I knew I wanted to be an actor when I was growing up, really. So when I decided to go to university instead of drama school, it was with the intention of becoming an actor afterwards.
After being signed for 'Madras Cafe,' I joined Jogi Singh's acting classes, where I learned the basic nuances.
I always wanted to be an actor, so I began to prepare myself for a career in acting. I did a course at Kishore Namit Kapoor's acting school. I was with Shiamak Davar's dance school and also did theatre with Nadira Babbar.
The most dramatic moves I have made as an actor have been from stage to screen and from sitcom to drama.
So anyway, I've learned a lot about myself just in terms of acting but just work ethic and interesting things like full-page monologues or talking straight into camera, which I had never gotten to do before.
I've had plenty of lessons about film acting and theatre acting.
I've learnt that there's acting for film, acting for theatre, and acting for an audition.
Stage actors are usually much more conscious of speaking up and making sure that everyone can hear in the back of the theatre; a film actor probably thinks of that a little less.
I like everything about acting.
I didn't study interviews. I studied acting.
I love acting and the whole idea of being in front of the camera.
I never thought I was going to be an actor.
I had gone to acting school for years. It was the kind of thing I had studied to do. I had worked with good coaches and trained to do this my whole life: to be a realistic actress capable of doing truthful work.
Coming from theater, and having been to acting school, and done little, small Australian independent movies, a lot of the time, it's always about character.
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.
I don't mind talking about acting. I don't have anything interesting to say about it, but it's interesting talking about it.
I did 10 years on 'Sopranos,' but the whole craft of acting is relatively new to me. I'm still learning that, and I'll be learning that forever.
I had acting teachers, and one of the things that was encouraged was to keep it fresh, to be spontaneous. That's the magic of film often.
Why do you act? You act for an audience. In the theatre, you're in their presence. Film stars don't know what it is to have an audience.
Drama school is fundamentally practical. I didn't write any essays, so I came out with a BA honors degree in acting.
What I really want to be is an actor.
I was probably 34 when I got my first on-camera acting job, and it was through a friend of mine, who was working as a writer on the show, and I've never been more frightened in my life.
When you work with actors, what you're hoping to absorb is good ways to be an actor as opposed to how to handle being famous.
A part of me always wanted to be an actor.
If there's a scene in which I need to cry or emote heavily, I just take care of it during the dubbing sessions.
