Randeep Hooda Quotes

Even if I don't have a job, I work on plays and scenes.

My college training was primarily in theatre, with an eye to becoming a director, actor, or producer.

I grew up doing theatre and spent a long time as a playwright. I still think very visually when I write.

I'm a dramatist.

Work in the theater sharpened my verse and my cinema.

The theater, for me, has always been a place where I'm free to be more creative, a place to sharpen my tools.

I have a background in theater. At the time I read 'The Loved Ones' script, I was playing Catherine the Great of Russia onstage. Straight after that, I played Stella in 'A Streetcar Named Desire' and Isabella in 'Measure for Measure.'

I was quite young when I went to a drama workshop. I was around 9 or 10. I showed interest in it. I never saw it as a career. At around 16, I knew what I wanted to do.

I had no training in the theater. I did not study it but just did it.

I studied theater in college, and I absolutely knew that I loved acting, and I knew that I loved theater.

It was always acting, singing and dancing that I loved.

I was about 14 when I started with a theater group; it was like a stage group on the weekends alongside school. And it was run by a group of guys who'd been to drama school themselves in London. So they introduced us to techniques that they'd learn about, and they kind of informed us about improvisation and screenwriting and all of that stuff.

Actors are a race.

I've always said that theater was where I began, so everything I do now has a bit of my theater background in it. It was my training.

I'm a dramatist, so I really always wrote and directed at the same time because when I wrote something, I always put it on its feet. So I'm in love with actors; I always loved actors.

The fact that I wound up doing television and film was just a thing that happened, but I was trained for the theater, and what goes on in the theater has nothing to do with special effects.

I have always been interested in theater, as an actor and as someone who looks upon theater - at the risk of sounding pretentious - as an icon by which we measure society... My life has been in the theater to an extent. It's only an extension to write, direct, produce, whatever.

I took a theater class in college and loved it.

I always wanted to do theatre but never really took it up, as I was more inclined towards dance and films.

I just remember watching my first theater class, and I was like, 'Oh I can get up there,' like I could absolutely get up and do this every day and learn about it.

I loved drama class at school. I never took it seriously, as I was playing football. But maybe when I retire, I'll have a dabble.

To write, you have to know how to act and know about directing. To act, you also need to know how to write and direct.

Acting is an aesthetic career, which is annoying.

My college degree was in theater. But the real reason, if I have any success in that milieu, so to speak, is because I spent a lot of years directing, I spent a lot of years behind the camera.

I've been very fortunate. I've been in theater, films, television, radio, tragedy, comedy, farce - I've been in a musical and in music halls, in pantomime. I was once ringmaster in a circus.