Rajkummar Rao Quotes

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.

Growing up, I was always in my high school musicals and everything, but I kind of stopped doing all that when I finished school and acting became my main priority.

You can only dance for so long, but you can act until you're dead, so... I fell in love with it and I want to keep doing it and pushing myself.

At 14, I was modeling, which helped me come out of my shell, but I always dreamed of theater school.

I played St. Jimmy on Broadway I sort of caught the acting bug. But I didn't want to go full-bore into it because I have a lot to learn.

As I got older, I auditioned for drama school and shocked myself by getting in.

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

I hope to be acting until I am 90.

Do whatever interests you the most. Passion breeds success.

I truly believe the discipline I have honed as a dancer will bring me more opportunities as an actor.

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.

I started acting without any vocation. I continued out of love.

Who would have ever thought that I'd end up saying that I want to be an all-around entertainer? But that's what I want to be.

I've been dancing all my life, but I never did it seriously.

I fell in love with acting. I thought, 'This is what I want to do.'

I've had plenty of crappy jobs, but the only job I've ever really dedicated myself to has been acting. It's my life.

Between 18 and 26 I acted professionally, on the stage and a little bit on television. Acting is okay, but it's quite pressurized. Then I went to England - I wanted to reinvent myself.

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

I don't think I'm a star. I just love to act. I'm not thinking I'm even close to where I want to be.

I started acting because I enjoyed school plays.

Acting was all I ever really wanted to do.

Once I committed to acting, this has been it.

I want to be like Sutton Foster, Kristin Chenoweth or Anne Hathaway and do everything that has to do with performing.

My parents know how passionate I've always been about acting. I convinced them this was something that I was going to put my heart and soul into.

I don't want to give up acting - it's what I am.