In Hitchcock's eyes the movement was dramatic, not the acting. When he wanted the audience to be moved, he moved the camera. He was a subtle human being, and he was also the best director I have ever worked with.
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.
I'm acting when I serve as a hostess, when I run my wig business. I was born to act, and life itself is the greatest part.
One of the reasons I took up acting was to learn to be more human, to get in touch with human emotions.
That's what I love about acting and love and drama and art: that humanness we all share.
When I was trying to get into acting, to have been a model was about as low as you could get in the acting profession. But that wasn't sexism, it was snobbery, which I knew and took very humbly.
Acting is the most wildly overpaid position imaginable.
The failure of The Cable Guy impacted my career. I had to start writing and acting again.
I've always been an improviser. I was one before I knew even what the word was... And acting, that I've been doing since I was 5.
There's so much we can't express in our day-to-day interaction with people because it's considered inappropriate. And acting is all about being inappropriate.
My role as Ewan McGregor's girlfriend in the film 'Incendiary' ended up on the cutting-room floor, but at least I had two brilliant days of acting with Ewan.
My early acting was ingenue stuff.
I took up acting upon the insistence of my filmmaker father, Kasthuri Raja. But I am glad for it: sometimes one identifies one's calling; sometimes it singles one out.
Actors should be instinctive and spontaneous. If you think about acting, you're not going to be good.
I have no acting technique I act instinctively. That's why I can't play any role that isn't based on something in my life.
I find that the acting's getting easier - with experience, everything is more instinctual.
After all, as a taxpayer, if I'm acting as the insurer against losses, I should have the right to say what risks the insured can take.
The ultimate goal is to change Syria's behaviour on a variety of issues - on its interference in Lebanese internal affairs, on its support for Palestinian terrorist groups that oppose the Palestinian Authority, on, most importantly, acting as a land bridge between Iran and Hezbollah, where Hezbollah gets all its arms.
I've led three lives: the acting part, wife and mother - which is a career - and international relations. I'm proud of my career, the first one, and I'm proud of the other two, too.
My approach to acting is that I am totally intuitive. I read the script and I get it. If I don't get it, I can't do it.
