Rana Daggubati Quotes

I had no interest in really becoming an actress or doing that kind of thing... I just knew that I wanted to do something in making films.

My parents are in the business - they're actors - so I kind of grew up on a film set, which was a funny place to grow up.

Ultimately, I'd love to be able to work in film.

Live-action has always been my focus and my passion. I love voice-over, and I definitely could see myself doing some voice-over, as much as I could, and even if I ended up doing only that for the rest of my life, and I could be successful at it, that would be great. But I think my real dream is to do films and live-action films.

When we moved to L.A., I started going out for more commercials, and then one day they emailed me a movie script. The first thing I said was, 'No way. I love commercials.'

When I emerged from drama school, I had no expectation that I would ever work in film.

I quit doing the movies because the wrestling was going so good and was so on fire during the '80s and '90s, but I was getting all these movie scripts.

I had been taking acting classes on and off while I was modeling, so I always had a dream to be in a film.

I never wanted to be in the show business. I wanted to do special effects.

It's all about the special effects.

I'm still waiting for my first big Hollywood paycheck... maybe I'll play a superhero.

A live action movie is work, and an animated movie is you showing up in your pajamas once every three months, or in my case, just a splash of baby powder. It's not any kind of heavy lifting.

I like working on big budget films.

Eventually, I want to be a creative producer that isn't in things. The acting is more of a secondary thing for me now.

I was certain when I was about 10 years old that I was going to be a special effects artist or a make-up man. I loved that stuff and pursued it for quite some time, actually.

One of the scariest moments was being on Tyler Perry's first movie, 'Diary of a Mad Black Woman.'

After being an actor, producing 'One By Two' was a natural progression.

After 11 seasons, I retired from football. Four months later I was in Ghana shooting 'Beasts of No Nation' as an executive producer.

I realized on my first day on set of 'Miss Potter' that there wasn't going to be anything else that could make me as happy or feel as fulfilled as acting does.

What you do in film and television is really different than what you do in video games.

When I was a kid, I wanted to make movies. In particular, I loved animation and would love to have been an animator.

Yes, I faced camera for the first time for '18th Cross.' It was a great experience for me to be part of a film after working in some television serials.

One of the things that motion capture and/or voice acting does is allow you to continue your career, change it, or bring a new aspect to it.

I felt that I should become a film actress first, and then come back to serials and earn good remuneration from it.

Before I became an actor, I was a producer and a visual effects supervisor. Our industry wasn't making the kind of films I was interested in.