Quotes About Character

I don't want to be a diva champion.

Actors who say they can dive inside a character are either schizophrenic or lying.

I don't dive. I'm not a player who dives.

When it's a bigger character, and there's a lot going on for her, and there are all these different elements that go into the character, I just love being able to dive into it.

I'm not a diver. I know that.

I'm not a cheat. I'm not a diver.

During my engineering days, I learnt to value diversity, not to take shortcuts in life.

I think I have a job, which is to present a character in a story and entertain you and divert you with my work - that's it.

I think of myself as an actor or a personality, the personality of Divine, an entertainer.

I like success, but I don't believe in it at the expense of other stuff. It's more important to stay in my skin.

Your job as an actor is to piece together whatever you've learned in your training, or whatever you have experienced in your life, to piece together a person.

I'm a big believer in sort of sense memory, like using something that you've experienced in order to put yourself in the position that the character is in.

There is a strength of character in the people who have, by and large, never experienced comfort.

I always do what the character demands, and I love to experiment with my looks.

You have more time to work in movies. My experience with movies is that you have more time to experiment with the character and camera angles and things like that.

When it comes to dressing up, I am more like my character Meera from 'Girl In The City,' I like to experiment with my looks once in a while.

Better to be a loving person without knowing how you got there, than an expert no one can stand to be around.

But I'm attracted to roles where I get to really go in and explore a character.

There is no need to change my image. I like my image, and the audience likes it, too. I am very comfortable with the kind of roles I do, and as I am not doing the same character or playing myself. I explore my characters; I don't brood over my broody image.

I think it's a bit short-sighted to play any character and not explore, in some respects, the way they act when things get really bad.

I have been doing action roles for a while and really wanted to explore the other side of my personality on screen.

Every time I get a role, or the opportunity to explore a role, I look at it, and I think, 'What is the story we're trying to tell here?'

I have never played a role in which someone's dark side shouldn't be explored.

Part of the reason of being an actor is you like playing other people's lives and exploring all the psychologies in that and the emotions.