Quotes About Immersion

Good books, written by men or women, are ones in which you lose consciousness of the person writing the sentences.

There starts to be an overlap between you and the character.

For me, as an actor, the challenge is mostly before the film starts when you have to get into the psychology of the character.

Separation, I think, in an early-stage company or a startup environment is not a good thing. You need to basically live and breathe the entire environment.

It's great that I can look up a fact instantly on my cellphone, but I miss the days in my room with a dog-eared, text-heavy paperback, immersed in the statistics of crime and punishment and lunacy, completely alone with the narrative of human depravity.

Coming from a background of being onstage, you're onstage for two and a half hours and you're in it for the whole time no matter what you're doing. Even if you don't have a line, you have to stay in it.

I just remembered songs my grandmother taught me, and songs that I learned for the recordings. But, then I learned to speak Italian. When I was there, I hired a professor who stayed with me 24 hours a day. She wouldn't let me speak a word of English.

Going under the water and staying under the water for periods of time gives me claustrophobia.

For me, it's all about staying present and just being in the moment.

I try to create an environment where, when we step onto the set, we're all in character.

Emotionally, I think you're going on a journey with the character, so you have to be present for each and every scene, and for me,one thing I like to do is step away between takes, away from everyone else, listen to some music, and just get into that place to help me perform.

My father's an opera nut, and my stepmother used to work at the Metropolitan Opera, so I had a lot of opera immersion. I like the grandness and pretention of it.

I don't ever recall being nervous before performing because I've already stepped into the shoes and the clothes of the character.

The odd thing is if you asked me to do the accent now I would find it very difficult unless I was also playing that part, because I associate it so much with entering into the role and stepping into someone else's shoes.

A traveler enters the world into which he travels, but a tourist brings his own world with him and never sees the one he's in.

If 'time is of the essence', and the existentialist will insist that it is, then part of who we are is our manner of living the 'already' and the 'not yet' of our existence, made concrete by how we handle our immersion in the everyday.

After half a day in a place—especially a foreign country—you've learned more than from all the books and articles you've read.

For someone who gets into the character and shoots for long hours, it is pretty difficult to cut off from the character and return to their normal life.

Normally when I read, I don't like music playing.

Since one of my roles is that of a con man, I actually mingled with a few pickpockets in north Chennai to get a hang of their body language and mindset.

I did all of California from north to south. I did Florida from north to south. I went to the Midwest. I spent time discovering the culture because I thought I was going to stay in America for only two years. Then I decided to come to New York.

I act like a native in North America. I eat sliders in Detroit.

Well, I couldn't speak English before I went to Belfast. So I learned English with a Northern Irish accent.

I love movies. And sometimes it will be a case where I don't notice music.