Tanushree Dutta Quotes

When I first became an actress, I expected to do regional and classical theater; I just love the whole creative process.

I'm just a stage actress. I'm very comfortable onstage.

I did theater at Spelman until I graduated from there, and I got to work with such luminous actresses as Diana Sands in 'Macbeth.'

I've done a lot of period drama before. A lot of my jobs have been that.

I had the privilege of working with so many great actors over the years.

I kind of got lost down a road of TV and film, so it's great to come back to theatre.

I always wanted to go into acting.

Acting is my job.

That's the great thing about being an actor, you get to try out lots of things for your roles.

I was a repertory actor, which meant that I did a play every week. I was a different character every week; for a year, I was doing 40 or 50 characters.

I'm interested in playing all kinds of parts.

I came out of repertory theater, where I worked 50 weeks a year, and I loved working with the people.

I know at some point I would like to take on more dramatic roles.

I always wanted to act. I guess I've always been a bit of a drama queen.

I'd definitely love to do more acting. My heart cries out for it; it's such a deep longing.

Acting is everybody's favorite second job.

Throughout school I appeared in all sorts of productions and deep in my heart of hearts I knew that was what I want to do more than anything else.

When I was younger and studying acting, I never ever saw myself in the sitcom world; it was drama that really turned me on and still does.

Well, Mom and Dad are both actors, and I've spent a lot of time watching my mom on stage and a lot of time on set with my dad, so it was very much a part of my growing up.

By the time I had finished my studies at St. Paul's School, I knew I wanted to be an actor.

It was not really a career choice that I had to make. It was something I knew right from the beginning. I had to be an actress... period.

I loved movies growing up. I went to the movies with my uncle all the time. But being an actor? I didn't even think about it until I was about twenty years old. I took a class at the college I was at. I don't know why - I just wanted to take a class, and I kind of fell in love with it there.

I would love to do more acting; I really would love to do it, particularly character acting. I'm a character type of actor; I love situations where I've got a bit of room to improvise on the character.

I feel very privileged to have worked with a lot of outstanding actors: Alun Armstrong, Peter Mullan, Matt Smith and Andrew Garfield.

I love theatre, and you learn too much as an actor and enjoy too much of it not to want to go back a lot.