Rashami Desai Quotes

Being an actor is really, really hard, no matter how you slice it.

As actors, we're always asked to portray and react to these extreme circumstances, otherwise it's not interesting. They are agonizing things to think about.

The life of an actor lends itself to emotion, and yet you have to be tough as old boots to stay at the table.

Being an actor is not like any other job. It's not easy.

One of the most difficult things I find as an actor is to laugh on cue. It is way harder than crying or other emotions. It's sometimes harder than yawning on cue.

Theatre is difficult. It's not that I'm afraid of doing 'one takes' or shots, but it's about being able to live one character for several hours on a daily basis!

I'd also like to do a play. I've never done theater, and constantly changing and refining a performance is something I'd like to do, even though it may sound like work to some people - and it probably is work.

This acting was very hard work.

Having done a lot of theater, I'm used to sustaining characters over long periods of time.

Acting is not glamorous. It's not. Anybody who wants to get into acting for the glamour is in for a hard time.

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

It's a surprisingly sacrificial job being an actor.

When you audition for shows in Hollywood, you go in, you do your scene, maybe you get an adjustment. It's sort of easy, and a lot of times it just feels sort of rote and simple. Whereas when you go to New York and you audition for plays, you walk out sweaty and intimidated and nervous and doubting yourself as an actor.

I was a repertory actor, which meant that I did a play every week. I was a different character every week; for a year, I was doing 40 or 50 characters.

Acting and modeling have nothing to do with each other.

I sometimes think the theatre is more demanding because it requires things you don't have in films, like it requires you to make the people in the front row believe you and not look an idiot to them while the people right at the back can hear you.

Soaps are the best. They really are. If you can do a soap, well, you can do anything. You have to learn pages of dialogue very quickly.

As an actor, you should be willing to take challenges.

Very little gets offered to me. I have to audition and bawl my eyes out. For 'Broadchurch,' the scene was Danny lying on the mortuary table. I can't remember the last audition I had where I didn't come out drenched in sweat, puffy-eyed.

You'll never see a good performance out of me, in terms of a character, when the camera isn't rolling.

In theater, you're allowed to take your time and sit in a role for a month before you have to share it with anybody. In film and TV, you have to just kind of show up and be ready to do that, which, to me, is very strange and crazy.

Really, for an actor, it's all about remembering a lot of stuff - and keeping the moustache on.

The entertainment industry, in particular, is all about communication and being aware of what's going on, which can take over an actor's life.

From the time I was five years old, theater was all I knew. I did community theater; I went to theater school. It's like going to the gym as an actor: every single night, you have to recreate the illusion of the first time, so you really have to listen and connect and stay in the moment for an hour and a half - with no breaks.

Trying to get over to the 'on camera' side of things has been hard work.