Prabhas Quotes

I started performing at school and drama classes when I was 7.

I like to spend as much time on the stage as possible. I don't do a regular TV series because I don't want to be overexposed.

My dad was a theater actor, so I would follow him backstage. And my mom was a casting director. The moment I heard the applause and realized it would get me out of school, I was hooked.

The first time I ever did a play, in junior high school, I said to myself, 'Hey, people like me doing this. I'm making them laugh.'

It was when I was on stage that I realized that acting could be such a brilliant job.

Soaps are the best. They really are. If you can do a soap, well, you can do anything. You have to learn pages of dialogue very quickly.

I've been performing on stage since I was six years old.

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

I've been acting all along. I understand that I haven't been in people's viewers, but acting has never not been a part of my life, just more time in between and less high-profile.

There are lots of moments that are great for an actress.

The average scene in a film, you have to shoot it 15, 20 times. That means you got to laugh or cry 15, 20 times.

I think my natural home was always the stage.

I think I'd always been interested in performing.

Not once in my life have I done theatre. Being on stage is not my thing.

I've been lucky enough to play many different roles from darker characters to family orientated shows to comedy.

When you are doing a show, it can get really dull. You are sitting so long while they set up the lights, then you say a couple of lines, then they tear down the lights again. At least stunts are something that uses your physical energy a great deal.

As an actress, emotions are my business, my stock-in-trade. As such, I've dealt with them nearly all my life.

I was very interested in acting as a kid. I loved to perform.

I'm an actor. I love to act. That's my job. I'll leave the politicking to others.

Maybe I just wasn't a show-biz type. I didn't miss performing at all.

I've done a lot of theater, and I know that it's a different audience each time who doesn't know the story, and we have to tell it.

I've had to make the transition from sweeping in for 15 minutes, doing my stuff and clearing out, to carrying a movie for the duration - in a dress.

I have been acting since I was thirteen.

I'm an actor, and I like having attention, I guess. There's a reason I like being on stage. There's a reason I like being in front of a camera. It's that interaction.

I drifted into acting. My grandfather had a house in Buffalo in which there was a stage, and his friends met every two weeks or so to put on plays. So it was natural for me to put on plays, too, when I went to boarding school. I put on everything in the drama - I was indiscriminate. I put on Yeats and Shaw and Lady Gregory.