Divya Dutta Quotes

I've always believed acting is an improvisational art form, even when not a single line is changed. I mean, the behavior should always be improvised. My favorite moments in any performance are when I'm just along for the ride; when I'm surprising myself. I know when I'm done and I think to myself, 'Gee, I didn't see that coming,' I've done well.

I enjoy all kinds of performances and take each role differently. I keep the audiences in mind.

The exciting part of acting, I don't know how else to explain it, are those moments when you surprise yourself.

An actor is at most a poet and at least an entertainer.

For me, when I do my best acting, it's mainly imagination. Then I really have a lot of fun with it.

I think one of the great things about acting is the instant gratification: you just get up and start being a part of the story. The immediacy is something you get really addicted to.

Theatre gives you wings as an actor.

The joy of acting for me is to be able to experience emotions in a safe environment. You can't scream and cry in the street because everybody will look. If you do it on a movie set, you get applauded.

Acting is like free therapy! Trying to make people laugh or cry can be inspiring.

You've got to love acting and that's true for me. I love the idea of getting on stage and getting in front of a camera.

An actor should be able to create the universe in the palm of his hand.

I love to act and put on a show, but you're playing a character all the time. For music, it's really just me being myself.

You work with stand-up comedians or you work with somebody in theater, you work with somebody from 'Star Search' or 'Survivor' or a kid, it constantly changes how you play with people.

One of the things that makes any good entertainment, whether it's a play, drama, comedy, television, film, whatever, is that you feel a certain amount of spontaneity.

I'm motivated by entertaining people.

As much as I know people love the method and what you can draw out of yourself, a lot of acting is very imaginative.

Acting is way of making yourself exist.

I've always been an improviser. I was one before I knew even what the word was... And acting, that I've been doing since I was 5.

I know what I love about acting - and it's the creative process.

Theater is about surprises and things that you haven't seen before on stage.

I like the idea of acting. Of all these things I've done, sometimes I think I've done well, and sometimes I think I didn't do well, but they are more cameos, and I come in and be crazy.

To me acting originally became an extension of game playing.

I guess just a lively imagination is the best effort an actor can have.

I'm a storyteller, I'm an actor, an entertainer.

I think I'm a very intuitive actress.