Sayani Gupta Quotes

Our intention is to develop music, theatre and exhibition activities on the Far Eastern regions.

What I love is a good role. In the theatre, there is just a canon of extraordinary roles, the quality of character is amazing, but I also love working in front of a camera. It was the first one for me; as a kid I was in front of a camera. I feel at home.

The arts have always been in and around my life.

When I was in college, all the pretty women were in the theatre, so I auditioned for a play.

I like to go to openings when I'm in it, or friends are in it.

In college, I started out doing musicals and Shakespeare.

I'd seen a play of 'Richard III' in Coventry when I was 15, which sowed the seeds that you could act for a living.

I was a musical theatre geek in high school and college.

When I was in my freshman year at college I took some acting classes and found that I fell in love with it again.

I love going to see the theatre whether it's a Broadway play or a Russian ballet company.

My family was never cultural in that we never went to see plays, my mum wasn't very into films.

My mother asks when I will do some theatre, and there is something about getting your 15 minute call. That is what you become an actor for - performing in front of people and getting the love from the audience.

When I get some down time on the weekends, I love gallery hopping with friends, in particular checking out Gagosian Galleries - between the three in N.Y.C., there's always a great show on or something cool to see.

I almost never go to the theatre without seeing someone I've taught or known at Juilliard.

My whole family is very artistic - my uncles are all actors and theatre directors.

I was called to audition for a play when I was very young, following which I continued to act as well as write and direct. When I moved to Delhi and joined Hindu College, theatre became a very big part of my life.

Having started out in theatre, I feel an impulse to do it as much as I can.

I don't care about the Guggenheim. The Guggenheim isn't involved in anything that I am interested in. I don't care about motorcycles and Armani suits.

I was five when I did my first show with the Mountain Play Theatre company in Marin County. I started young, and since no one in my family was involved in the industry in any way shape or form, I think everyone thought I'd do a few plays and that would be it. But then I kept doing it.

I was mad about the theatre growing up, really mad. We had a local theatre, the Torch, and I used to usher there. I would see the shows over and over again.

When I was going through school, I joined the Lyceum Youth Theatre, and that kind of cemented it. Through being in and around the building and watching shows, I realised that there was something I really loved about it, so I went into the stage management side.

My grandparents met each other in amateur theatre. My uncle is an actor.

Acting was always my unscratched itch, when I was in college and even afterwards.

I don't go to enough exhibitions, purely because it intimidates me.

I remember auditioning for 'Moulin Rouge!,' the part that Ewan McGregor played. I was so young: I was literally just out of college.