Anushka Sharma Quotes

On 'America's Top Model,' I've always told my girls to smile with their eyes. We call it 'smizing.' Over the years, it's actually become part of pop culture. I would be walking down the street, and girls would say, 'Smize!'

I've always thought of modeling as a performance, so I don't mind kind of pretending. I kind of pretend in a lot of my poses that I am a ballerina or a hip-hop dancer or a grunge performer.

A model needs to know how to project herself into the camera.

When you're modeling you're actually acting for the camera and the photographer. It's more fun, too because there are no lines to memorize.

Modelling, for me, I find that it's like acting.

I don't even think when I'm walking down the runway. I don't really breathe either.

Sometimes the writing can be so good that the actor doesn't really have to do anything.

Modeling isn't all that tough.

Everything you see on screen is real. By doing what we do, there's naturally going to be a lot of grimacing. And whimpering.

Action is drama. If we cannot make the audience laugh, smile or cry with us, we are not actors.

This is going to sound cheesy, but with acting there are so many tools. When you're on camera, you're using all of it. You're using the voice, you're using your body, you're using wardrobe, all of it, but it's funny, once you take all of those things away, you realize how much you rely on the physicality.

My dad actually taught me how to do the catwalk because he used to do modeling. He taught me how to do that little swivel at the end.

Me, I'm good at nothing but walking on the set with a pretty dress.

It's very hard when you do photocalls. You have to be on time, you have to be all cheesy smiles, and have your hair and make-up done, and be into it. It's not like a photoshoot. You have to really put the cheese factor in. I think you have to be more willing to go for it.

Modeling is the world that I feel most welcome in.

I know acting is not impersonating, but I'm good with impressions. I can do impressions of people I know, and people I've been, and roles that I've acted before.

When you model for a show, you get this real sense of adrenaline. It's difficult when the shoes are so high - that part's quite scary - but you just have to do it.

When I get in front of a camera all my fears and my inhibitions just go away. As a model, I feel that I am acting, too, playing different parts and showing different facets of myself.

Maybe there's some kind of modeling that can be tedious, like catalogue modeling, but there's a kind of modeling, with runways or working with Richard Avedon, that's not very far from acting. Besides the fact that you don't have a partner to react to, the body language is the same.

Modeling is really silent acting.

Not all actresses know how to express their looks, I think. For me, it's an on-again, off-again thing. I'm still struggling.

I've always felt that to deliver a song successfully, you have to be an actress. A good actress becomes the part, just as a good singer becomes the song.

With acting, the last thing you do is try to look pretty. Modeling actually makes acting harder - it makes you so self-aware.

Acting is very similar to modeling.

I think a lot of comedians make the best dramatic actresses because they have a facility. They're very vulnerable. They're very open, like clowns.