Nana Patekar Quotes

I do this acting thing mostly for myself. I like to make a connection and communicate with the audience to make myself feel less lonely. I also do it to develop my own character, so sometimes I do it to just be away in a certain area that I've never been to. But mostly, the story has to do something for me.

One of the things I like about acting is that, in a funny way, I come back to myself.

I want to explore more sides of humanity and myself. That's what acting is about.

I've done teaching and things like that because if you're acting, you're becoming other human beings, and you need to have time to find who you are as well.

Acting was a way of me finding myself, which I think is the case of a lot of actors, regardless of where they come from.

Acting is what I do with who I am.

It's lovely to escape myself and play someone who actually inspires me and gives me strength.

It took living alone for me to really get to know myself.

There might be some hours of loneliness. But there was something wonderful even in loneliness. At least you belonged to yourself when you were lonely.

Woe unto him that is never alone, and cannot bear to be alone.

Our busy lives force us to focus on things we do from day to day. But the development of character comes only as we focus on who we really are.

I, who so love a hermit life for a good part of the day, find myself living in public, and almost losing my identity.

He who recites dramatic works makes discoveries about his own character.

Certain things are so important that they need to be discovered alone.

Keeping a diary is like closing your bedroom door and refusing to come out until dinnertime: it is a declaration of self.

It's so funny, you go to acting school thinking you're going to learn how to be other people, but really it taught me how to be myself. Because it's in understanding yourself deeply that you can lend yourself to another person's circumstances and another person's experience.

Each character represented a trait that resides in me.

So it is necessary that we should learn to be alone.

Getting close to books, and spending time by myself, I was obliged to think about things I would never have thought about if I was busy romping around with a brother and sister.

Acting is the greatest answer to my loneliness that I have found.

That's what I love about acting, you get to find little pieces of yourself in every character you play.

One of the greatest necessities in America is to discover creative solitude.

Through theater and acting school, I found a way to articulate myself.

Self-exploration is very painful, but unless you do that, you will never know who you are and who you want to be.

As an actor, I don't really think you find yourself. I mean, once you find yourself, I think it becomes boring and you become set in your ways. I think, as an actor I think it's not a bad thing but more of a gift. It's something you're always doing as an actor. You're adjusting constantly.