Dilshad Vadsaria Quotes

Acting is the most communicative thing I can imagine doing.

What a writer can do, what a fiction writer or a poet or an essay writer can do is re-engage people with their own humanity.

All art to me is an empathetic act. Whoever's telling a story is trying to transfer emotion into someone else.

There's something about getting onstage in a play where the actor tells the story, beginning, middle, and end, the way they want to tell it. For me, it's the most powerful place to be, and it's the most empowering place to be.

That's what I love about acting and love and drama and art: that humanness we all share.

It's communication - that's what theatre is all about.

People make music to get a reaction. Music is communication.

Singing is about telling a story. When you are onstage, you get to be your own self... When acting, you're someone else.

I grew up wanting to be a writer for theatre.

Work in the theater sharpened my verse and my cinema.

Acting allows me to tell a lot of stories, you know start at the beginning, finish at the end, and tell everything in between. Modelling is just an image.

I always wanted to tell stories and act.

It's great fun if you get a good piece of writing and you can pretend to be someone else, tell a story that needs to be told, make some kind of connection. I've always fancied myself as a leading man, but I really doubt whether anyone else sees me that way.

Dance and theatre afforded me the opportunity to discover my passion for acting, for telling stories.

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

I've always been drawn to stories and telling them; whether it was through being a part of theater when I was a little kid, or film, or with music, there's just been an innate desire to feel that connection.

When you do a really good play, the audience and the performers are looking into the same looking glass, the same microscope. And the specimen they are looking at is human life and that's why I do it, that's why I like it.

Each song, you're telling a story and acting.

As far as I'm concerned, an audience is an audience. Whether it's an audience in Hull or the National Theatre, that's who you play to. It's not money - it's good to get some, but that's not why I do it. You do it because you have to, to tell a story.

It's just poetry, beauty and love. How hard can that be to act?

My first love is definitely performing, but I just love storytelling, and that's another aspect of it.

The connective tissue between storytelling, advice, and comedy is passion.

That's what's amazing about songwriting: you can write a story that everyone connects to.

I was drawn to performing and to storytelling.

I remember how as I kid I would love stories of every kind - whether they were narrated in school or what I read in books. Storytelling would always appeal to me, I would take part in poetry reciting, dramatics, choreography and debates. There was this fascination for performance, which finally culminated in a professional sphere.