Suniel Shetty Quotes

I think my best teacher and my best study was theater in general. It taught me a lot of patience and a lot of hard work, and I think that theater teaches you that you've got to know your stuff because you only get one chance.

Basically, the actor's job is to pay attention to the script.

One thing I've really never had a problem with was memorizing lines. Most of the time I don't memorize the lines until we're on the set shooting the scene.

By the time I got to the Fox studio for my first major film, I knew how to hit a mark. I knew how to memorize lines. I knew how to pay attention.

You rely on a lot of things about learning to play a particular character.

Good looks may be enough for a heroine, but to become an artiste, you need at least a working knowledge of the language.

I can't do an accent unless I'm on the set. I forget how to do it until I'm on the set.

When I am rehearsing for a play, I try to read nothing that might distract my concentration from the work in progress.

I don't like being away from theater that long. The muscles get atrophied if you don't exercise them.

The better I am at observing moments in life, the better I'll be at showing them in my acting.

I love nothing better than to get all the nuts and bolts out of the way - show up on time, with lines learned, clear on what the director expects of me, with my buttons buttoned and my jewelry on correctly - and then I completely commit to play acting.

When I'm playing Big Momma, it's so much work that all I want to do, when I'm finished, is go back home and just relax and study my lines and get ready for the next day.

There are two main jobs in acting - the first one is to be a good actor, and the second one is to convince everyone that you're a good actor.

I learn the whole script before I show up.

Having done a lot of theater, I'm used to sustaining characters over long periods of time.

If anybody wanted to photograph my life, they'd get bored in a day. 'Heres Matt at home learning his lines. Here's Matt researching in aisle six of his local library'. A few hours of that and they'd go home.

I think all great actors - and I don't classify myself as one of them, incidentally - but I think all great actors listen well and I've learned that from a lot of the very good actors with whom I've worked - to really listen to what people say.

People ask me, 'How do you remember your lines?' That's nothing. That is the least of my concerns.

There's nowhere to hide in the theatre. You can't be the one in rehearsal who doesn't know their lines.

I'd never done a straight play before, never, and it was very hard work - really, really hard work. It was dense, really wordy, and I was determined to learn every word of it - not just skip over bits and pieces.

Some scenes you juggle two balls, some scenes you juggle three balls, some scenes you can juggle five balls. The key is always to speak in your own voice. Speak the truth. That's Acting 101. Then you start putting layers on top of that.

As an actor, your life experience is just as important as studying.

Acting is like going to the gym. You have to keep yourself in shape and concentrate on your core.

Soaps are the best. They really are. If you can do a soap, well, you can do anything. You have to learn pages of dialogue very quickly.

As an actor, you need to be versatile. You need to challenge yourself.