Nushrat Bharucha Quotes

When I'm doing a play like 'Betrayal,' I have to be careful not to get stimulation overload.

I'd also like to do a play. I've never done theater, and constantly changing and refining a performance is something I'd like to do, even though it may sound like work to some people - and it probably is work.

This acting was very hard work.

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

As any actor will tell you, the hardest thing to do is small parts, because you focus all your attention and concentration on that small part. When you're playing the lead part, you don't have time to think about the whole of it, so you just have to steam on and get on with it.

As for acting, I took drama lessons when I was in high school.

Acting is really scary, but it's also challenging, fun, hard work. There's always an element of improvisation with every actor, even when something is really scripted.

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.

Good acting is consistency of performance.

I found acting tough; it takes a lot out of you if you have no technique.

Acting can be a really silly thing. It's like playing dress-up.

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

You'll never see a good performance out of me, in terms of a character, when the camera isn't rolling.

Even in college I tended to get cast in the comedies more. It was what I liked doing.

I do a lot of shows I've actually never seen, and I hadn't seen 'Castle' or 'Scandal,' but it's fun to just go into someone's world for eight days and do your thing, and then leave.

Acting is the hardest job in the entire world. By far. Harder than ditch digging.

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

There is a degree of role-playing in modeling, for sure, and you're also in a high-profile job - there are lots of similarities for sure. But when I'm acting, I've got to try and be present, and I've got to be emotionally committed to a character, both physically and intellectually.

Stevie Van Zandt could not walk on to a set and act. I don't know how actors do that! It's the scariest thing in the world.

As an actor, my job is to go to the set, read my scene and perform to the best of my abilities.

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

People assume that acting is an easy job. When you actually do it, you know how hard that is.

I'm not a trained actor. I surrender to my directors, and they make me act.

One of the most difficult things I find as an actor is to laugh on cue. It is way harder than crying or other emotions. It's sometimes harder than yawning on cue.

I do not want to work to stay busy. I want to feel excited and challenged with each character that I portray on-screen.