Arfi Lamba Quotes

There are a whole bunch of roles where people say, 'Oh, you're playing yourself.' I guess it's kind of a compliment. Or people say, 'Oh, man, you just roll out of bed and do that.' The work is to make it look effortless. That's the hard part.

I loved the stage and then grew to love the camera.

Acting is like lying. The art of lying well. I'm paid to tell elaborate lies.

Acting is something I love to do. I love to perform and I love the art, the craft of it.

Theatre is the principal job of an actor. An actor's job is to tell a story to someone in a room. TV and film can be great and I really love doing it, but it is a different way of telling a story.

I like a lot of takes. I just go on until the actors get it right.

I enjoy making films, but my heart is in the stage. Every night you have to be on. There's no second take.

It's an acting job - acting natural.

Acting takes so much energy.

This is going to sound cheesy, but with acting there are so many tools. When you're on camera, you're using all of it. You're using the voice, you're using your body, you're using wardrobe, all of it, but it's funny, once you take all of those things away, you realize how much you rely on the physicality.

When on the set of a film, you have to play natural for entire scenes in a very unnatural environment. You have to express emotions and interact with other actors and also use your voice.

The art of acting is to pitch good. You do the pitching and hope that the other person catches the ball and does some good pitching back to you.

I love working with great actors.

We're actors. We're the opposite of people.

I tried softball and soccer. I just didn't take as much of a liking to it as I did sitting in a movie theater and watching people recreate a story, and doing it myself, as well.

Work in the theater sharpened my verse and my cinema.

I am really not of the school of naturalism. I like style, and you can use more style in theater than in film roles. I love to sink my teeth into a part.

If you're saying the same line 10 times and making it look like you just came up with it, that's acting.

I love being funny! I started in the theater when I was 9 and, believe it or not, always played the funny part!

Honestly, I really, really love making movies. It's so much fun, and I love losing myself in the moment and just being there with other actors. When you're truly in the moment and you're feeding each other, it's such an exciting thing to be a part of.

I love Bollywood as a viewer, but going in front of the camera and singing and dancing is not my thing.

The most difficult thing to do is drama.

I always envisioned working in film and in theater. Theater and film are not, they're not in any way substitutable. What I love about theater is so different from what I love about film, and I enjoy the craft of both.

In films people basically work for the camera, you know, and that's why actors can hate each other and not be speaking to each other and still look as if they're in love because really they're loving the camera loving them.

I think theater is a great training ground; I think it's a great opportunity to play.