More Quotes by Adhir Kalyan
I usually just go on Google and spend my hours just Googling Jennifer Beals. I think it's possible that I have a slightly unordinary obsession with her. YouTube videos. Interviews with her. Pictures I put on my desktop and my phone.
Adhir Kalyan
Usually
Google
Spend
Hours
Googling
Jennifer
Beals
Possible
Slightly
Unordinary
Obsession
YouTube
Interviews
Pictures
Desktop
Phone
Growing up in this post-apartheid era, the first generation of teens in South Africa living in this new democracy, I often found myself feeling different. I was often the only person of color in an otherwise all-white school. And within the Indian community, because of my training with an English acting teacher, my accent was very different.
Adhir Kalyan
Growing
Post-apartheid
Generation
Teens
South Africa
Democracy
Found
Different
Person
Otherwise
All-white
School
Community
Training
English
Acting
Teacher
Accent
I was raised in a spirit of the importance of service to your fellow man. My mom is a senator back home in South Africa. My father is a very caring and generous individual.
Adhir Kalyan
Mom
Father
Home
Caring
Men
Spirit
Individual
My Mom
Importance
South Africa
Generous
Fellow Man
Raised
Fellows
Senators
South
Back Home
Perhaps because my background is theatrical, I have a great affinity with the classics. Hamlet has always been a character of great interest to me and a character I would really love to play. Or a character in a Tennessee Williams play, maybe Tom in 'The Glass Menagerie.
Adhir Kalyan
Perhaps
Background
Theatrical
Affinity
Classics
Hamlet
Character
Interest
Tennessee
Williams
Play
Glass
Menagerie
All of the actors that have served to me as inspiration over the years have been those more associated with dramatic work who have, in turn, been able to embody their characters and lose themselves in those characters that they create.
If I hadn't left South Africa, I felt I was at risk of being pigeonholed. I looked around and saw actors who, 10 to 15 years into their careers, were still playing stereotypical Afrikaans characters, stereotyped Indian characters. That was not something that I wanted for myself.
Adhir Kalyan
If I Hadn't
South Africa
Risk
Pigeonholed
Looked
Around
Careers
Still
Playing
Stereotypical
Afrikaans
Characters
Stereotyped
Indian
Something
Wanted
Myself