Acting Quotes
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I grew up dancing my whole life, and I always kind of perceived that's what I would do professionally. But when I caught the acting bug, I knew I needed to go with no turning back.
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I don't see my dancing or acting as two separate things. I don't define them separately, so I can't say one has helped the other, It's all the same thing. More than anything I love being on stage and performing.
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When I started acting, I was told over and over again, 'You're no good.' But I said to myself, 'You've got to keep it up.'
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I feel like acting is a ton of fun. It's the freest and most alive you can be.
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A lot of what acting is paying attention.
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I don't think you have to be in these serious, heavy, independent little movies to be an actor. Some of the most interesting acting I've seen is on cable television.
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I was going to try to get into the creative writing program at Berkeley; it's just that the acting thing worked out.
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Acting is about going into the space, and there are just some places that I'm not willing to go.
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Anjelica Huston and Kelly MacDonald are both really special. Anjelica has such a fresh point of view about acting and doesn't seem jaded at all. She seems more like a student and yet she is veteran actor who really brings it.
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What's interesting about the process of acting is how often you don't know what you're doing.
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Acting is an aesthetic career, which is annoying.
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Whenever you're in any acting role you are mortgaging your own character.
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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.
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Acting is a form of confusion.
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I have learned that acting is not about beauty.
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It is so funny because I was always embarrassed because I never had formal training in acting.
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You know, acting is very fascinating. But being an actress is not, because you become so concentrated on yourself.
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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.
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The eyes are the windows of your soul, and when you're acting, they're one of your most important instruments. Especially for close-ups!
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I had an agent in Salt Lake City, but acting was more like a hobby.
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Acting is a form of confession.
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I never wanted to be a model. My modelling career was nothing but a stepping stone to my acting career and that's all I ever saw it as. A pointless rock in the river that has to be stepped on in order to get to the meaningful oasis of acting.
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I never consciously got into comedy. It was sort of one of those things where I was a theater student, I was acting, I was doing comedy, I was doing dramatic stuff, so it's been something that I've always done and enjoyed doing and had an instinct to be relatively good at.
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Balancing my career between two industries has never been an issue. I started with a Telugu film and have a soft corner for the south industry, though I've grown up speaking Hindi. I don't think language can be a barrier when it comes to acting. And, since I come from a theatre background, I'm used to memorizing my lines.
