Anushka Shetty Quotes

Actors put ourselves in awkward positions all the time.

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.

As an actor, I love working with directors. As much as I love working with other actors.

I think one of the mistakes actors make is we're so focused on what we're going to say.

As an actor, being on autopilot is the worst thing possible.

I think when you're acting, you usually don't have to know too much beyond how to pronounce the words you're saying.

I'd always wanted to be an actress, and suddenly I knew that learning to control my facial muscles was one of the best assets I could have as a performer.

As an actor, I trust my ear.

I work with my acting coach to help me get into character and do pronunciation drills and tongue twisters to help me deliver lines.

When you work as an actor, you've got to feel safe even in what appears to be the simplest things.

Working with actors is something I've never done before. I find it tremendous. It's hard work.

One was never taught how to begin at drama school. But all it required was one intake of breath.

I can speak to actors in their terms. Knowing I was an actor, they relax. You can have the best shot in the world - but, at the center of it, you still need a good performance.

Any acting job that I ever got, I always treated it like I was a neophyte; I didn't know what I was doing, and I was going to work just as hard as I do on my stand-up.

I don't honestly think people know what acting is.

Mostly I work really unconsciously, and I think if the scenes are really well written, which they are, and if I just throw myself into it, I don't really think about it.

Most of my training at graduate school was geared towards drama, so I feel good about it, and I can do it, but it requires a lot more work from me. I feel like with drama... well, with all acting, really, you need to honor the truth of the situation.

I like to remind myself how hard acting is. I do parts in friends' stuff.

It's been about ten years since I've worked with actors who knew their lines!

I'm an actor and my job is to interpret.

There's always a sense of newness with acting, because every role, you come to every role fresh.

Frankly, acting doesn't scare me because I really enjoy it.

Talking to actors is the same as talking to any other artists; it's getting into the moment for them, and making sure they can lose themselves in the performance!

I think the toughest thing about being an actor in a film is to be with a director who doesn't know what they want. And that can be really, really frustrating.

Because I trained in theater, I always leave a film shoot feeling like I haven't done anything, like I just sat in front of the camera and whispered, essentially.