Indira Varma Quotes

The one thing for an actor that is complete death is if you're bored, because that boredom will show in your work.

Now that I'm acting, I've realized that I don't have a lot of barriers. Certain actors have a hard time with anger or with joy or with whatever, and, I don't know, I don't seem to have those barriers.

As actors, when we keep working every day, after a point of time, we just know all our emotional cards and how to play them.

I'm not going to get better as an actor working on bad stuff.

I have just gained a deeper and deeper respect for acting and the whole art of it because you're really trying to live a life and to do the best justification for it.

Like any other actor, I draw on life experience.

Movie acting is about covering the machinery. Stage acting is about exposing the machinery. In cinema, you should think the actor is playing himself, if he's that good. It looks very easy. It should. But it's not, I assure you.

There's something about actors - not stars, but actors - if they have the character, and someone is pushing and shoving them to be the best they can be, they enjoy that.

If you only live in the world of the actor, and if you only live in the world of auditions, etc., then you don't really have a whole lot to offer when it comes to playing the humans that you're trying to audition for.

I feel that one of the hardest things in acting is the way you need to switch your emotions.

It's a really good format to have, to go back to theatre and build yourself as an actor. I think it's a great skill to go from screen to stage.

It's funny because, if you're not an actor, people always tend to say, 'How do you memorize all those lines? Is that really hard?' I'm always like, 'That's just a small part of it. I have to seek my craft and my emotions' - you know, all this gross, actor-y stuff.

I think with every part you do, you become a better actor. I've learned from my experiences on that.

I was always under the impression that acting is an innate gift. One of the first things I heard them say at Koothu-P-Pattarai was that actors should realise the art of acting through their training.

An actor's job is to find variations of the same emotion in his being so that every time he expresses grief or joy, it doesn't look the same.

I think an actor without life experiences is empty.

Emotional power is maybe the most valuable thing that an actor can have.

I think in any form of acting, you're always well served if you've done theater.

Film acting is really the trick of doing moments. You rarely do a take that lasts more than 20 seconds. You really earn your spurs acting onstage. I needed to do that for myself. I would hate to say at the end of everything that I never did a stage play.

So many actors get caught up in their technique, and to be honest, I see it really getting in the way. I see them forcing things. I definitely do my best work when I'm free of that. But I think as an actor, I work really hard in preparing the roles.

I don't sit around with other actors and talk about the pain and the magic of acting.

Sometimes I think of movie acting as advanced pretend.

As an actor, I've grown considerably. It's taken me years to get comfortable doing a romantic scene and dancing on stage in front of a live audience. I've really opened up a lot.

I love to take actors to a place where they open a vein. That's the job. The key is that I make it safe for them to open the vein.

I think you can really tell a good actor if you can put a camera on them and they can just talk and emote and react and you don't have to keep cutting away from them, because they are the language and the behavior. It's all a tour-de-force performance.