Radhika Pandit Quotes

Back in Rome I did some acting lessons and I realised I loved it more than anything else I had ever done before.

I went to college for one semester, and I took every subject I could, and I ended up failing. So I thought to myself, Ever since I was a kid, I've loved expression - and that's when I started thinking about acting.

When I was in my freshman year at college I took some acting classes and found that I fell in love with it again.

Acting was always something fun to do on the side growing up, but I never really took it seriously. I would do a commercial every few months, and that paid my school tuition. But in high school, I was mostly into sports and didn't go out for stuff during those seasons.

I was a bit of a backstage baby, but I wasn't at all precocious, and there was never a light bulb moment when I decided to go on the stage.

I studied performing arts at college and wanted to act.

I never went to stage school or anything like that. It was always plays, productions at school and things like that. The thing for me with acting was it was the only thing I could fully concentrate on. I loved playing sports. I didn't really love studying.

I have been a performer for as long as I can remember. I performed in Sunday school and church plays.

I was always an actor, starting in middle school. I was in all the plays and all that. But dancing didn't come into my life until late into high school.

Once I got to high school and auditioned for a play and got in, I thought this was really what I was looking for. Once that had got cleared up, from 13 on, that was it.

I got my first acting role because I was a singer.

I like to act. Every other aspect of show business I find uninteresting.

My father was an actor, and we have the most important theatre company in Montreal.

I went to theatre school for four years and just wanted to do theatre. I had no ambition to be on TV or to be on camera. I just wanted to go to New York or London and be on stage... I did a lot of theatre in Montreal, got involved in TV in Toronto and then moved to L.A. I hope that film and TV will take me back to theatre.

It wasn't until my senior year in high school that I started acting.

Acting goes back a little ways for me. I supposed I started with theater growing up. It was mainly a social outlet and it was just kind of something I did for fun. I met a lot of good friends through it, so it really kept me involved.

I think some people in their 20s really get it, that acting is about creativity and the work. They get their maturity from their work.

I didn't know what my passion was until I discovered the dramatic arts in junior high and high school and I realized, 'Oh, I like this. This is something I feel like I'm good at.' But, the idea of moving to Hollywood and becoming an actor was really unrealistic.

When I was 17, I studied at RADA in London for the summer. I wanted to live abroad and to pursue drama, so it seemed like the perfect opportunity. I thought I may as well throw myself in at the deep end. My first big role is in 'Starlet.'

I loved being on stage. I was in elementary school when I started, so I couldn't say that it was about the building of characters.

I really wanted to do plays since I was a little girl. I wanted to go to Juilliard and to learn, but then I really fell in love with doing film and television along the way.

I'd like to one day be able to say, 'I was in more than one play on Broadway.'

I've always wanted to perform on the London stage.

I never wanted to go longer than five years off the stage. Not necessarily musicals, but just doing a play or something.

I started getting on my feet and clowning around, and they ended up putting me in a play when I was 12. And I was hooked.