Bhumi Pednekar Quotes

Do theater. Because you'll develop a craft that you'll always have. It'll give you a chance to really learn how to act and you won't go into the world with a few measly tricks that will only carry you so far.

What's interesting about the process of acting is how often you don't know what you're doing.

Acting has been very useful to me.

As an actor, you have to be open to doing things where you look stupid, to be experimental.

To be a good actor you have to be something like a criminal, to be willing to break the rules to strive for something new.

I'm always practicing lines, researching, trying to be fresh, and fully trying to become the characters I play. That's how I roll.

I'm an actor. I play roles in films and theaters. I don't act out, and I don't play people.

I needed to do a play. I needed to learn how to act again, in a focused, all-encompassing way, and a really challenging play is a great way to do that.

Unlike films, theatre allows you to experiment as an actor, which is fulfilling.

It helps me as an actor to always be on top of my stuff.

I was always under the impression that acting is an innate gift. One of the first things I heard them say at Koothu-P-Pattarai was that actors should realise the art of acting through their training.

Acting has always been something I've wanted to get into. I think the best models are actors; you're taking on a character. In that sense, I have been acting for a long time. It didn't seem like a crazy transition.

I hate sitting around a table and talking about what a play might mean. I'm the person who's always like, 'Can we get up on our feet and just do it?'

Part of the fun of acting is the research, finding out about other people.

Sometimes I think of movie acting as advanced pretend.

In the acting world, you can really only become good by practicing and doing it, and I just think every time you walk onto a set you just become better and better. I think I'm in a totally different space than I was back then on that first movie set.

I love an acting challenge, and I love getting to sit down with my script and do all my drama work.

There is probably some great acting that goes on in movies from people who have never been on a stage, but if you are in for the long haul, you'd be missing an enormous part of what being an actor is if you're not part of theater.

Acting is a growing tick muscle. I really believe that it's similar to being a musician in that the more you practice it in any capacity, as much as you practice doing it every day, the better you get.

You know, back in acting school they always teach you, 'Make bold choices and look for activities that are interesting.'

Acting was never my first choice as a profession, but I came to terms with it when I decided I better buckle down and be the best I can be at it.

I truly love the rehearsal process, those eight hours a day! I really love actors.

My acting career began on the streets of New York. When I was a cop, I played many impressive roles, from derelict to a doctor, and my life often depended on my performance.

I don't know what that Method is. Acting is life, to me, and should be.

For me, acting is play. It's just play and it's playing make believe really, really well.