Aishwarya Rai Bachchan Quotes

I can't speak for anyone else, but in my case, I sort of fell into acting.

I kind of fell backwards into acting. I was studying to be a high school teacher. I look now and I understand completely, or actually barely, how much work it is to be a teacher. It's an incredible amount of work.

There came a point sometime during high school when I started thinking about exploring acting as a career, but it was more of an intention than an actual decision. I was very interested in a lot of different subjects, but every time I envisioned myself actually pursuing one as a career, I always ended up thinking that I would rather be acting.

I never planned to become an actor.

Music will always be a part of my life, but career-wise, acting is where my heart is.

I used to watch several films a day when I was a kid. This made me think about taking up acting as a career.

Films just happened by chance. I had no interest in films or acting as a heroine, but that's a long story.

There came a time when I had to decide between show business and devoting my full time to medical training. I chose show business.

I was about 15 when I decided that acting was what I wanted to pursue professionally.

I always knew I was going to do something with music, but with my whole family being in the business, acting was something that was just mine. But when I was 20 or 21, I started writing songs and felt the itch to make a record.

My own ambitions were eclectic. My father ran a steel plant, and I was expected to study metallurgy and end up at the steel plant when I finished high school at age 15. Despite my proficiency at science, I decided against it and instead went on to study filmmaking.

I was having a dilemma whether I wanted to return to acting at all because I was coming from this sort of agency-less childhood career, and I'd never made the choice to go into acting.

I did not become an actor to earn money - that I could have done it in my village by becoming a farmer. I wanted to show my craft, which I am so passionate about.

Never, never in my life did I have it in my mind to become an actress or be part of a film.

I get the most joy out of acting and studying new characters.

I want to be tagged as an actor and not as a star.

There's a joke in my family that I'm going to make a career out of playing other people's younger selves.

I have done many movies. Some simultaneously and others after taking a break.

I told my mother I wanted to be an actress, and the next thing I know is that I'm studying in a very expensive film school.

I hail from a small town. My parents were never apprehensive about my decision to take up acting - they've been a constant support to me.

I started quite late. I didn't know acting was a job.

I wanted to work strictly as a freelance actor, and that's the way it turned out.

Please don't make me a joke. End the interview with what I believe. I don't mind making jokes, but I don't want to look like one... I want to be an artist, an actress with integrity...

I take acting very seriously. I put everything I have and know into it.

I went to college and stage school, and thought about acting, but... I just don't like actors very much! They're not as fun as musicians.