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I'm such a fan of actors and also enjoy watching them work so that I can help their acting in any way I can. Sometimes it walks a tricky line because you want to be entertaining to some degree. But honesty is always entertaining to me. I'm a big Woody Allen and Spike Lee fan, and I find their films to be very honest.

Acting is my passion but everyone was against it. But mom insisted that her daughter would do what she wanted, no matter how brilliant a student she was.

Comedy is far more difficult, as it involves improvisation and impromptu acting, and as an actor, that came as a welcome break for me.

Acting was always on my mind so when the offer came to me I happily agreed to do it.

If there is any sense of order to the universe, acting is what I am meant to do. I'm not manufactured. I know acting isn't real, that it's temporary. If there is any theme to the roles I play, it is emotional vulnerability and availability.

I went to an acting school in Delhi after doing 15 films as a hero! I went there because I wanted to know what they teach in acting school since I had not done any formal training. I learnt a lot.

It's a misconception that singers in Punjab use music as a backup in case their acting fails. For me, singing is the front, it's not the backup, it was acting that happened by chance.

Acting is therapy. It keeps you in contact with your feelings.

Acting is about communicating, reacting, and sharing - and friendship is about all of those things, too.

Acting is kind of an escape. You get to live life as someone else, and when you're living this life as someone else, you don't really have time to think about your own life.

When something tragic happens, all we want to do is escape it. Acting has always been kind of a twisted way of escaping my own problems and my own reality.

A lot of what I do outside acting is really just for me.

Acting was never on agenda.

I am romantic, witty, naughty... and I show that in my acting.

You see, I've never really studied acting.

It's two totally different things. Comedy is more therapeutic. Acting is more of an escape.

Acting had become something I did and did well - but didn't particularly enjoy.

It's strange: I always try to do the best acting job I can do under the imaginary circumstances of my working position at any given time. But it's terrible when you know it's going bad, and you know it immediately. But you just have to still try to do the best job you can.

For my money, acting has been over-intellectualized. It's only playing.

I don't have a huge acting background at all.

Acting is very much an all-or-nothing job.