Rishi Kapoor Quotes

I worked with the same trainer that worked with Denzel Washington in THe Hurricane. It was three months of training, five days a week, 4 to 5 hours a day. This was followed by a month of choreography.

I trained in Texas at Nikki Pederson Talent Academy.

And I've been taking acting classes since I was 7.

A lot of people are surprised to hear that an actor studied for two or three years. They take the craft for granted and wanna just wake up and be an actor.

In Jaipur, I did almost everything from regional theatre to Shakespeare's plays. But when I shifted to Mumbai, I joined Anupam Kher's academy, Actor Prepares, to hone my acting skills.

I'm a born athlete. Weight-lifting is in my blood. I used to do the powerlifting thing. I gained a little weight, but I still got it; I'm mad built.

I got into acting classes. I didn't want to just go by luck.

I love the life of a musician but I live the life of a bodybuilder.

The thing about me is I have a great little acting school. I teach about 125 students.

I was not a trained actor.

I'm just like James Stewart, because I never studied to be an actor.

When I first started, I would go to Weist-Barron, and I studied with Rita Litton and ACTeen. For teenagers, it's a really, really great school. We did a lot of on-camera stuff, so you see yourself and what you do on camera.

My job is to be fit and I'm really blessed that I get to go and work out and live a really healthy lifestyle.

I'm an actor. I was trained by Stella Adler, one of the greatest teachers of the world. I was 19 years old, and she frightened me to death. I was her houseboy for a while.

I got involved with an acting school and studied for a couple years. They used to have improv exercises that you would work on and you would do improvs.

The acting part is easy; it's the preparing - lifting weights and getting your body in tip-top shape - that's the hard part.

There are lots of people in the world who do have the advantage of going to a good drama school and just decide that they want to be actors. There's nothing wrong with an untrained actor; they have to get their training somehow, they have to learn.

I lift quite heavy weights, but unfortunately no one believes me.

I never did any sports at school. It wasn't until I moved to America, to New York, when I was about 20 that I actually thought that if I wanted to be an actress I might have to start working out.

I was a guy who needed to go to class, because I had some raw talent that I thought was identifiable, when I finally made a decision to be an actor. And yet I wanted to learn how to really do the stuff. You know, 'How do I get to be a serious actor?'

I have a theory about that, if you have to say something, if you have encourage for one second a prospective acting student - he should not go in to acting.

I've been acting since I was 9, but in college I entered the drama program, and I didn't excel at it at all, kind of for the first time.

I was naturally muscular from Day 1.

When I wanted to become a serious actor, this girl told me, 'You should go to Juilliard.' And I said, 'Okay.'

I want to do an action movie where they say, 'Go the gym and get ripped like Linda Hamilton.'