Quotes About Acting

Being in the profession of acting, I definitely have to be a people's person and socialise when it's an absolute necessity.

Apart from popular actors like Mammootty and Mohanlal, I knew nothing about Malayalam, but I got to learn so many things which became a strong base in my profession.

I don't act to prove anything to anyone. I like acting. It is the only profession I know.

I've never been out with any of the cast of Coronation Street. We're all very close friends so it's very much a professional attitude.

The reason why I wanted to be an actor was to understand different people and cultures.

That's why I wanted to be an actor - to be everybody. Through all those different people I can learn about myself.

It is their job as actors to play different people. Should only a doctor play a doctor's role?

You can be, like, a totally different person on camera, and it's fun. You can take on another character, and it's awesome.

When I see myself on screen, I don't even feel like it's me - it's like it's a completely different person.

Acting just seems to be a way of getting into a different place. It seems like a really creative place to be.

The U.K. and the U.S. are in different places. Don't get me wrong - I am there for the U.K. industry, and I am always searching for more roles to play there, but it's sparse.

As I got older, I went to school. I started doing plays, I learned about the craft of acting, and I started to love acting for different reasons. I think I started to love acting because it brought me closer to people and made me more compassionate.

I've been doing this since I was 10 years old, inhabiting different people and playing different roles.

I try to avoid typecasting by doing different roles.

I've been lucky enough to play many different roles from darker characters to family orientated shows to comedy.

I don't know if I've ever played a character who's close to me. There have been some elements of myself in different roles. Sometimes, I show one side of myself and then completely conceal the other.

For me, as an actor, just to keep acting and to keep being able to work and to do different roles and challenging roles, that's something I'd love to do.

I used to do a lot of repertory theater. You're playing different roles all the time, and I love that.

When I first started acting, I knew that you have to learn different skills for different roles.

I've played so many different roles over more than 15 years, but I still hope to play more various characters.

I like to play different roles in TV serials and do not want to create a particular image.

Playing character roles gives me the freedom to try out different roles, including negative ones or elderly ones. When one is playing the lead role, clearly there are limitations and responsibilities.

Performing in front of the camera is a different thing, and shooting a whole film is another.

Making a pretty picture, an image, is a completely different thing from acting to camera.