Aparshakti Khurana Quotes

I was a football player at college and dislocated my thumb. I was out for a bit and passed the theatre and saw some lovely drama students walking into an audition for 'Much Ado About Nothing' and thought: 'That's what I'll do when I recover.' I joined that production and was hooked.

I did a lot of theater as a kid because I had a bunch of friends who did it.

Modelling was not very satisfying for me. I came to London to model, and I fell in love with the theatre. I was eating yoghurt every day so that I had the money to go to the theatre. I saw everything. It's still my dream to be on stage in London.

I was called to audition for a play when I was very young, following which I continued to act as well as write and direct. When I moved to Delhi and joined Hindu College, theatre became a very big part of my life.

My grandparents met each other in amateur theatre. My uncle is an actor.

There's a play that Chekhov wrote called 'Uncle Vanya,' and I when I was in school, I played Sonya, and sometimes people ask me if there was ever a role I could play again, that's definitely the role I would play again: Sonya in 'Uncle Vanya.'

I'm doing a play at Trafalgar Studios with The Jamie Lloyd Company - 'The Maids' by Jean Genet with Uzo Aduba and Laura Charmichael, directed by Jamie Lloyd. It's one of my favourite plays by one of my favourite playwrights.

From musicals to plays, I was part of all things theatrical all through my school life in Chandigarh, and this helped me develop a strong love for theatre and acting. Even during college, I was active in the theatre scene and even founded two theatre groups.

I started out doing a lot of theater, a lot of Shakespeare, classic plays.

I love Broadway shows.

I was very interested in theatre, mostly in stage design. I did a little bit of acting.

My parents used to take me to a lot of theatre when I was young.

I was involved with my theater program in high school, and I was involved in a festival where I could audition for a lot of different schools.

My father was an actor, and we have the most important theatre company in Montreal.

I did a production of 'Journey's End,' an RC Sherriff play about World War I, at the Edinburgh Festival. I was 18 and it was the first time that people I knew and loved and respected came up to me after the show and said, 'You know, you could really do this if you wanted to.'

The Old Vic has always been first and foremost an actors' theatre, a home for great talent and memorable performances.

I don't see enough theatre.

In college, I started out doing musicals and Shakespeare.

I love film, but it's funny going to drama school for three years, where you spend most of your time training for theatre, then coming out and just doing films.

Theatre outings are my favourite thing to spend money on. The most influential play I saw was 'Bent,' which starred Ian McKellen. And I loved the original performance of 'The Rocky Horror Show,' with Richard O'Brien and Tim Curry at the Royal Court, when I was about 15.

As an actor, to go and see those shows - great plays like 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?' and Clifford Odets's 'Golden Boy' - it's so exhilarating. I'd personally love to perform the role of Jerry in Edward Albee's 'The Zoo Story.' He's a transient, lost soul, and an example of humanity at its rawest.

I'd love to go back and do theater. There's nothing like that instant response and the connection to a live audience.

My mother was a leading lady in a local theatre in Birmingham, Alabama, where I grew up.

I love theater. I started in theater when I was nine years old.

The first role I played was Madame Ranevsky in 'The Cherry Orchard.'