Rajkummar Rao Quotes
After my schooling, I started theatre. By the time I graduated, I was doing theatre 24x7. Luckily, the FTII (Film and Television Institute of India) acting course started.
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I had an agent in Salt Lake City, but acting was more like a hobby.
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The last time I had to make a career decision, I was 17. I could have gone to Ballet Theatre or National Ballet of Canada. There were options. But as I became exposed to the Robbins repertoire, I realized that there was a living genius in the house.
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It's a scary thing going into the workforce with a $50,000 debt and you've been trained as a classical theatre actor. There's always a depression in the theatre.
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I started in theatre. I went to the Boston Conservatory and majored in musical theater.
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I think three or four years ago, people would have said my biggest weakness was that sometimes I was awkward on television, with my stammer, but I think they'd say that much less now.
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I've been acting since I could function. I got into acting to get attention as a child.
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I love the idea of metamorphosing and changing, the legalized insanity of acting.
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Something I learned in the Marine Corps that I've applied to acting is, one, taking direction, and then working with a group of people to accomplish a mission and knowing your role within that team.
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Real acting is about giving people an insight into a person, letting the audience in.
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I also want to get out there in the world and do some acting and fashion and modeling.
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When strangers start acting like neighbors... communities are reinvigorated.
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Periodically over the years I've always taken periods of time away from acting.
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I've been acting my whole life. I have this huge imagination! I'm a dancer and my mom's a dance teacher, and I was always performing and entertaining people. I'd go to see live theatre or a movie, and I'd become the main character for a few days afterwards. I loved being somebody new for a temporary amount of time.
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I love acting. It is so much more real than life.
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The philosophy of Buddhism is connected to everything. So it probably does have some connection with acting, yes.
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I find in film acting that however many years you have done it for, you can feel totally relaxed and at ease with the people around you, absolutely wonderful, then roll camera and a little part of you goes, 'Ugh'. It is learning how to manage that.
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My father is an actor, and I used to go on set to visit him. I saw the stories he was telling and said: 'That's what I want to do.' I was always in awe whenever I went to the movies or when I watched television.
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I think I'm kind of attracted to the material more than the medium. I'm not opposed to doing a television show, though. I actually think there are a couple of good ones. And there is some terrible theater. Film is a very different kind of acting.
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A lot of my training is in classical theatre; I've done a lot of classical plays in New York and also at the Guthrie and here and there across the country.
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I've been propositioned by men who were in a position to cast me. I lost a few roles because I didn't give in.
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I cannot always control what goes on outside. But I can always control what goes on inside.
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Thinking begins only when we have come to know that reason, glorified for centuries, is the stiff-necked adversary of thought.
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After my schooling, I started theatre. By the time I graduated, I was doing theatre 24x7. Luckily, the FTII (Film and Television Institute of India) acting course started.
