Poorna Quotes & Sayings

I've always wanted to be an actor, but I didn't know how to become one. — Poorna Jagannathan

I could teach an eighth-grader in twenty minutes how to brief a case. Yet for all three years in most law schools the casebook method of learning the law is still in. The matriculating young lawyer is as qualified to represent a client with the education he has suffered through as a doctor who has never seen a patient, who has never held a scalpel in his hand and who learns surgery by having read text books about it and becomes skilled in surgery, if ever, after having stacked up piles of corpses who represent his pathetic learning process. — Gerry Spence

Making you smile gives me life. Making you laugh gives me hope. Making you happy is all I want, other than to keep you. — Staci Hart

But our hope does not lie in enforcing our ethic upon secular governments. We can't legislate the kingdom of God into existence. — Preston Sprinkle

The thing about the performance part ... starting with improv and standup, you're starting with yourself as the character, and I don't feel as much like, 'Oh, I'm a vessel for -' I feel like someone who calls themselves an actor is a vessel. — Ilana Glazer

The best way to show an emotion is not through a character's words, but their smallest expressions - to take what an actor would visually do and try putting that down on the page for the reader to 'see.' — Susanna Kearsley

Things work out the way they're meant to — Danielle Steel

The first time my parents found out I was acting was when a friend told them they had just come back from a play I was in. — Poorna Jagannathan

I think the best thing I ever did was never tell anyone I wanted to be an actor. I find if you tell people what you're dreaming about, they'll usually come up with lots of reasons to not chase your dreams. — Poorna Jagannathan

I always loved acting and improv and sketch comedy and theater, which I did at a local youth theater. — Emma Stone

I find myself changing my entire lifestyle every three years or so, and I'm comfortable in being an outsider. I have grown up like that. — Poorna Jagannathan