Rishi Kapoor Quotes

I'm an eternal realist and the success rate for being an actor is pretty low.

It's definitely an exciting time to be an actress.

Seems to me that this business, for actors anyway, is not so much about whether or not you do good work. It's about whether or not you get the chance to do good work.

Once you've gotten the job, there's nothing to it. If you're an actor, you're an actor. Doing it is not the hard part. The hard part is getting to do it.

What I've learnt being an actor is that you've got to be lucky. I got less lucky, and nobody was interested. If a part came up, it would be for the main corpse's friend's brother who was having problems with his marriage.

To me, the stand up part in my life is great. I know I can do that. When I get an acting chance, I'm really thrilled.

I think you have to be really lucky to pick the sort of roles you want to do.

It's weird when auditioning for roles, because a lot of my mates go out for the same roles. You don't want to know that you're beating someone to the role.

Acting is so much about waiting... waiting for an audition, waiting for the right part to come along. It's nice to write your own thing, write about what you're feeling and then go out and perform them. It's a nice thing to have and not get bored.

There are some roles you just don't say 'no' to. Those compass points: you get them so rarely as an actress.

I did the whole struggling actor thing and lucked into being in the right place at the right time and getting involved in the first 'High School Musical.'

But all actors go through the process, it's hit and miss, you have achievement and failure.

Being an actor is really, really hard, no matter how you slice it.

Once I moved to Chicago and started trying to get acting jobs, I just tended to book more things that were comedically based than anything else. I never had the preconceived notion, 'I will be a comedic actor.' I just thought, 'I'll go into acting and see what kind of work I can get.'

As actors, it's so hard to get your hopes up about anything.

I'd love to be on a TV series someday, but I believe you get the jobs that you're meant to get. If the job that I'm meant to get is another musical or another play or film or TV show, I'm just happy to keep working.

If in my twenties I'd gotten one of the two-dozen roles that I did screen tests for and almost got, I think I would have become bored with the awards circuit, the whole hype machine.

I don't exactly set out to only play creepy characters, it's just that a lot of those roles come my way.

I had been asked to start going out for roles here and there throughout my career, but I know that acting is a hard thing; it takes a lot of work, and I was traveling. I didn't have the time to really focus on it, so I really waited for the right project to come along.

I think, being an actor, it's just a relief every time you get a part.

I think for any actor, for the roles they deeply, truly want? They always have to audition for them.

The great thing as an actor is that I don't know what my agent is going to call me with next.

In the States, you have a little bit of freedom to audition for different kinds of roles.

I'm trying to treat it as a hobby. Making bread and butter as an actor is tough.

I'm on the list that I thought I'd never be on. I'm not sitting here thinking, 'God, I might get this part' or 'is it too late for me to play Hamlet?' It's really about: who do I get to work with? There's so many people on that list.