Radhika Apte Quotes

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

Good actors I've worked with all started out making faces in a mirror, and you keep making faces all your life.

Movie acting is about covering the machinery. Stage acting is about exposing the machinery. In cinema, you should think the actor is playing himself, if he's that good. It looks very easy. It should. But it's not, I assure you.

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

If you only live in the world of the actor, and if you only live in the world of auditions, etc., then you don't really have a whole lot to offer when it comes to playing the humans that you're trying to audition for.

At Julliard, they don't teach you where to move your face for the camera, you know?

It's funny because, if you're not an actor, people always tend to say, 'How do you memorize all those lines? Is that really hard?' I'm always like, 'That's just a small part of it. I have to seek my craft and my emotions' - you know, all this gross, actor-y stuff.

As an actor, there's no faking it.

As actors, when we keep working every day, after a point of time, we just know all our emotional cards and how to play them.

With acting, a lot of it has to come from that real, honest place.

An actor's job is to find variations of the same emotion in his being so that every time he expresses grief or joy, it doesn't look the same.

Because I didn't go to drama school, I didn't start in the business with any toolbox apart from enthusiasm and instinct. I'd throw everything at a part and sometimes realise that I had hit my limits.

I had no real experience studying acting; I came to it having done other things for a living for many, many years, and I have this gigantic respect for experience and technique.

Film acting is really the trick of doing moments. You rarely do a take that lasts more than 20 seconds. You really earn your spurs acting onstage. I needed to do that for myself. I would hate to say at the end of everything that I never did a stage play.

The worst acting is about imitation.

My acting range has always been something between the two extremes of 'raises left eyebrow' and 'raises right eyebrow.'

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

Your primary tools, as an actor, are observation and imagination. You can pretty much get everything you need from that, and you do. It brings back that element of pretend.

I have just gained a deeper and deeper respect for acting and the whole art of it because you're really trying to live a life and to do the best justification for it.

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

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

'Hollyoaks' is where I learnt a lot of the craft, being in front of a camera six days a week. That's certainly an experience you don't get in drama school. It invites you to be comfortable in front of the camera.

It's what I learn from the great actors that I work with. Stillness. That's all and that's the hardest thing.

Like any other actor, I draw on life experience.

It's a funny thing. You sort of never figure it out with acting. You're always learning.