Radhika Apte Quotes

I'm an actor. I love to create.

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

Film acting is one of the only industries where you're criticized for working hard. In any other industry, it's considered a quality and something to behold.

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

I took acting lessons when I was 19, 20, and I had my writing.

I do not use any set methods, not even The Method. The character after all is in the lines.

Sometimes I think of movie acting as advanced pretend.

I'm an actor's director. I love it when talented actors can bring characters to life.

I think you have to be careful not to do too much as yourself. Otherwise you stop getting the acting roles, and at the end of the day that's what I love.

It's what I learn from the great actors that I work with. Stillness. That's all and that's the hardest thing.

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.

I look at actors very closely. It's not an accident when the actors excel.

You try to pick good stories, and that's pretty much all the control you have as an actor.

So from an actor's perspective, you really have no idea how you're acting.

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

Acting is still, of course, what I love to do most. The beauty of it is that by changing characters, it never gets boring.

I am a really writer-oriented actor.

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'm hoping I can evade a type and go for roles based on what I consider plausible and what I consider good.

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

When you're an actor, actually, you shouldn't come up with too many ideas.

I really enjoy acting. I feel I'm getting better and better with each movie I make.

If you want to be an actor, you need to learn how to act first, even in sketch comedy.

My real training as an actor was when I started doing theatre.

When I was starting out, doing guest spots on TV, and even commercials, I would go in with a whole crazy wardrobe and some terrible accent. Obviously, I was doing too much. If you bring too much flavor to it, it's absurd. There's something to just being spontaneous.