Radhika Pandit Quotes

When I got cast in 'Rocky IV,' I had never seen a film camera before. And here I was in this boxing movie.

When somebody says, 'Action,' I act. When they say, 'Cut,' that's my job. I've done it.

Stage is definitely my home first and foremost - I still feel like I'm yet to earn my stripes on set.

I never took any theater lessons. So when I started to do movies, I was 14.

In my first film, Five Corners, I played a very scary, violent crazed character, and it exposed me to a lot of directors.

I just wanted to do it all. Film and television was so strange to me because I didn't grow up in the business, I didn't know anything about it, and I had never been on set before. But, from the minute I got on set and did 'Old School,' I was like, 'I want to do this!'

Once I sign up for a film, I just go by the director's instructions.

But since I did my first film with Shammi Kapoor ji, he is my favourite. I was very shy to face the camera. In my first few shots with Shammi chacha, I was very nervous. He was very patient with me and guided me in every shot.

Ninety-eight per cent of actors who actually make a living do so in front of a camera.

I love actors. That's my bread and butter, and I got to work with some amazing ones on '12 Years'.

I come from the theater, and I've done a lot of character work in the theater, but Hollywood stuff in film and TV, they've been more leading lady/ingenue type roles.

I want to be on set and die hearing those words: Where's Peter?

I had done my first picture and I didn't have anything to do for awhile. I was asked to come back to New York and do Bus Stop in the role of the cowboy opposite Kim Stanley.

I've been fortunate to get involved with 'Short Term 12.' I was just a young teenager on the Internet, clicking on anything that had the word 'actor' in it. One day, someone called me in for a movie audition.

I am one of those people who is not very patient in the makeup chair. I have been offered movies like 'Planet of the Apes' and stuff like 'The Grinch Who Stole Christmas' and I turned them down.

Being an actor on a movie set is like going to the playground at recess.

I started off in a small theatre performance company and worked my way into commercials.

I got an agent and went up for the part of my first film, Five Gates to Hell.

I got to work with Cillian Murphy and my dad, Jim Broadbent and Jodie Whittaker on 'Perrier's Bounty.' It was a small part, but it was really special.

I was 28 when I played the role of a 65 year old man in my first film.

In the theater, you act more of the time. In the movies, you get to act maybe 20 or 30 minutes of the day. I love acting in movies. It's just different.

I'm pretty sure I became an actress solely because of craft services. When you're a kid and there's a lady walking around with a tray of chocolate and other free candy, that's the best reason to be in the industry!

I did 'Bridge to Terabithia' when I was around 6 years old, but for my first movie, I was 5.

Sometimes you see a movie and you can really feel that it's an actor putting in a performance. Someone said 'cut' and they're back in their trailer having a coffee or getting their hair done.

One of the first speaking roles I had was in a film called 'Svengali', with Peter O'Toole and Elizabeth Ashley. I was a waiter, and I had about three lines. And I was ready! I had been around people like that, and I knew they were just actors. All the work I had done, it was all there, and I felt like I knew all the mechanics.