Radhika Apte Quotes

My work is to reach people with ideas, hopes, dreams, encouragement, insight, and revelation. That's what an actor wants to do.

More than anything, what we do as actors is to sit and watch, and I would never want to get so lost in the celebrity bubble I couldn't do that because my feet no longer touch the ground.

The reason you want to act is to continue to explore every different part of the human psyche.

For a writer, they say write what you know. As a performer, you find it in yourself, in your heart. You relate to the character. You try to live it, try to have it be real for you.

Sometimes acting is really cool because it forces you to exercise certain muscles in your personality that you wouldn't normally be called upon in life.

One of the reasons I love acting is because I'm so interested in other people's lives, and I often incorporate things I hear or observe into my work. I've become a bit of a 'person addict,' and so I like brushing up against lots of different characters.

For a writer it's a dream to sit and watch people as close as possible.

The whole thing about acting, the draw for me, is the opportunity to do things you don't get to do in real life.

A passion for any novel, and any character, can crystallise your ideas when you really need to be as open as possible as a performer.

When you're an actor or any kind of artist, you use your life as something to draw from in every experience.

I love the process of discovering a new world - that's why I'm passionate about acting. It's just discovering life, feelings, ideas and thought.

I use so much of myself in everything I do. I think every actor does because you have no one else to go to but yourself and your own imagination.

I love the possibility that anything can happen in any moment with acting. That you have the opportunity to experience lives and adventures that you may not have otherwise.

At a young age, acting was so inspiring and exciting, because to me it was play - make-believe, pretend.

The interesting thing about acting is using all your own stuff and having some kind of personal catharsis while you're working.

The magic doesn't come from within the director's mind, it comes from within the hearts of the actors.

I'm an actor. I love to create.

What made me fall in love with acting, which is my life, was watching other people perform. It made me hunger to do that.

I try not to think of actors as I'm writing because I think you do them a disservice by writing for things they've already done.

To me acting originally became an extension of game playing.

Actors are such wonderful creatures and such wonderful instruments. It's always different on the page or in my head. I hear it differently. I see it differently. And then, you give it to an actor, and it comes alive in a way that you didn't expect.

Anything negative that happens to you in life can be turned into a positive as far as acting is concerned. You can draw on your experiences - it's far better than any research.

It's what still excites me most about acting: letting your imagination go places it's never been before. There's nothing better than that.

For me, when I do my best acting, it's mainly imagination. Then I really have a lot of fun with it.

I enjoy acting, and I appreciate people who have passion about what they're doing and have a vision about the film they're trying to make.