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It was in India that I started my acting career, courtesy of my parents, long before I set foot on stage in England. They headed a company of travelling players performing Shakespeare up and down the land.
Acting is different from mental gymnastics. You try to discover as much about the character as you can, but a large area is mysterious.
I love just about every aspect of the filmmaking except acting. I would never be able to do that, but the rest I really enjoy.
I had given up on acting because I would go for auditions every day, but nothing would happen.
When I was growing up, I thought I was getting bored of acting, so I left that. Then after a few years, I started missing it. I left my studies mid-way, and I used to give lots of auditions.
After so many years of rejection, I felt acting would have to become a hobby rather than a full-time profession.
I was about to give up acting when I got the call about being short-listed for 'Dangal.'
Although I started off as a child artist, I left acting in between, as I felt that I was missing the fun of school days. But a little later, I became keen on acting again and started going for auditions.
I enrolled in an acting workshop and my first acting role was on the TV soap opera 'Melrose Place.'
When I began acting, my biggest fear was whether the audience will appreciate the kind of films I do.
In Malayalam, I can improvise, and acting is easy because I think in Malayalam, but for 'Velaikkaran,' I had to prepare for a role, which is a first for me.
My mom was a huge fan of 'Dirty Dancing.' I couldn't quite get a break, and she was like, 'Patrick Swayze was a dancer!' And Fred Astaire. I started dancing, and it led me to acting. It helps with fighting or whatever choreography in general.
Some lucky people can be funny without half trying because they actually look funny, because acting funny is in their bones - fun as funny, not funny as crude slapstick.
At school there was no acting to be had other than school plays which I did now and again.
From there I did a one year theatre acting course in Fife, and then three years of drama school in London.
I love acting and don't find it to be very hard. I recognize when I've nailed it, and I can be very proud of myself.
I find that the acting's getting easier - with experience, everything is more instinctual.
I came to acting as a sort of fluke. I really enjoy it, but I think I'm different from the people who dreamed about it.
It wasn't like a Maths test where I have to strain to get it right. I feel very close to Luna so acting her was just natural. And if I had got too nervous I'd have done terribly.
I grew up in St. Louis, Missouri. I lived in Grand Blanc, Michigan for a year and that's when I got involved in acting and took classes there. A manager who saw me at the agency I was at in Michigan wanted me to come out to L.A.
I'm not the best actor I can be, so I'm just working on it. I'm not the quickest reader in the world but when I get an acting book I can read it in two days.
I started acting, when I was 15, in commercials and guest roles. I was definitely a working actor, so I was thankful for that. But I never had to work at a store, although I would have liked to.
In the ring, you're constantly working out and honing your craft, and you're doing the same thing with acting, too - taking classes and working with vocal coaches.
My mom was a soap opera queen in Mexico and Latin America. I started acting because of her.
The great thing about acting is that you get to be a lot of different things in one lifetime. You get to explore different personalities and characters.
I'm acting when I serve as a hostess, when I run my wig business. I was born to act, and life itself is the greatest part.
I have no acting technique I act instinctively. That's why I can't play any role that isn't based on something in my life.
I was home-schooled. But going to high school, I never would've been able to travel the U.S. or been able to do acting.
I think acting is definitely the most fulfilling, because it's the most challenging in my mind.
I want a TV series, I'm gonna do some acting jobs, I'm gonna do some Broadway jobs, everything!
When I finally decided that my only hope was to go to college, I took an acting class, and once I walked onstage, I just knew I was home.
I was mainly a stage actor. I found film acting mechanical, because it was so technical - there was so much technique with the lamps and the movements of the camera.
Acting has been my life since I was five, and everything has just fallen into place. I've never had to push and shove.
I would love to work with the Coen brothers and Terrence Malick. I love both of their bodies of work so much, so I'm really interested in acting under their direction.
I love low-budget projects with great acting and great stories you can really get your teeth into.
I liked acting early on, and I really liked roles that were meaningful to me, and 'Baywatch' was.
I grew up in Vancouver and my father drove me to every single one of my acting lessons, auditions, and jobs.
Probably one of the most surreal moments of my career was acting in front of Notre Dame with a mime.
I started acting when I was in high school, started writing when I got to New York in 1975.
I'd make a lousy cop. I'd just wear it too close to my skin and wouldn't survive. I'll stick to acting.
My first two or three films, all I was trying to do was look cool. That's all I knew acting was.
Everyone's inspired by Brando. When I started acting, my dad showed me 'On the Waterfront,' and I thought, 'That's the coolest guy I've ever seen.'
Acting is not glamorous. It's not. Anybody who wants to get into acting for the glamour is in for a hard time.
My sister Mathilde is an actress, but more like a French Jennifer Aniston. She's famous just in France. She's very commercial and does big comedies. So, acting was part of my family, and that's how I was raised.
I'd love to do something totally different on TV like a period drama, but if I did go back to soap acting, then it would have to be with 'EastEnders.' I just couldn't go anywhere else.
I felt like the news business was a little rough for me and a little sleazy. So I glided right over into acting.
I was real into theater, and then I tried soccer, acting and ballet. Both my parents didn't want a child-star model, so I didn't get into modeling until I was 14.
I signed with an acting agent first; I wasn't really interested in signing with a modeling agent. But that same day, they said, 'You should go over to Ford.'
I know a lot of parents of kid actors I've worked with have pressured them into acting, but my parents are different. I'm really lucky to have them because they let me make my own decisions.
When I moved to L.A. and joined East West Players, I started acting professionally.
All of the press and stuff - that's the scary stuff. The acting is what I got trained to do.
Drama school is fundamentally practical. I didn't write any essays, so I came out with a BA honors degree in acting.
I try to be the best version of me that I can be, whether it's acting or on a personal level.
We can list a bunch of actors who have embodied characters that aren't their nationalities, and I think that's the beauty of acting.
Natalie Portman's approach to acting demands that she wears her heart on her sleeve so explicitly, the heart becomes the whole garment - a crimson chemise with streaks of blue veins running across it.
Stewart's interest in serious acting gives her something in common with Theron - and, like Theron, some of her most provocative work has come through working with women.
The ultimate goal is to change Syria's behaviour on a variety of issues - on its interference in Lebanese internal affairs, on its support for Palestinian terrorist groups that oppose the Palestinian Authority, on, most importantly, acting as a land bridge between Iran and Hezbollah, where Hezbollah gets all its arms.
Acting is very physical, even when it doesn't appear to be. It's about the arc of your body's language through a film.
I just want to keep being creative, and I want to feel inspired by a role, and I want to keep acting.
In an ideal world, I'd like to carry on acting, but I don't want it to interfere with my studies.
I'm very fortunate that I really like acting, but it's not all I want to do. I love to sing. I love blues. I love jazz.
I was very angsty from a very young age. The way people start acting when they're 15, I started being at 8.
I would like to continue acting. But also - if this is a dream world where everything could become true - I'd want to be a ballerina.
I'll always have acting. But then if I had to choose something else it'd probably be singing or dancing - if I had to. Or maybe, like, designer, like sketching designs.
I sort of make believe. That's why I like acting. You can create or imagine anything.
Well my taste wasn't very good when I first started out. But later, when I began to appreciate the art of acting, I would say the actress I most admire is Vanessa Redgrave.
I never had any preconceived ideas about acting, because I always thought I was going to be a visual artist.
I find acting conservatories really important. I've gone to four different ones, and all of them provided totally different tools for me.
It's easy to play a bad girl: You just do everything you've been told not to do, and you don't have to deal with the consequences, because it's only acting.
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