Pankaj Kapur Quotes

Some gigs will go great. I figure you do a gig, and as many as can get there will get there.

When it is good, theatre takes a lot of beating both to watch and perform.

I never would have thought that I would be dancing at Radio City.

So it's really nice after about a year and a half to get back on stage and flex those old muscles.

I would rather do a play because it's instantaneous. You go on the stage, and you know whether it's happening or not. Somebody asked me 'What is acting?' And I said, 'Acting is listening.' And if you ain't listening, nobody's listening.

I like playing on stage, don't get me wrong.

I do most of my work on the stage, and typically once the show is over, it's over.

I want to do more theater, which allows you to take bigger risks and experiment.

There are a lot of actors - I'm probably one - who are most at home when they're on stage.

On the last day of our five-day work week, we did two performances and we had an audience. It was similar to theatre; we went from beginning to end, and it was very pleasing.

I love the instant gratification of theatre - it reminds me of why I enjoy filming in the first place.

As an actor... at some point you've got to forget that the crew's there in order to do your job.

I also loved musicals because I was a dancer.

I wanted to be on the stage, doing very important emotional roles.

I think we've always been better live.

I was in a play with Julia Roberts and Paul Newman and Tony Randall.

I never feel more alive than when I'm on stage. On film you feel chopped up, you can be acting from the neck up, or the hand, there is a lot of close up.

My first major role was in a play called 'Through the Leaves.'

In television, a sitcom is probably the closest thing to what it's like working in the theater.

We always work at least a month to six weeks before we go on the road, usually for something like eight to 12 hours a night. It took six weeks to do it this time. We just play virtually everything we know.

I used to perform all the time but I haven't performed in New York in a very long time.

My grandmother took me to a play, and... there was a little girl on stage. And as soon as I saw her on stage, I thought, 'This is my job'... I was probably, like, 7 or 8. I was very young... It was 'Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat'.

I've played dinner theaters. I'm a working stiff.

I tried theatre. I played Miss Hannigan for a short run of Annie at a regional theatre. That was fun. I enjoyed it! I enjoy theatre and have so much respect for theatre actors.

I guess I've been extremely keen on theatre, on getting on to the stage, taking on different roles, enacting vocations, personalities, people, situations, and I guess that's the interest that has driven me to work in movies.