I enrolled in an acting workshop and my first acting role was on the TV soap opera 'Melrose Place.'
You do some acting in a room for a few minutes, hopefully get something out of it that makes you a bit better at acting, and go home. Maybe the people in the room with you liked the acting you did. Maybe they didn't! Either way, it's not the end of the world; you'll be doing this again soon.
I was not a trained actor.
I remember going to acting class, so certain that no one's ever going to know my name.
When I was 15, 16, I studied with Stella Adler at the Conservatory of Acting, then I stopped again and went to the Actors Studio when I was 18.
I met my agent through a casting director here in Wilmington after I auditioned for a Disney movie.
Working with Nawazudin Siddiqui was like an acting workshop. It helped me become a more confident person.
Kylie and I were both taking piano lessons at the time and didn't think of acting. A friend rang mum up and said, 'How about bringing Kylie and Danielle in because they might be right for the part?'
Nothing is better than showing up twice a week, acting like a 12 year-old for two hours, and then going home.
In Jaipur, I did almost everything from regional theatre to Shakespeare's plays. But when I shifted to Mumbai, I joined Anupam Kher's academy, Actor Prepares, to hone my acting skills.
Somehow I got to be one of five or six actors that the directors would use as guinea pigs at this directing colloquium, where people pay to listen to and watch the directors direct.
I would probably go so far as to say that I couldn't act before I met Richard Ayoade.
After going to theater school, and then subsequently dropping out, I would say that when I first went to Chicago and learned long-form improv, that was a far better acting workshop than any acting school I've been to.
I learnt acting in Delhi from Barry John, who also taught Shah Rukh Khan.
I trained in Texas at Nikki Pederson Talent Academy.
The thing about me is I have a great little acting school. I teach about 125 students.
I was 19 or 20 when I was confused whether to take up films as a career. At that juncture, I enrolled in an acting workshop and then eventually realised I was destined to be in films.
When I first started, I would go to Weist-Barron, and I studied with Rita Litton and ACTeen. For teenagers, it's a really, really great school. We did a lot of on-camera stuff, so you see yourself and what you do on camera.
In the summer of 2009, I was at the Shakespeare lab at the public theater in New York.
There are so many good actors who just keep waiting for good opportunities.
It was a treat to work with Sarmad Sehbai. I wish actors had more teachers like him.
When I got out of high school, I was working in restaurants in New York City, when I heard Bill Anderson from The Neighborhood Playhouse was doing private lessons. I started taking classes, and it was a lot of improv and Meisner and repetition.
I enjoyed acting at school and went to an acting workshop for kids in Nottingham. It was twice a week after school and free to go to - ITV subsidised it. Every now and again, a casting director would turn up. 'Peak Practice' became a rite of passage for us. It was the first job I had.
If you're an actor and you don't get cast in stuff a lot, then put together a show or hold play-reading nights at your apartment. Make your own opportunities.
I ended up going to America for an acting workshop, and everything sort of kicked off from there.
