Quotes About Acting

The acting in 'Downton Abbey' has been consistently excellent across the board.

After 'Melancholia' and 'On the Road,' I wanted to do a comedy. And I did so many comedies when I was younger, but if you're not consistently in those movies, people don't always think of you for them.

Every time you work is a challenge. There's a constant worry about it, and it's a side of acting I don't like.

You're lucky enough in television to always be at it, to always be doing it. It's like you're constantly that person, always, all the time. It gets to be like clockwork.

There is a little bit of me in every part I do... I'm not really good enough to completely construct an all-new character.

When an actor constructs reality, it has to be riveting and entertaining. There has to be an emotional connect with the audience.

I consume a lot of television and a lot of movies, and I love watching other actors work and am just very inspired by it.

When I'm given a role, I'm consumed by a passion to bring to life a character that exists only on paper. I mull over the character for days and internalise his feelings.

Acting comes first. I would love to make an album. I was at an event... for Dionne Warwick, and we got to go in the studio and go crazy. I love singing, but it's very time consuming. I have to make time for it.

As actors, we are always playing other characters. It's so exhausting and time consuming to figure them out, so when you get the time to be yourself, you should take it.

I stay in contact with my castmates from 'Atlanta' almost every day.

Music is contagious and everywhere and democratic, and that's what drew me in. I was interested in acting and being a director, but one of the things that bored me about theatre was that it was not accessible to everyone.

Everybody thinks performance capture is about thrashing around and doing a lots of movement, but it's actually about being able to contain and think and be believed in a close-up, as much as anything else.

I want to do acting as much as I can. When you're on contract with a show, you can't really do other shows. It's hard to do film. I haven't had the opportunity to even audition much for films because I don't have an agent.

Contrast of emotions is definitely something interesting that you like to do as an actor.

My character in 'Saaho' is completely contrasting to my character in 'Baahubali,' and I am quite excited about it.

I'm an actor. I love acting and being able to use my love, my passion, to also contribute to making this a better society, a better democracy, and a better country.

'Vetri Selvan' is the first film where I play a conventional romantic role, which I found very challenging.

The conventional wisdom is that if you are gay, you cannot play the romantic straight lead in a movie.

If actors are trying to convey, in a smart way, the context of the scene, that becomes too self-conscious.

Acting is about finding truth and finding the way to convey the truth.

When I am in the sound booth, I am trying to convey as much as I can through just my voice.

Some actors merely have to appear before the camera and they are able to convey exactly what the director wants.

It's interesting to play a role where you don't really have to preoccupy yourself with any need to convince yourself that you're not acting.