Sushmita Sen Quotes

I've found acting on stage much more challenging than on screen.

Stevie Van Zandt could not walk on to a set and act. I don't know how actors do that! It's the scariest thing in the world.

As an actor, my job is to go to the set, read my scene and perform to the best of my abilities.

As an actor, I love challenges.

One of the most difficult things I find as an actor is to laugh on cue. It is way harder than crying or other emotions. It's sometimes harder than yawning on cue.

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

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.

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

Why do you act? You act for an audience. In the theatre, you're in their presence. Film stars don't know what it is to have an audience.

Nobody is a perfect actor.

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

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

Acting is always a challenge.

I'm so into playing different characters, even when I was on Nickelodeon. I just observe.

Stage is the ultimate test; I like watching established screen actors on stage to see if they can really do it. But it's great to have a healthy mixture of the two. Film is so technical: there's something very particular about the relationship between you and the camera. It took a long time for me to get good on film.

What I love to do requires portraying different characters, and you have to separate your life from the role.

So what's so enticing about doing a play is that you get to do that thing that got you into acting in the first place... There's a real attraction to being able to play, to just play. And that's something that theater affords you.

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.

When I started acting, it was really the way for me to be able to communicate.

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

I have, I think to do a play a year is very good if you can afford the time and the energy because it's difficult to do, it's really the actors medium of course, because you're really out there and nobody's yelling cut so, yeah I have.

As an actor, I'm always so excited about those things that I get to stretch my legs and really get to do something that's hard to do.

As an actor, you should be willing to take challenges.

The process of doing plays will make you an actor.