Quotes about Acting

Sometimes you can just step into the character, and you get all your feelings and emotions just from sympathizing with her and being her. But then, other times, you just have to resort back to anything that you've been through in your own life and try to play that.

I don't take roles I can't respect. If I can't find a reason to be respectful of the character, I won't do it because I couldn't do it justice.

'Serious acting' is the kind of acting that I don't ever respond to.

As an actor, it's exciting to play a role that's so far from what you are and to have people respond to it like a real human being!

Actors don't, in fact, retire, do they? It took me a while to remember that.

All the roles are for boys. The girls' roles are either small or all the same. There's just nothing interesting.

I'm doing 'Alvin and the Chipmunks.' I get to play the bad guy. That's a nice change of pace.

I needed an outlet in high school and came across painting. I've actually been painting longer than I've been acting. A movie is a collaborative effort, and with painting you just have yourself.

My parents' divorce left me with a lot of sadness and pain and acting, and especially humour, was my way of dealing with all that.

I am required to shoot for 'Jaiyam' only for five days in a month. Being able to speak Tamil fluently, I complete 25 episodes each time I visit Chennai.

Getting into the voice-over booth, there are no cameras and no inhibitions.

I think everything that any actor does, I would assume, is shaped by how and where they grew up.