Quotes About Acting

In Mumbai, you have to act in real life, too.

I laugh much more during takes than I do during real life. Maybe because you're not supposed to. I've ruined many takes because I will lose it.

When you're a child, and you're growing up, and you're mimicking a certain character, or you're trying to live and breathe a certain character on set for eight years that are also your formative years, you oftentimes take a lot of who you're playing into your real life and kind of become that thing.

I think it's important to be friends with the person you have to kiss onstage in front of a hundred people. You might not be friends in real life - especially if you're in high school - but you need to at least be 'secret friends' for it to work. Try to be comfortable with each other.

I think I started out just loving the attention. But that's changed into a real love and passion for my profession. Acting has never lost that challenge and excitement for me.

I always had a real love of children's presenting, and I was lucky enough to do that and have an acting career alongside it.

I love attempting to play real people. I like to try and have dramatic moments as well as comedic moments, and my favorite thing is when those two lines are blurred.

I've made many films and only a few times I've played real people.

I've played real people before, but I never knew them.

People have said, 'You don't need to do any more biopics. You don't need to play any more real people.' I don't agree with that.

'Gob' is a character that I enjoy playing immensely because I have so much freedom to take his dim-wittedness to all sorts of low levels. I find him interesting because when you see real people who are completely self-unaware, it boggles your mind.

I try to play real people who inspire me through something in their journey.

I've played quite a lot of real people, and it carries a special responsibility.

I think some cases are different than others, but all of the child actors that I have encountered, as well as myself, are real kids. I mean we do all the things that kids do. We're normal. We just like to do different things. We like to act and make people feel happy or sad, but we're 'real' people.

Docudrama is not really my game, but it's interesting to play real people; it's interesting to play 'real.'

I don't have any special approach for playing dark characters. That's because I never looked at them as dark characters per se. For me, they were real people.

Things like 'The Office,' and arguably shows like 'The Only Way Is Essex,' are comedies, just using real people in real situations.

I rarely play a real person, because I don't think I'm a good imitator.

When you're playing a real person, there's a balance between playing the person in the script and playing the person as he was in life. You have to be respectful and true to who that person was, but at the same time tell the story in the film.

But when you work with the director and the real person who is playing opposite you, it changes everything. You are almost in a working session. I was very comfortable, and that's maybe what helped me to get the part.

I like to play people that are real, a real person, and then something that's interesting with that person. I think it's a lot more challenging to do that than something that's extremely fantasy-like.

None of the characters I played was very close to me as a real person.

You feel a huge sense of responsibility when you're playing a real person.

As an actor, I love playing something kind of outside of who I am as a real person.