Radhika Apte Quotes

When I was ten, I saw 'Grease' on stage and thought: 'I want to be part of that; it looks like so much fun.' My mum enrolled me in a local theatre group, and it all went from there.

I love theatre because that is my foundation. So, if I had to make a choice in terms of where I get the most fulfillments, it would be theatre. The reaction is so immediate, unlike with TV and film.

I grew up seeing a lot of theatre, and it was theatre that really seduced me into acting - not film or television.

I have been involved with theatre since I was 13. I never seriously thought I would get into movies though I had every intention of continuing with theatre.

I auditioned for a play in fifth grade, and that's when I knew that I wanted to be a singer and performer.

I'd love to do just straight theatre. I'd love to do film and television, too.

I went to a performance of 'The Crucible' at the Guthrie when I was a sophomore in high school, and I knew right away that that's what I wanted to do.

I first wanted to be an actress after seeing a play - not a movie.

My father was an actor, and we have the most important theatre company in Montreal.

I'm ready for theatre. I'm ready for dramas, period stuff, films. I want to achieve everything.

I went to theatre school for four years and just wanted to do theatre. I had no ambition to be on TV or to be on camera. I just wanted to go to New York or London and be on stage... I did a lot of theatre in Montreal, got involved in TV in Toronto and then moved to L.A. I hope that film and TV will take me back to theatre.

The Old Vic has always been first and foremost an actors' theatre, a home for great talent and memorable performances.

I started in the theater when I was 10, so I grew up in the theater and was very used to that, but I love movies and television, also, obviously.

Stage performing is a dying art form.

Actors on stage, you can go from playing a myriad of roles, from Shakespeare to a Eugene O'Neil drama, and it's the norm. I came up in a world where you're supposed to be able to do three things very well. Act, sing, dance, paint, do something. The emphasis was on versatility.

This nation loves singing and loves acting.

We don't have a culture of realistic acting in India.

You make the money in movies and TV so you can do theater. I do a play a year... somewhere.

'On the Twentieth Century' was always something I wanted to do because of Kristin Chenoweth.

I want to be back on Broadway one day. That's a dream of mine. There's nothing like live theater, and I think it's so important for me to be able to be on stage with an audience that responds.

My main ambitions, really, are in the theatre.

You get used to being lazy doing films, but classical theatre's going to finish me off.

There's a great charm in theatre; I enjoyed doing it for twelve years and did lots of plays. At this chapter of my life, I am a cinema actor, and I would like to continue to be so, and at some point I would return to the theatre.

I'd love to do more theatre and acting. I attended a performing arts high school in London, and it would be great to be able to put all of that training to use again.

I sort of grew up doing theater. And that's how I got into film, actually.