Aditi Rao Hydari Quotes

I've worked with a lot of really fine actors, both on stage and on screen. The level of their game lifts me up and brings the level of my game up to theirs. Always. It's like a constant upgrade.

A lot of times you have very ego-driven actors and actresses that stay in their little world, and when you have a scene together, your worlds meet for a moment. But I don't think that makes for a very good cohesion.

When you work with good actors, you feed off each others' energies.

When you're working with good people it brings good things out in you.

It is hard sometimes to see how other actors are working when you are working with them.

And at the same time, you are of course a performer, but it's very important that you understand that your role as a performer is to get the best performance from those wonderful colleagues that you have the chance to work with.

Acting with someone else, I can't tell how good they are because if I'm doing my job right, I'm just fully invested in everything that person's saying.

There's only so much you can do until you get on set and see the aesthetics of what you're dealing with. Then you see what the other players are giving to you. It's all about the transfer of energy between different actors.

You hope and pray that you'll get involved with a director that you understand and who has the same sensibility as you do and knows how to push you and bring out the best in you.

I love working with children and this young boy, Thomas Sangster, is quite a remarkable young actor. He raises your game, you know. He certainly raised mine.

One's performance is often heightened by the brilliance and generosity of other actors.

Directing, I get all kinds of inspiration. It's working with people. It's a lot more fun.

Elia Kazan understood my problems. He was able to bring out the very best in me. He gave me credit for my intelligence.

Reese Witherspoon made me better. Just working with her, being with her, I learned so much. I want to be like her.

As a director, you see something in someone; you know it's there, you just got to go get it. You do that with any actor. That's your job.

You are inspired to give a better performance when there are good actors with you.

I hope that everyone has the opportunity, whatever their work environment may be, to be surrounded by people that they respect and are inspired by.

Working with a good artiste is always a pleasure. If you get a reaction from your co-star, then you get the space to perform well.

I can only be inspired if I'm working with people that I really respect.

The variable that really boosts your performance is the actors around you.

As an actor, it's always important to understand what the director is after. That, to me, is my job. When I'm acting, I like to ask a lot of questions and understand exactly why the director is doing what they're doing, so that I can provide him or her with the ingredients that they need to get the scene that they want. It's not to challenge them, in any way. It's just so that I can do my job best.

When you hit your strive, and you feel confident in what you're doing and in your process, you really want to do more and try lots of different things. I've also really worked on my breathing, which is a funny thing to talk about, if you're not an actor. I think breathing is actually the key to a lot of opening up of other parts of yourself that you haven't used, for any job, but particularly in acting.

Sometimes, you run into trouble as an actor when you're not working with someone who is collaborative or doesn't bring themselves to the piece, and you sort of have to start worrying about yourself and protecting what works for you in the scene. I never had to do that in this movie because it was sort of this trapeze act.

Leaders have to search for the heart on a team, because the person who has it can bring out the best in everybody else.

If you wait for inspiration, you're not a writer, but a waiter.