Randeep Hooda Quotes

In theater acting, you leave that night and what it was is what it was.

As rewarding as a good film role can be, there is just nothing like getting up on a stage and taking an audience for a ride.

When you're doing a play you get to go full speed ahead, all night, in front of an audience. It's a roller-coaster ride, responding to other actors, it feeds you.

Acting is the most communicative thing I can imagine doing.

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

So what's so enticing about doing a play is that you get to do that thing that got you into acting in the first place... There's a real attraction to being able to play, to just play. And that's something that theater affords you.

One of the exciting and enjoyable aspects of acting is being in the environment with another actor.

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.

You always hear actors say, 'Theater is my first love,' and it is. It's a time when you really get to do what you do, and there's not a lot of waiting around and interruption and not a lot of money involved - sometimes money really clouds the waters of creativity.

Acting is just a process of relaxation, actually. Knowing the text so well and trusting that the instinct and the subconscious mind, whatever you want to call it, is going to take over.

The muscles you flex in theater are muscles that you really need. I must always find a way to get back there. It's irreplaceable.

I have theatre-training, I love doing theatre, I've done Broadway.

In theater, there's a lot of work to do to build the characters. It's a great experience.

I love acting and really taking on another person, another life.

I still feel I belong to the theatre. There is nothing more challenging and exciting for an actor than performing before a live audience. The stage is the real testing ground for an actor.

I love theatre because it's just me and the audience. It's the litmus test in acting, to be able to sustain a performance over one, two or three hours.

It was a wonderful experience to live the life for a year; to spend all day doing Shakespeare and then do a play in the evening.

Why do you act? You act for an audience. In the theatre, you're in their presence. Film stars don't know what it is to have an audience.

I want to do primarily film and theater; I always want to do a play because it feeds my soul. It's like an exercise on stage.

You learn an incredible amount doing theatre, not just about to behave.

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

To be in theater you have to be a kind of psychologist, for you're always trying to understand character and motives.

I just enjoy acting, whatever area - theatre, film, television.

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.

The job of an actor is the same in all of them, really. I mean, you're just creating a character that you hope people will believe, so it doesn't make that much of a difference really.