Quotes About Acting

I think the beautiful thing about acting is you don't really know who you are. You're able to be whatever you want any day during the week. So I really couldn't see myself being anything else.

'Sherlock' is beautifully done, if I may say so myself. Even if I wasn't in it, I would like the show.

I was very young when I became an actor: I was 19 years old.

I became an actor so I didn't have to be myself.

What was weird, as a 12-year-old actor, was being expected to behave like an adult while still being treated as a kid everywhere else.

Since Nandita Das comes from a different school of acting, I had to behave in a particular manner. Then with the boys - Rahul Dev, Purab Kohli and Akaash Saigal - it was another ball game.

When you live with a character in your mind, after a while you start to behave like them, act like them and connect with them. That is how acting happens for me.

I was quite badly behaved at school - I remember cutting class - and acting was a way of channelling energy.

I always laugh a lot when I see the dramas that I end up doing. I see myself behaving very seriously and I'm like, 'What is this?'

When I act, I try to understand the character, why she's behaving like that.

I've never been interested in being famous. I enjoy acting. That's what's important to me.

Being funny has always mattered a lot to me. It's why I started acting - to make my friends laugh.

Some actors try to play parts and do things they can't do. Being funny is one of them. Being funny's hard.

Any actor who is being honest will admit there's always a small or large part of the real you in every character. It's impossible not to have that.

I wasn't perfect and didn't have it together. I felt alone. So through acting, I decided to be a shape shifter and with every role become the character instead of being myself. It meant about 10 years of no one knowing I was the same person in every movie.

I'm more comfortable doing a character than being myself.

If the goal is to be believable when you're acting, I've got the best idea of what that believability might look and feel like. And because you need a normal guy in a comedy so that the eccentricities can pop, that's a good part for me.

The role of an actor is to make every character believable.

However good an actor may be, he can't make a scene believable on his own, so it has to be a team work.

As an actor, you have to be able to put yourself into the character since your job is literally making the character and the situation he is in believable.

I've always believed, maybe naively, that 'The play's the thing.'

I've always believed in trying to be as open as possible. I think it almost comes with the job - if you can bare your emotions, it makes for better acting.

I believed early and still believe that everybody who can act can do it already, just they don't know how and don't want to talk about it.

That's probably the biggest secret of acting: If the actor believes it themselves, they can make you believe it.