Shweta Tripathi Quotes

I did 'Shameless' on Showtime, and I felt like I really tried to go super-method with that, and it would just make my days really hard to get in and out of character.

I usually can find a way to do a character to make it real and work. But sometimes it's a struggle sustaining that, because there's such a level of personal involvement and personal, physical, and emotional distraughtness.

Every actor has to love and loathe the character he plays.

When you are developing a character you have to bring so much of yourself to the role.

I'm not the kind of actress that goes home with the character. I mean, you're thinking about the work or the next day's scenes, but not staying in character. But as a film goes on, you become more and more fragile, emotionally. And physically too, actually.

I could not be one of those actors who stays in character all day long. I'd go mad.

I'm affected by the characters I play, and sometimes they're hard to live with.

When I have to do an emotional scene, I sometimes feel drained right before doing it.

It's only over time that you get to exploring or adding nuances to the character. Like my part in 'Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara' - I am so not the person who wears high heels and totters about like a poodle.

'Heirs' became an emotional experience for me. I had a hard time bringing out my emotions in the series. I used all my physical and emotional energy to bring out all that acting.

I'm certainly not one of those actors who remain in a dark place the entire time in order to be doing the scene. I sort of come in and out of it. It can be to the detriment of my performance sometimes!

Because I was able to submerge myself into the character, I didn't have to go back and forth. You don't have to work hard to bring emotions. It all just comes naturally, you're there living it.

When I play a villain, I usually get home and sleep straight through the night. It's physically and emotionally draining.

All good actors are unpredictable, and a little crazy in a good way, because they feel more secure playing other people than themselves.

I'm not the kind of actor that can go completely cold into an emotional scene. I have to transport myself emotionally by whatever means possible, and that basically means you carry the situation with you all week, all episode or all day beforehand.

As an actor, you're sort of the court-appointed lawyer for the character.

Ultimately, the idea of acting is to understand the people you're playing, and then where they're coming from is not so mystifying. You've got to detox a bit after, though.

When I act, a part of me goes into the character I am playing.

I'm almost tempted, when I'm playing a real person, not to meet them. Afterwards, maybe. But, the job is the same. You still have to show up on screen and be alive and real and all that stuff.

As an actor, you are aware of how a role can seep into your real life.

The actor becomes an emotional athlete. The process is painful - my personal life suffers.

In my career, there have been three things that were challenging: playing gay; playing a Jewish woman; and playing Chekhov. The scariest part was playing Chekhov!

You take what you know, and you put it through your own prism. If I play characters that break down or cry, it's Gary Oldman crying; it's not the character crying.

When you have to get into the character each morning, give it your voice, your face, it was torture.

I don't believe actors who say they don't bleed into their characters. It's absolutely impossible not to.