Radhika Apte Quotes

I would love to be in musical theater and be on Broadway. If someone were to offer me a position to do something like that, I wouldnt pass it down. Im a huge fan of musicals and I really want to do that.

Being performers, that's what we do: We put on shows and want people to watch.

I do love to perform. And I'm ever so grateful that this has turned into a job with a future.

I did theater for 15 years, and I spent a lot of time as an understudy.

I'd wanted to be an actor from the age of five.

Once I started performing I knew that's what I wanted to do with my life. But you have to work really hard to be a performer.

The process of doing plays will make you an actor.

I still have to audition for most things.

I grew up in a family of actors. I grew up onstage. The choice for me wasn't, 'Do I want to be an actor or not?' I always felt like that's just ingrained in you, the need to perform. The choice was, 'Do you want to do this professionally or not?'

I've made a wonderful living playing that theatrical character - the professional brassy dame.

I love acting, but the star part is not my bag.

I wanted to be a Broadway star.

The world that I would want to get into would be acting. In the beginning, I would do stuff as myself if I had the opportunity to host events - host, like, a talk show. Something like that, I think, would be super amazing.

The New York theater community didn't like being invaded by reality stars - they still don't - but I got in there and auditioned just like everybody else. They hired me for 'Hairspray' to help sell tickets for a few weeks, but I ended up being there much longer than originally planned and started to carve a niche for myself.

I knew I wanted to be a performer really early on, like around 8 years old. I did tons of acting and loved being in front of people.

Once you've gotten the job, there's nothing to it. If you're an actor, you're an actor. Doing it is not the hard part. The hard part is getting to do it.

I try and get out there and audition as much as possible.

If I am not right for something there are many talented actors out there that will get it.

I haven't really ever had to audition for anything.

I would love to be on Broadway!

For every successful actor or actress, there are countless numbers who don't make it. The name of the game is rejection. You go to an audition and you're told you're too tall or you're too Irish or your nose is not quite right. You're rejected for your education, you're rejected for this or that and it's really tough.

I'd say that, first and foremost, I'm a performer; I started performing when I was four years old, and being on stage from a young age set me up.

I always wanted to go into acting.

I was in 'Rent,' for God's sake. The closest we came to stunts was dancing on a table.

Performing has been part of my life since I was eight years old, so that's what I think I do. I don't think about the fact that it happens to be in a bigger venue where people get to know you, or they think they do.