Akshaye Khanna Quotes

I think the most important thing for an actor is reading the script and trying to figure out if you can play that character well. The last thing on my mind is if the director made good movies previously. It's not my job to know if that director's last movie was any good - it's my job to know if I can play the role.

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

One of the exciting and enjoyable aspects of acting is being in the environment with another actor.

As an actor, you can steer a scene in another direction by playing it a little differently. And honestly? I like being an actor, and I want to keep having a career.

I think every actor would probably say that it's always a collaboration. And if you ask directors, they'll tell you that they expect the actors to bring something. They don't want to be thinking for everybody.

Sometimes, as an actor - and I've witnessed this with other actors that I've worked with - you don't realize that it's not all about the actor.

I'm not a trained actor. I surrender to my directors, and they make me act.

I'm the sort of actor who likes to talk about what we're going to do.

I used to joke I was a point-and-click actor. My whole process has been about trusting your instincts and hitting your mark.

It's very good for me to remember what actors go through.

I always think that the deal, once I do the script, sort of the experience I go through writing, which is everything you can imagine, but I always think it's the one thing I can do when I'm directing is say is that it's all about the actors, that I can say, 'We're all here to serve the actors.'

The way I choose parts is I look at the scripts... I choose a part by whether or not it challenges me.

What I always loved about theater is that that's an experience that a company of actors just sinks itself into for weeks, and you really get to work on the material, and by the time you're in front of an audience, you really own it.

The first time I thought I should be an actor was in school. I thought, 'At least this is something for which I won't have to study.' But I've realised that an actor needs to be constantly unsure about what he's doing and about what's going on around him. The moment you think you've nailed it, you're dead.

I'm an actor. Whether I'm on stage, in front of a camera or a microphone, what I do is the same - although with videogames it requires a lot of imagination.

As an actor, it's amazing to get to create different characters.

I just love the process of working with other actors.

As a director, it is important to understand the actor's process.

I'm definitely one of those actresses who comes to a set knowing how I want to do a scene, and I definitely love input from my directors and my writers.

I'm really a director's actor. I rely heavily on a director.

I have only one rule in acting - trust the director and give him heart and soul.

If a script is good, you are 10 steps into the part just reading it. But my choices are not all down to my taste. It is about people you have worked with before.

To be able to work with actors who are doing such good work, not only makes it easier for you, but it makes you better.

Stage acting is for me the basic form of acting. If you make films all the time, you have so few possibilities to rehearse. And it's important to rehearse, because it gives you the possibility to try things which are not good!

I'll read a script maybe twice, but I'll think about the role more than I'll rehearse lines.