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When I joined the industry, people were not very appreciative of models turning to acting.
Botox should be banned for actors, as steroids are for sportsmen. Acting is all about expression; why would you want to iron out a frown?
When someone praises me for some speech uploaded on YouTube, I politely tell them I've been acting for many years.
I used to represent Mount Carmel College in cultural activities, and a friend in the team told me to try my hand at acting.
Sometimes I wonder why I'm not working at McDonald's and how come I have the life I have. I don't know. But I'm happy that I have these choices. That's kinda sappy, huh? But whatever, acting beats pumping gas.
I've done teaching and things like that because if you're acting, you're becoming other human beings, and you need to have time to find who you are as well.
I thought there would be a lot of , you know, transferable skills, from acting and comedy, but there weren't that many!
Acting was not on my radar ever, but after shooting my first film, I have realised that this is my calling.
Radha Krishna Sir, the director of 'Jil,' had seen 'Madras Cafe' and liked my acting in it. He wanted a performer and so got me on board.
If this whole acting thing doesn't work out, I'll just get a talk show.
But acting just sort of happened and I found that I loved it. It was such a challenge.
I used to do school plays. I never really took any acting classes. I'm just a natural ham, I guess.
Acting in two films would mean four months of the year, which would leave eight months for me, and if Bollywood needs that time from me, I am ready to give it a shot.
I've grown up in Mumbai, did college from Mumbai, many colleges, actually - Jai Hind, Ruia, Andrews, Wilson, Whistling Woods... Then I worked as a production assistant with Prahlad Kakar, and then I started acting.
Acting can truly take a toll on your nerves. I mean, we have to be larger than life. Worse, I've seen actors acting off the sets, too.
We need to stop talking and start acting, and I am more than eager to be part of that change.
I stumbled into acting and just loved it. I deferred law school-and I'm still deferred.
The first time my parents found out I was acting was when a friend told them they had just come back from a play I was in.
The people of God want pastors, not clergy acting like bureaucrats or government officials.
I agree with Marjorie Rosen's good psychological analysis of my acting ability.
I dropped the script in the fireplace, called my agent and said, they can jail me, sue me, but I'm never acting again, unless I can do something worthwhile.
Acting allows me to explore new worlds, to discover characters by delving into their lives, and ultimately to become someone else entirely.
Acting for the Indian audience is surely on my bucket list; it may take some time, though.
When I began to direct, I discovered that I was much more comfortable than I was acting.
Modeling teaches you to be completely conscious of the camera. Acting is being totally unconscious of it.
I don't get nervous when I'm directing a play. It's not like acting.
My acting career began when I walked into a drama school class run by Anna Scher in Islington. Anna discovered a lot of people: Linda Robson, Pauline Quirke, Gary and Martin Kemp, and Dexter Fletcher were among my contemporaries.
Acting is a tough industry. There are a lot of kids out there at drama schools and not a lot of money about, especially as the arts are being cut.
I started when I was four because I had asked my parents, I begged them, 'Can I do acting? I really want to do this!' and they let me do it, so that's pretty much how I got started.
To me, the most important thing in life is to be a human being. Second is acting.
We don't think of them as acting, but we take on certain characteristics based on where we function, and those relationships draw out aspects of who we are as people. And that's what acting is. Different parts draw out different parts of your nature.
If all the circumstances of acting are made to easy, then there's no grain of sand to make the pearl.
Well, a deficit reflects an imbalance between spending and revenue, and so narrowing it requires acting on one, the other or both.
I went whole hog at the actor's lifestyle - really embraced it. I had by then known how much I loved acting already, because I discovered acting from a teacher in the seminary - that's the first place I ever did it, in the seminary.
If tough old Lefty Helen Mirren can warm towards the Crown after impersonating Her Majesty, who's next? Since reigning and acting have so much in common, it's surprising all actors aren't fervent royalists.
I do figure every angle of a guy I'm acting - but not consciously 'til afterward.
I got a regret: That I started acting so late. I was 27, and guys who start at 18 or so, there's this kinda continuity of friendships they form in the profession by startin' young, I've never had that.
I never really think of acting and directing as being separate; they are just different expressions of the same thing.
When I was acting, I was always asking abut the mechanics of filmmaking. I decided I would learn what everyone on set was doing, so I would feel less threatened.
I stopped acting a long time ago and my primary career has been producing-directing film.
I found at a certain point in my acting career that I was just bored. I had too much energy. I had too many ideas.
I find talking about acting very boring, having to come out with platitudes about how terribly nice everyone is. I would much rather just do it.
It is really funny to see people that you know acting unpleasantly just because there are TV cameras on.
In acting class, I used to hide in the corner and pray the teacher wouldn't call on me.
When I started performing, I decided that if in five years I couldn't earn as much money acting as I could as a teacher, it would be unrealistic for me to continue on the stage.
What I love most is the art, is making art, acting and being on set, and being a part of the process of making a movie.
I don't know, I don't enjoy the business bit of it at all. Anything that's not the acting. It's all sort of like pulling teeth.
My parents never looked at my acting as a career. They saw it as a way to help provide for the household.
I've always really respected directors. As much as I was interested in acting, whenever I watched a film, it was always the directing that really stood out to me.
Acting is the hardest job in the entire world. By far. Harder than ditch digging.
And after you've done the acting, there's a lot of places you can put your input - in the editing, in the production of it, in the rewriting of it and so on.
If a person is in front of a camera, they're acting. It's not possible to live in front of a camera.
Actors should be instinctive and spontaneous. If you think about acting, you're not going to be good.
I've never tried to learn the art of acting. I have been in the business for years but I still can't tell what acting is or how it's done.
The one thing that's closest to my story is the thing about trying out for the juvenile delinquent role and getting it. That was the start of my acting career... which I've resumed, by the way.
Strive to be authentic all the time. That's sort of my philosophy on life, which applies to acting.
I never felt Lee Strasberg could act, and I fail to see how someone who can't act can teach acting.
In my years of acting, the one thing I was never able to do convincingly was to laugh on camera. Fake-laugh.
I'm glad I took the leap away from acting into going behind the camera because it's much more satisfying - I love acting and I still do, but it's much more satisfying to be able to make the stuff.
I started acting pretty young, so I haven't had too many odd jobs. But I used to sell candy out of my locker in middle school.
It's hard to talk about acting because I don't think it's quite as explicit as a lot of people might think. And that's probably the best thing about it.
The trouble with talking about acting is that it's like sex. It's enormously fun to do but just dreadfully embarrassing when you have to talk about it.
For a while, I stopped enjoying making movies and I stopped enjoying acting, because I made a few decisions that I wish I hadn't made.
With acting, you see some of the kids are literally just off the street, untrained, and they are great. And others are off the street, untrained, and kind of horrible.
I'm going to continue to try to strike a balance, because I really, really do love doing stand-up, and I don't see why it should affect the acting.
I went to acting school, but only for nine months. If you're an actor, you know, don't really need to learn how to do it.
So I find the fascination, the love, the incredible skill and everything to do with acting, writing plays, and doing them, just darling. Lovely. I love actors.
I fell in love with acting, just going to a lot of plays. My parents went to a lot of plays, and I went to a lot of schools that would get plays for kids.
Drama is easier to do because you just have to have the emotion and not get caught acting, but comedy is much harder.
I worked with my dad for 15 years. I apprenticed under him and decided I wanted to become an architect. So I went to college for it and then the acting bug got me.
I didn't make a decision not to be married and not to be a mother - life just turned out like that because my involvement in acting was so total.
If it seems like you're doing work when you're acting, then you're doing something wrong.
That's what I like about acting. When you're preparing for a role, you do your research, and the bonus is you get to learn these skills. Now, it's on to whatever the next thing is I have to learn.
I really identified with Jess, because my own dream was acting, which isn't the most conventional profession.
I would want the audience to simply see the character I portray in each movie in its true essence because I feel acting is all about truthfully portraying the character.
My talent is universal, and acting is a craft that can be used anywhere, unless ethnicity comes into play, and then, looks matter.
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