Mahesh Babu Quotes

I just want to keep working with great actors and try to be good at what I do.

You create a blueprint of your best performance, and you're happiest the night you surpass that blueprint. That won't happen that often, but it will happen. It's like sculpting: you keep refining. When you have a piece that is yours, that is just you, that becomes obsessive; you think about it all the time.

I've constantly done my best to get the best material I can get with the best directors I can get to direct me.

I want to keep working with the best, keep going and be a better actor each time I go and dive into something.

I admire Cate Blanchett as an actor: that's my ultimate goal. To be as good as she is!

Practice does not make perfect. Only perfect practice makes perfect.

I don't know if people realize how hard I work, because sometimes people ask me for my secret. The truth is that I don't have any secrets apart from the fact that I've been directing theater and film for twenty years and trying at every stage to make my work better.

A diva is someone who is a perfectionist, who does her best in her craft.

You have to hone your craft, but you also have to be born with a certain amount of talent, and I never took the talent for granted - I've always worked really hard to be as good as I could be.

One thing that stays the same is my passion for music. Other than that, I've become more dedicated. I think that I really work much harder than I ever did when I first started at my craft; I'm more dedicated, and I have become a perfectionist.

Bipasha is a very sincere and professional actor.

I'm not a practice player.

I play to see what I can accomplish. I don't play for fun. I play to see how good I can be.

When you look at Beyonce, every interview she does is just perfect delivery, perfect execution, and the thing is, she has honed that skill down.

My thing is to play as well as I can possibly can.

Anything is an art if you do it at the level of an art.

Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right or better.

When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.

You can have a knack for dancing, but you still have to practice till your feet are bleeding to be worthy of being in front of an audience.

You don't know how much artists go through to make it look so easy. It's all in the practice.

What people don't realize is that professionals are sensational because of the fundamentals.

If I don't practice the way I should, then I won't play the way that I know I can.

Really, acting is like anything else. The more time you put in, the more you learn and the more you can give back to the industry.

If one takes pride in one's craft, you won't let a good thing die. Risking it through not pushing hard enough is not a humility.

Get in theater, really work your craft. Get really, really good so that when people say your name, your name is associated with quality, with integrity.