Sayani Gupta Quotes

I have always felt that acting in a film is very challenging in itself. But when it comes to performing live, I think that is more challenging.

Actors have to make you believe that it's happening for the first time and all that jazz and make it human and at the same time entertain you.

Drama is easier to do because you just have to have the emotion and not get caught acting, but comedy is much harder.

When you're always onstage, you really have to focus on listening and reacting.

As an actor, you need to smile all the time, which is not easy.

Theatre is difficult. It's not that I'm afraid of doing 'one takes' or shots, but it's about being able to live one character for several hours on a daily basis!

I love doing emotional scenes. As I've had a perfect life, I don't really have much to pull from. But it's really fun and not that challenging. It's almost pretty easy. The hardest thing is to try and make people laugh. That's a really hard thing.

In a drama, you don't make a fool of yourself.

In theater, you're playing characters. You believe you're somebody else, and you're acting.

If I do a song where I'm angry, when it's time to perform it live I'm not mad, I'm happy. I'm at a concert. But I have to somehow drum up that rage. That's acting.

Acting is something I love to do. I love to perform and I love the art, the craft of it.

Acting is a mysterious process.

I'm still fighting really hard to get any role I get. If it's comedy, I go for the laughs. And if it's drama, I try to tell the truth, and try to play the real stakes of whatever scenario the character's in.

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.

When I started acting, it was really the way for me to be able to communicate.

To be in front of an audience and pretending, and to lie, this is the principle of acting.

To be honest, I am somebody that, as long as I have a character, it doesn't really matter if it's comedy or drama - I think timing is important in either. But for me, it's all about having a character to work on.

I have, I think to do a play a year is very good if you can afford the time and the energy because it's difficult to do, it's really the actors medium of course, because you're really out there and nobody's yelling cut so, yeah I have.

As an actor, you should be willing to take challenges.

With modeling, you pose. You want to look your best all the time. With acting, you have to be aware of the camera, but the more you show your imperfections, the better you're going to be.

There are a lot of things that make up a performance, a lot of technical things. It isn't always just about pulling it up from the darkest recesses of your mind or your heart. It's your experience and your observation.

Acting is not about dressing up. Acting is about stripping bare. The whole essence of learning lines is to forget them so you can make them sound like you thought of them that instant.

The hardest job an actor can do is all this pretend, all this screaming and being scared for your life.

To be perfectly honest, drama is a lot simpler than comedy.

I've always enjoyed acting. When we were younger, my sisters and I would put on plays for our parents.