Sanam Saeed Quotes

I stand in the mirror, look at the plays and try to say them to myself to get ready for the next day.

I enjoy working with actors so much and having the chance to be surprised by them.

Some actors don't even read the stage directions at all.

Good looks may be enough for a heroine, but to become an artiste, you need at least a working knowledge of the language.

For any role, I pretty much always go to the script, first and foremost.

I like a lot of takes. I just go on until the actors get it right.

When you get to the point where you know the material so well and you know the character so well that you can just sort of play off of whoever your reader is - that's the best feeling at an audition.

It's an acting job - acting natural.

It's nice when someone knows their lines.

It's sort of the most important thing for acting, is to listen to the person you're dealing with.

Acting takes so much energy.

There are two main jobs in acting - the first one is to be a good actor, and the second one is to convince everyone that you're a good actor.

The art of acting is to pitch good. You do the pitching and hope that the other person catches the ball and does some good pitching back to you.

I'm an actor. I'll take a lead if it's offered. The really good actors can fill a character, no matter what the role is. A good leading man is a character actor; a good character actor can be a leading man.

I think all great actors - and I don't classify myself as one of them, incidentally - but I think all great actors listen well and I've learned that from a lot of the very good actors with whom I've worked - to really listen to what people say.

I've never committed to a role without a script.

Good acting is about being as natural and calm as possible. These days producers have such definite ideas that you have to be prepared to do whatever they ask.

People ask me, 'How do you remember your lines?' That's nothing. That is the least of my concerns.

I'd never done a straight play before, never, and it was very hard work - really, really hard work. It was dense, really wordy, and I was determined to learn every word of it - not just skip over bits and pieces.

Actors get bored.

Oh yes. I'm an actor, so I just learn my lines, and show up and do it. I gave it a little bit of thought.

Memorizing dialogue has always come easy and quickly to me. My wife Eileen is also very helpful. She gives me choices, and asks me questions, and runs my lines with me.

An actor has to embody a role.

I feel that I am a good actor.

I'm an actor. I try to play a character in a really cool story, the very best I can.