Erik Estrada Quotes

I have nothing but admiration for the actors on soap operas. It is unbelievably challenging to put out an hour show in one day.

Actors get bored.

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.

I never found it easy to learn my lines. It was slog, slog, slog.

We have table reads for every episode of 'Billions.' The core cast is smaller than the core cast on 'Orange Is the New Black,' so in that sense, it has more of a theater vibe.

Actors love... at the end of the day, stars are actors. They love performing. And the more challenges I feel that you end up giving stars on the sets, the happier they are.

Learn your lines so well that you never have to worry about them.

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

I don't have any specific criteria on doing a drama based on where and what country. If I like the storyline, I'll go for it.

What I love about working on 'Younger' is that it combines some of my favorite elements of both theatre and film.

I think the actor has two responsibilities. One is to be visually compelling, and the other to recite the lines as written by the writers.

I have done 'Shivalinga' because I liked the story. My character, especially, is very impressive.

Whenever I was done with a scene, I'd go back to my trailer, relax and go over my lines. I'd think, 'I can't wait to get out there.'

People assume that actors working in films won't have the time to do theatre. But I make sure that whenever I'm free, I watch a play.

I usually mug up my Telugu dialogues much before going to the sets every day.

The first and foremost criterion for me when selecting a film is the character I am playing, and then the director.

A film is made for actors and actresses, not for singers.

Generally, there's a lot of ad-lib involved with live TV and things like that, whereas with acting in front of the camera, it was, if you screwed up a line, well, you've got another take, and you also had a script to be able to study, so it wasn't all ad-lib and flying by the seat of your pants, which I like both aspects, actually.

My husband is an actor, and we don't talk about acting at home.

It made me proud to know I'd join a long gallery of actors covered in blood in movies.

I'm so OCD about prep work and learning lines and stuff.

I don't like scripts.

Actors are the most important. Performance is what matters. Nothing matters more than the actors; they have to perform. No one else can give life to the characters. Audiences must believe the characters as real and the moments as real.

All the characters play an important role. For me, as an actor, for my character to come out so beautifully, I would give all the credit to my co-actors, directors and writers.

I grew up in a lot of stage managers' booths, memorizing the lines. I'm sure I was the most annoying child in existence.