Raashi Khanna Quotes

It's a fine line. If you withhold too much, you come across as wooden - as I've often been described in some movies. Fair enough. I believe that the best performances are the ones that an audience has to search for.

For the actors, the talent is to serve the demands that I ask of them, to do it with naturality and truth, and to be honest when we were terrified.

I was very conscious of the actor; watched what he did.

It's well done if you can do a part and not have the acting show.

One of the exciting and enjoyable aspects of acting is being in the environment with another actor.

The best actors do not let the wheels show.

Obviously there are times with acting when exactly what is required is just going through the motions, and when doing nothing is the best thing. But at other times, you have to make that leap beyond the immediate environment of people putting up lights on the set.

I think people will be curious to see what I can do as a dramatic actor.

If I do a scene with an actor who doesn't have much experience, I say, 'I tell you what we're going to do: You just listen to me, and then you respond. We don't have to do any acting.' And that's good advice because you shouldn't see the acting.

As an actress, it appeals to me because I love the idea of playing those in-between moments, the sort of behavioral stuff that one might not normally see.

The most interesting thing about acting is when you go to the dark places, that's a lot of energy. When you go to the happiest places, it's also a lot of energy.

At the end of the day, an actor has to just play what's in front of him.

Playing King George, for me, was a lesson in stillness and timing.

Our job as actors is to just try to be as accurate and as mindful of what the audience is going through and receiving and processing.

Ultimately, as an actor, it comes down to committing to the text in the script.

An actor's job is to find variations of the same emotion in his being so that every time he expresses grief or joy, it doesn't look the same.

An actor will use every piece of information at their disposal, or a good actor will.

Theatre demands different muscles and different aspects of one's personality.

For any role, I pretty much always go to the script, first and foremost.

I'm the sort of actor who likes to talk about what we're going to do.

Acting isn't that hard, really. I mean, I think that people make a big deal about it, but you just kind of try to say your lines naturally.

It's sort of the most important thing for acting, is to listen to the person you're dealing with.

A live audience with live reactions feeds a different sort of acting that will then inform your film work, and vice versa.

Throughout your whole career, there's a bunch of people you might have to kiss. Say there's this character opposite you, and you might not be into her - or him, personally. You just gotta' do it. That's your job.

There's a lot of actors that I admire because they can just switch one second into the character. Then, they go back to jokes, and then they're doing something really dramatic. I can't do that. I have to really focus.