Nana Patekar Quotes

People tend to think that's your life when you're playing a role.

When I'm onstage, I'm acting.

When playing a role, I would feel more comfortable, as you're given a prescribed way of behaving. So, both Facebook and theatre provide contrived settings that provide the illusion of social interaction.

On every show that I have been on, I have played myself.

I'm an actor and this is a role I'm playing. But people can get wacky.

I play a role in front of the cameras, just like in the movies.

I have never thought of myself as an actor.

I like to think that at the end of a show, you can just take your costume off and go to the pub.

I'm an actor, of course, so I like to show off.

Roles make the actor.

I think of myself as an actor.

Who I am gets in the way of people looking innocently at the parts I play.

I didn't get here for my acting... but I love show business.

I can't take the theater side out of myself.

As an actor you're used to being the focus of attention.

What we are as actors, for better and for worse, is visible.

When I get onstage in a play, I feel very safe, very protected, very fulfilled.

I'm an actor - it's not brain surgery. If I do my job right, people won't ask for their money back.

A woman is like an actress: she's always onstage.

I'm actually just an actor.

I'm an actor, and when I close the door at home I'm kind of off-duty.

In my work, I want to convince people that I'm that character. If they know everything about Lesley Manville - private life, all of that stuff - it doesn't help. So the kind of anonymity I enjoy is key.

When I'm playing a character, I don't wear perfume.

That was my original dream, anyway, to be on stage. I think the stage is an actor's place because actors, it belongs to you.

Anyone who goes on the stage is a show-off, aren't they? Acting's weird.