Rani Mukerji Quotes

People ask me, 'How do you remember your lines?' That's nothing. That is the least of my concerns.

Drama is not hard for me. It just didn't seem hard.

As an actor, you know there are things you get asked to do that you do quite well, with less effort.

A role like I had on 'Parks and Rec,' to me, is very easy to understand, and that's something that I can do with my eyes closed.

The only thing that's required of an actor for an audition is to memorize your sides with confident choices, and then the rest is not up to you. You're either right for a part or you're not.

I talked to friends who are actors and who do Shakespeare loads, and they all said 'learn it so that your family wants to clobber you, they're so bored.' You can never relax, that's the problem, because when you do, a bit of Shakespeare comes up to bite your cheeky behind. It just does, if you're not really focused on it.

Acting is always hard.

I am a different person in front of the camera; it comes as easy to me as breathing does.

For any role, I pretty much always go to the script, first and foremost.

When you get to the point where you know the material so well and you know the character so well that you can just sort of play off of whoever your reader is - that's the best feeling at an audition.

Acting isn't that hard, really. I mean, I think that people make a big deal about it, but you just kind of try to say your lines naturally.

Sometimes the hardest part I think for actors on '24' is some of the jargon and getting the ideas and the thoughts and the information out quickly enough and succinctly enough and clearly enough.

There are two main jobs in acting - the first one is to be a good actor, and the second one is to convince everyone that you're a good actor.

This acting was very hard work.

To have an opportunity to get in front of a camera every single day is just priceless because it gets you closer and closer to being less self-consciousness in front of it and really being human and really making choices and standing by them.

Got through it without fluffing, that's the main thing any actor can hope for.

Good acting is about being as natural and calm as possible. These days producers have such definite ideas that you have to be prepared to do whatever they ask.

There's nowhere to hide in the theatre. You can't be the one in rehearsal who doesn't know their lines.

I've never found acting that difficult.

I used to teach kids when I was younger. When I was about 14 or 15 I started teaching children drama and something that I used to say to them was, 'Don't be afraid.' People would be afraid of forgetting their lines or something.

What I do is just go over and over and over my lines and learn the script so well that I can just be easy and relaxed. That's the way I always work.

I don't have any training as an actor, but I guess I'm an intense pretender. When you read something over and over, it gets into you a little bit. You can't help but begin to feel it, even if you're a healthy person as I think I am.

In order to be an actor you really have to be one of those types of people who are risk-takers and have what is considered an actor's arrogance, which is not to say an arrogance in your personal life. But you have to be the type of person who wants the ball with seconds left in the game.

An actor's life is like a series of - it's like the first day of school happening over and over again.

Acting is the only thing I'm even vaguely good at and acting is something that I think I do know about.