Sobhita Dhulipala Quotes

I was Aladdin, and then I was Captain Von Trapp from 'Sound Of Music' when I was 7 or 8, and then King Arthur. I was always the lead. I've always enjoyed being onstage, acting obnoxious, being someone that wasn't me, hiding behind a character.

Before I was known, I would go on stage and pretend I was other people. Once I pretended I was mentally handicapped. It was really wrong. One time I was a bad magician. And one time I pretended I was a Christian comic.

I love to act and put on a show, but you're playing a character all the time. For music, it's really just me being myself.

They have become part of us in that if we get dressed up as them, we don't actually have to have a script. You can just become them. You just become nervy.

An actor is someone who pretends to be somebody else. A movie star is somebody who pretends that somebody else is them.

I choose roles that are not me.

As a singer I tried on all these hats, these voices, these clothes, and eventually out came me.

I wanted to imbue Ziggy with real flesh and blood and muscle, and it was imperative that I find Ziggy and be him.

I love performing. I can get to be that person I always wanted to be - godlike.

Singing is an incredible expression and something that is important to me, but where I feel comfortable with how much I reveal about myself is acting. I enjoy the characters, the costumes, the wigs and just being a chameleon.

As long as I can wear a wig I can be any character, and in real life I can be myself.

You don't become the character.

I'm now learning how to distinguish when I'm acting and when I'm not acting - offstage as well as onstage.

Actors use who they are to be someone else, but I would hate to ever think I'm playing myself. It's imagining being someone else that is the key motivating thing for me. So when people want to know about me, it makes me a bit unnerved.

That's one of the great things about acting - you get to pretend you're somebody else, which is great if you get bored with yourself.

There are a lot of different facets to my personality that I don't use all the time in my house, or in everyday life, that I can experience and share when I'm on a stage.

I started in theatre, and for me, it was all about transformation. You transform into the character that you're playing.

What acting offered me was the chance to be many other people.

I'm clearly doing what I want. I hope kids can see my act and feel like they can be slightly more comfortable in their own skin because I'm being so ridiculously comfortable in mine. I'm not that comfortable in my skin the moment I walk offstage. But I try to project that while I'm on it.

Some actors say they don't know themselves at all, and that's why they act: because they can disappear into other people.

Acting is what I do with who I am.

When I started playing music, I was more of a character. Now I'm just me with a cool outfit on. I'm more comfortable being myself.

I find it easy to be myself as an actor.

I think the stage is the place where I feel most comfortable and most myself.

When I'm on stage I become a different beast.