Ranbir Kapoor Quotes

What's interesting about the process of acting is how often you don't know what you're doing.

All that acting and all that stuff and emoting and crap will come after you know what you're doing. So when you get - when I get on stage, I don't have to think about it.

I usually don't say anything to the actors. It works better for me because when they come to the set, they are at the same time scared and excited because they are not well aware of what will happen.

I don't think of myself as an actress. I still think I'm fannying around in my mum's front room.

I don't think I would be a good actor! People enjoyed 'Dancing With the Stars' because I was myself, and every time they told me to say something, I would say my own words, so I don't think I could follow a script well!

I hardly knew anything when I first arrived. I had to learn how to act as I went along. After about a year I got a grip on what acting was all about and it started coming straight from my heart; I wasn't just saying the words any longer.

I've always been fairly confident in my acting.

I'm a task-oriented actor. A pretender. And I try to invent my process anew each time I make a new project. So I frown on any method.

The thing about acting is that it's fairly random. At the end of the day you take what drifts past you or what's given to you.

I'm an actor. I play roles in films and theaters. I don't act out, and I don't play people.

I'm a lazy actor, lazier than you would think. I don't usually do a lot of research.

Once you are in the character, you should let your inner actor take over you.

I have no ambitions to act, because I don't know how to.

I can't say I'm confident in my abilities as an actor.

My strength lies in prepping. I'm not someone who can just walk onto the set and perform.

I'm the sort of actor who likes to talk about what we're going to do.

I have had a lot of training as an actor, but it's very different than being on set.

When you're acting in a scene, you're focused on doing the scene. You can't break character and go, 'Oh my God, I love what you're doing!'

Having done a lot of theater, I'm used to sustaining characters over long periods of time.

Acting is not glamorous. It's not. Anybody who wants to get into acting for the glamour is in for a hard time.

It's very good for me to remember what actors go through.

The trick to acting is not to show off; it's to think the thoughts of the character. I was lucky because when I started acting, it was doing jobs above pubs. I learned to act in anonymity, so by the time people saw me, I knew what I was doing. I was crap for years, but no one saw me being crap. It's a trade you learn.

Thankfully, I have a background as an actor, and you learn how to live in that world of not knowing what's going to happen next.

As an actor, it's amazing to get to create different characters.

I like acting; I like being lost in the creative process.