Quotes About Acting

An actor is an impersonator; he plays many different roles. If you played the same role all the time, God - that'd be a boring career. When you take on different roles and become a different person, that's called acting... It's a challenge.

I'm not an impersonator. I'm a lousy impersonator, actually.

I can pass myself off as a 'Duck Dynasty' impersonator a lot.

I like to read people's gestures and implement them into my acting.

It all started with the most basic level of Uta Hagen, right at the beginning. I'm like, 'Really? I came to grad school; I'm going to do the 'Respect for Acting'?' And I realized the importance of that, because it was really to just get you to get rid of everything. Get rid of everything you've learned and just start from the bottom up.

Doing 'Narcos' is a very, very important part of my life. I dedicated so much of my life to it.

I'm awfully tired of playing grieving people, which seems to have been my bent in the last five years. But it's an important part of my life and if I can express it in any way, I will - including doing seminars.

To be honest, I think music is such an important part of life, not just for acting.

Acting is a very important thing for me, and I love doing it. But when I'm acting, I spend 14 hours a day and months a time being someone else. When I'm singing, I just get to be me.

I know that I want to consistently return to doing plays. That's one of the most important things because I think it's the best place for me to learn how to act.

To an actor, what is most satisfying is that you perform your role as naturally and that people enjoy it, and more importantly, you enjoy it.

On the stage you can get away with imposing the emotions on yourself, but with film it really has to come from inside. It's much more intense.

It's absolutely true that it's almost impossible to play a character without having any affection for him.

When I was in high school, I tried too hard to be cool and to impress people, but playing all these different characters has helped me find myself again.

I feel Bengali directors have offered me characters which have a story to tell and not just impress people because of what I wear in the film. That's the kind of roles I want to do.

After seeing my performance in director T.V. Chandran's 'Aadum Koothu,' Cheran was impressed and immediately cast me in 'Maya Kannadi.'

I like when you are telling a story and fall into an impression.

I know acting is not impersonating, but I'm good with impressions. I can do impressions of people I know, and people I've been, and roles that I've acted before.

Acting is what I dreamed about when I was doing those impressions as a kid. Even if I didn't know it yet.

I want to play everything. I want to be like Christian Bale: I want to be able to be Batman and then, like, his character in 'The Fighter.' That is what is so impressive about really good actors, that they can be character actors and leading men at the same time.

It's not like I go around trying to imprint all the characters I play with Q.

You can do a lot of impromptu in dubbing. You can bring in different characters and different accents.

When I first started my acting career, I only knew what my acting teacher taught me. When a director gave me an impromptu direction, I didn't know what he wanted me to do, and I wanted to escape from the place.

I'm gonna be pretty honest; there wasn't a lot of improv allowed on 'Eclipse.'