When I was seven, I had been very vocal about wanting to be an actor. And my mom decided that we would try it out for a couple weeks and come to L.A. from Sacramento.
Being an actor, you have to be working even when you're not working. You never really get to relax because anytime you're relaxing in between jobs, you're just worried that you're not going to get another job.
I have been pregnant in so many movies it's ridiculous.
After graduating, I began auditioning for films while continuing to model. I did a few fashion shows, ad shoots, and even got a few Bollywood offers, but nothing great.
Being an actor in L.A. is like being in prison: you go, you serve your time, you try to replicate Johnny Depp's career - and then you move to Paris.
At 19, I got signed up for commercials, it was easy money.
I did nine months in 'Mrs. Klein' in New York, then four months on the road. Then I did a movie directed by Philip Haas, who did 'Angels & Insects'. We shot 'The Blood Oranges' in Mexico for six weeks.
I was an actor... or, at least, I was trying to be an actor.
I'm trying to be a working actor. I'm not in pursuit of fame. I'm not trying to be in the kinds of films that make you famous like that.
I had never imagined that after coming to Mumbai that, as an actor, my dates would be booked in six-eight months in advance.
I just wanted to be a guy who could earn a living as an actor, and I did that for a long time.
Well, I was getting a lot of money then, and I wasn't getting any Hollywood films, so I just did those. I'd always do a play in between. Whenever I ran low on funds, I'd always rush off to do a movie somewhere.
It was hard to make a living as an actor in New York if you did not do soap operas or commercials.
A lot of people are attracted to the acting profession because they think it's a cheap, easy, free ride. It really isn't.
I still do commercial work as an actor, which I love, because it's very quick, and it definitely pays my bills.
I'm very much a jobbing actor who's still trying to find a place to rent down the road.
The first part of my career, how I was paying the bills was commercials. I was just doing tons of commercials.
The biggest challenge to being an actor is, when you're not working, just being unemployed: the downtime and not having anything to do.
As an actor, I'm always just so pumped when I get any job. To be a working actor takes a lot of luck.
I'm a working actor. I don't make my own work, so it's the opportunities that are presented to me.
I did as much theater as I could. I worked at a theme park and a Bible theater and a community theater.
Being on a TV show is a really good gig for an actor.
If you want to be an actor and you love acting, you can do it whether you're doing something else or not. You can be connected with community theater or make your own little movies. But if you want to be a movie star, you've got a tough road ahead of you.
I did some British TV and bits and bobs here and there. I've been lucky.
I've called myself an actor - I won't say I've been an actor, but I've called myself an actor - since 1989. That's when I moved to Los Angeles.
