Rithvik Dhanjani Quotes

In order to be a good actor, I'm a firm believer that you need to bring something to the table.

I think you can really tell a good actor if you can put a camera on them and they can just talk and emote and react and you don't have to keep cutting away from them, because they are the language and the behavior. It's all a tour-de-force performance.

The secret of being a great actor is a love of food.

My acting coach I've got here, Richard Lawson, he's been doing good, just telling me to calm down sometimes and just be me.

Any acting job that I ever got, I always treated it like I was a neophyte; I didn't know what I was doing, and I was going to work just as hard as I do on my stand-up.

I try to get the best performance an actor can give.

I've always approached acting from a very workmanlike perspective.

Now that I'm acting, I've realized that I don't have a lot of barriers. Certain actors have a hard time with anger or with joy or with whatever, and, I don't know, I don't seem to have those barriers.

If you want to deliver as an actor, you need to know the language. If you don't know what you are mouthing, how will you perform? For me, it is important to know the language.

Film acting is one of the only industries where you're criticized for working hard. In any other industry, it's considered a quality and something to behold.

An actor matures with experiences, and the more the emotions he/she has been through, the greater the intensity of performances.

I love to take actors to a place where they open a vein. That's the job. The key is that I make it safe for them to open the vein.

Everyone brings their own particular skill set to the job, and acting training can work for a lot of actors, and it can't. I've seen a lot of really good actors go into acting schools and then come out a little bit corrupted.

I'm not going to get better as an actor working on bad stuff.

As long as you have the acting chops and the desire to get inside a character, you can play anything.

I pick up a lot of stuff from them, but I don't think there's any great trick to acting.

Personally, I need to learn every word on the page before I go in and audition. I have not mastered the skill of holding pages in my hand and acting with pages in my hand. I find that every time I have to look at the page it takes me completely out of the scene.

As an actor, you're trained to do the right thing, be politically correct, say your lines, say the right thing about the people you're working with.

A lot of what acting is paying attention.

To be honest, there are so many things I learned in acting school beyond the method; it was a safe place to practice. So acting school was about exercising that acting muscle and doing it every single day - and having people tell you that you're bad every single day! Which pushes you to work even harder.

To me, a lot of what makes a good actor is not what a teacher tells you to do but how you respond when you're on your own.

It's been about ten years since I've worked with actors who knew their lines!

The one thing for an actor that is complete death is if you're bored, because that boredom will show in your work.

When I was starting out, doing guest spots on TV, and even commercials, I would go in with a whole crazy wardrobe and some terrible accent. Obviously, I was doing too much. If you bring too much flavor to it, it's absurd. There's something to just being spontaneous.

Ninety percent of the preparation we do as actors is just jive. It doesn't do anything.