Soni Razdan Quotes

I have never struggled for anything in my life because I never thought I will be an actress. Film just walked up to my house with 'Abodh.'

One day I was in school, and the next I was acting opposite Jeremy Irons. That's how quickly it happened. I was in class and then working with Sir Anthony Hopkins.

I can't complain about the roles that have come my way.

I'm an actor. If you had said to me before I started acting that I'd get two bites of the cherry - you would do things that people will remember forever like 'The Brothers' which I did in the '70s and now 'Doctor Who' - I'd have been overjoyed and I still am.

At the time I was growing up in the business I was very well established within the industry as a child actor and as I grew up and turned into a teenager there was less and less work.

A little acting debut in Spin City, with Michael J. Fox, which opened up a whole new door for me.

When I was 8, my dad asked me if I wanted to audition, just for fun. I did just a little short film, and I liked it. I just kept doing it, and then I started getting bigger auditions for bigger roles.

I consider myself a very lucky actor that, approaching 60, I'm still employed and employable.

I've done almost 20 films and I still worry about not finding the next one.

I started acting professionally when I was about 17. I worked immediately, but a year into it, I did an independent film in Canada, and that started it all. It was proof that maybe I could do this as a career.

It's so ridiculous how you just get a call one day and go on an audition that can easily change your life for the next several years.

Everyone's amazed by the question that how did I succeed as an actor in the industry, which has Kamal Haasan? It's because I grew as an actor watching Kamal's acting.

I really love being in 'Game of Thrones,' but I don't know if it's my big break.

As a child, I always wanted to be an actor. But as I grew older, the acting dream kind of faded away, and I took to studying a lot. A few years later, a relative of mine who really wanted me to try my hand at acting sent my photographs to a few production houses, and like they say, the rest is history.

After passing out of the National School of Drama, I spent many years doing small-time roles in Bollywood.

In Delhi, I became a serious stage actor. Then, luckily, the FTII acting course began, and I studied there, spent some time working on my craft. In 2008, I moved to Mumbai, and then in one and a half years of so-called struggle, I got my first film, 'Love Sex aur Dhokha' (LSD).

I grew up on movie sets, so it was something I just found familiar. When I was growing up also, in high school, I would audition for things and my parents let me audition for things - with the thought that I wouldn't get them. And then I would get them... sometimes, and it would surprise them.

I auditioned nine times for 'Delhi Belly,' and it was torturous!

My first film as an actor was 'Fast Times at Ridgemont High,' a glorious experience that spoiled me for future films.

Trying to constantly get yourself into movies is extremely stressful and sometimes just impossible.

I used to beg for auditions. Now, they're being thrown at me.

Most young actors, that's all they're trying to do: Get better at acting and be able to keep doing it. And that doesn't work out for most people.

My goal as an actor has always been to reach a level where I can find a lot of interesting work, and I think I'm at that point now. The Oscar has given me a lot of recognition.

Going through the ranks and all the training you do as an actor, you hope you're going to make it. But there's a part of you that's got to be realistic and say: 'Look, it might not happen to me.'

A lot of people didn't realize that I acted before I did anything else.