“I wasn't acting on passion. I was simply acting.”

“On her passion for acting, Mumtaz said “I used to feel a sort of emptiness before I started acting but not any longer… If I were not an actress, I’d have gone crazy.”

“I wasn't driven to acting by any inner compulsion. I was running away from the sporting goods business.”

“I mean I like to be passionate and sincere but I also like to have fun and act like a dork. Geeks unite.”

“It is a tremendous act of violence to begin anything. I am not able to begin. I simply skip what should be the beginning.”

“I have left Act I, for involution
And Act II. There, mired in complexity
I cannot write Act III.”

“I sighed. I hated the maze of bureaucracy with a passion, but I've found the best way to deal with it is to smile and act stupid. That way, no one gets confused.”

“I found at this point that effective acting wasn't what I wanted to do, that I didn't want to make effects, that I wanted, as it were, to leave an impression of a particular kind of human being.”

“Acting is not a lofty performance; it is simply the source of becoming and existing transparently. Acting, I find, is the art of frothing to the surface every raw and honest emotion. The moment an actor pretends, he loses his audience forever”

“The pleasure of talking is the inextinguishable passion of a woman, coeval with the act of breathing.”