Chunky Pandey Quotes

Most films, when you finish as an actor, you just go home.

No, I'm a theatrical, live performer or a movie performer.

Stage is definitely my home first and foremost - I still feel like I'm yet to earn my stripes on set.

A casting director who'd cast me in 'Assassins' sent a video to Kevin Reynolds, the director, and Mel Gibson, whose company is producing '187.' Then I went in and auditioned, and a few hours later, they called me.

I've never read for a movie, I've always been given them.

If it's a role like this one, an actual live person, a legend, there's lots of material laid out.

I have learned a lot from jazz. I compare good acting to jazz music. The more you study and prepare as an actor, the more equipped you are to live in the moment. Just like the gifted musicians in my dad's quartet, it takes a courageous actor to be free.

I auditioned for 'Avatar' in Australia. It was a 'blind' audition. I didn't know what the movie was about and whom it was for.

My first audition for 'The Magicians' came up in conversation with a close friend who, right then, handed me the first book.

My entire family, we were obsessed with 'Glee,' so when I got an audition, I was freaking out. But I knew exactly what to do, I had watched the show so many times.

I play a tough cop in 'Very Good' and the role is quite similar to Dhaya Nayak, Mumbai's popular encounter specialist. I have made all efforts to fit the role.

I would love to be a part of an interesting, entertaining film in which I shine like never before.

I don't miss acting in films. I haven't had that many good experiences with it. If I had, I probably would like it more.

One night I went to see Bobby at the Flamingo. Because he was my hero, I would visit him for inspiration.

Preparation is definitely important, but it depends on the kinds of roles I do. Like, I completely identify with my character in 'Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani.' I had to be myself and I didn't have to actually prepare for it.

So I regard my part in Genevieve as a real challenge.

Acting is an imaginative leap, really, isn't it? And imaginations prosper in different circumstances.

The whole idea with acting is that you take some risks. And if you take some risks, you're really going to mess up sometimes. But it's not OK to mess up a movie; it's not OK to do that just so you can improve as an actor. But film-making takes a little bit of risk in every department.

I got an agent and went up for the part of my first film, Five Gates to Hell.

I taped my original audition for 'Fargo' with my agency in Chicago, Stewart Talent.

When I do film, I really take on roles and I take on characters.

This fall I'm doing something I've never done before. I'm starring in a film, an independent film.

I actually started as a director, but then I saw Mark Ruffalo in 'You Can Count on Me,' and I thought to myself, 'I want to do that.'

Anyone who has been given the gift of being opposite an actor who gives and gives, it just makes you better.

I know I can't play funny roles in movies. I tried, and it didn't work.