Best Onscreen Quotes to Inspire, Uplift & Motivate You Every Day

“Many people from the industry come up to me and say 'We don't see you onscreen much.' But where are the scripts? Do you think I am not sitting in my office and waiting for something like 'Matru' to happen to me? I would love to do four such films in a year.”

“Often our onscreen personas are different from who we are. Actors like Kamal Haasan, who is such a genius, has never played a role close to what he is in real life.”

“While I was doing the first season of 'Girl In The City,' a lot of people remembered me through my character name. None of them knew my real name, and my onscreen name, Meera, became my identity.”

“If the script is boring when I read it, I am sure it would be boring onscreen, too.”

“When you have actors like Salman, Nawazuddin Siddiqui and Kareena Kapoor Khan, you life as a director is easier because they are such brilliant actors, there is a certain energy they bring onscreen.”

“If you understand a scene well, it is not hard to translate it onscreen.”

“'Jai Lava Kusa' is my best look onscreen.”

“When we have trans actors play trans characters, people can look onscreen and say, 'OK, this is what trans is.'”

“I have been in my fair share of both onscreen and off screen fights.”

“I think I've got something when I'm onscreen, but that's nothing to do with acting or talent.”

“I'm trying to be what I want to see more of: Black women onscreen.”

“I don't think that there is anything unreal when it comes to romance onscreen. It's just a little more glorifying. But whatever you feel in real life about love, is just what we try to show on the silver screen as well.”

“For me, like, obviously, I want to see myself onscreen.”

“No one really has any idea about me. To me, what I give you is what happens onscreen, and past that, anything you're coming up with in your own head, you're creating in your own mind.”

“What do actors really want? To be great actors? Yes, but you can't buy talent, so it's best to leave the word 'great' out of it. I think to be believed, onstage or onscreen, is the one hope that all actors share.”

“I grew up in L.A., and I don't think I've seen L.A. onscreen in a way that felt real to me. There are definitely movies, but they are few and far between.”

“I think it is easier to hear my voice than see myself onscreen, particularly as the years progress. Watching myself onscreen becomes less and less enthralling.”

“Just like my onscreen character Twinkle, I'm extremely scared of rats.”

“I've always liked to watch myself onscreen because that's how I learn.”

“I look like a kid onscreen in most movies.”

“I always wanted to play a Punjabi girl because I always found them very colourful, in a way. There's always a spark to all the Punjabi girls I've seen onscreen.”

“A couple of my favorite actors are Don Cheadle, Jeffrey Wright, and, may he rest in peace, Philip Seymour Hoffman. I've had an opportunity to see all of them onscreen and onstage.”

“A script like 'The Sixth Sense' is fun to read: It's so well-written, and you get a vivid sense of what's going to be onscreen.”

“It is often difficult to watch yourself onscreen, especially 60-feet high. As an actor, it is an uncomfortable experience.”

“I seem to have the best onscreen mums.”

“Nobody wants to see a woman onscreen who is a wreck. That is pure, unadulterated, systemic misogyny.”

“I am like many of the women I have played onscreen.”