I get too involved with my job. If I was to do anything besides acting, I would be a fireman or a beat cop. I'd do a regular job.
Directing is kind of like acting through other people. You see moments and you see things and if you don't see the actors hit it, you paint in those little spaces and tell them what direction to go in.
I would never defend a cop - though I did on a few private cases, when cops were acting not as cops but as private citizens.
My father's ashes are not yet interred.strangely, I find the fact that he isn't properly laid to rest helps me when I'm doingthis play.
I started doing [acting] for a living, no one really warned me about the amount of traveling I would do. I always thought everything was shot in Los Angeles.
What our profession is all about is interacting with people.
Look up the definition of rejection in the dictionary, get really comfortable with it, and then maybe you can go into acting.
I really started acting when I was 12 when I was doing this television show called 'Jack & Bobby.'
It was always acting, singing and dancing that I loved.
Could I see him acting as Warren Beatty directed, and what would that be like? When you see him as those characters, once you get to know him, there is so much of him in them. In fact, I saw so much of him in them that it made me laugh.
When it's working, what acting is really about is getting into the essence of a moment in a creative, joyous way - through whatever frees you up.
When I get to my deathbed, I don't want to take my last breath and say, Well, how glorious. I've left the world my acting credits. I won't even think that.
If I don't have to act, I'd rather not. I'd rather not act cold. I'd rather actually be cold. That's my weird way of acting. If the door is supposed to be locked, I'd rather have it locked. But of course, most of the time, we have to act, and that's okay, too.
There is a guilty pleasure in being rude and knowing that it's acting rather than you. But you get the same release as if you were being rude in life.
Hollywood is something imagined ...acting is something crafted.
I call this book The Intent to Live because great actors don't seem to be acting, they seem to be actually living.
On stage I just have to be myself. In acting you have to be so many other people.
I'd been doing some light-beer commercials for Budweiser and Coors, and I was doing stand-up comedy. I wanted to get into the acting world, and my agent sent me on audition and they liked it.
I love music and I love acting. I always keep that in the forefront, not all the other distractions around me.
It's obvious to say you can't please everybody and there are always going to be people who are going to say, I just don't like you. There's nothing I can do about that. I'm aware, probably much more aware than my harshest critic, of what my own problems are with my acting ability. I'm very, very critical of myself, and I don't ever want to not be.
I've always approached acting from a passion point of view. It's what I love to do. The fact that we get paid is just a bonus.
Acting is about enhancing your life, not representing something that's missing.
Being a Kapoor, acting is genetic. My sister paved the way for me when she became the first Kapoor girl to take up acting.
I love acting, and so whenever I get the opportunity to act, I'm happy. I'm easy to please when it comes to that kind of stuff. I don't know what I'd do without it.
My first paid acting job was a movie called Fandango. It also starred Kevin Costner.
