Kalki Koechlin Quotes

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.

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

Of all the mediums, theatre is the one where you really need to have something to say - because it's just you, the words, and the space.

Theatre polished me as an artist.

I am always excited to be an actor. If I wasn't, I would be acting, and the audience wouldn't watch me.

There's a tremendous amount to be gained from being a performer, and being an artist, and being an actor.

What I always loved about theater is that that's an experience that a company of actors just sinks itself into for weeks, and you really get to work on the material, and by the time you're in front of an audience, you really own it.

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.

Acting for screen is very different from acting on stage, and then obviously when you dance... everything is a physical embodiment. But the discipline is the same approach. You have to take both things seriously; nothing well-crafted is by mistake.

An actor should be able to create the universe in the palm of his hand.

I'm the man who sits behind a table and tells true stories from his life. I'm also an actor. I was trained as an actor at Emerson College, and I use that training to play myself.

The reason why I hate working in theatre is the tedium of memorisation. But once that is done, then you feast on this never-ending meal. If you play it correctly, every night is fraught with very high stakes that are very difficult to find in everyday life.

In film, you're always using your tools, your body, your voice, your emotions, but onstage, you use them in a different way.

I love acting. It's an interesting challenge to make something that doesn't exist appear like it's happening, and to do it in a real way.

I've been on stage plenty of times, and one of the things about being a stage actress is you have a 3-month run to revisit the story nightly and play it again.

I'm an actor, and I'm supposed to reflect real people.

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.

I love actors, and I love good acting. I love what actors do when they're good, and I'm a big acting fan.

It's important to listen to the actor who is there on the stage and living it.

With acting, there's a certain amount of independence you have within the framework of the storytelling. When it's done well, it's a collaborative medium.

I really consider acting a high art.

Being an actor, I've thought about being in the male gaze.

When you're on stage, you're playing to whoever is in the back of the room, and TV and film is so much more detailed and nuanced, but I think that's what I always wanted to do. As much as I love theater and musical theater and would love to do it again, I really love the subtleties of film and theater acting.

Having grown up in musical theatre, I know what works and what doesn't.

Theatre is really an actor's playground.