Farhan Akhtar Quotes

I really enjoy singing, it's entirely different to acting because I'm just being myself.

I find singing as somebody else very liberating, it just frees me up.

I like acting when I can pick my own roles, and I do. It's fun. I like being creative, and it's a creative process.

I have intentionally not pursued musical theater.

Music is more Ray J. When you act, you're playing a different person. I like the music end, basically because it's me.

In music, I don't think there's any need to be an all-rounder and do everything yourself. Play to your strengths, and do what you feel. Or do whatever the material itself demands. In this case, I felt like it would benefit from me singing, and I wanted it to have that sound.

I wanted to be an actress since I was really, really small. I knew I didn't want to sing, and I didn't want to do music, and words were the ways I wanted to express myself.

I'm interested in human nature. That's why I chose to become an actor.

I try to bring my own style to a role, but I can't change how people think of me.

You have so much freedom as an actor in your character's choices, and I really learned to take advantage of that.

As an actor, you create your own ideas.

When I played Ivanhoe, kids used to come along and kick me because they thought I wore armour under my clothes. When I was Maverick, I was accepted as a cowboy. And in 'The Persuaders,' I became Lord Brett Sinclair. In other words, I am what I am for as long as I am.

It's funny because as much as I've done Dr. Freeman, I guess because I shave right afterwards, people don't recognize me necessarily as Dr. Freeman, whereas a small role like 'Garden State' or 'Get Him to the Greek', which is the funniest one to me, they're like, 'Hey, you're that dude!' and you're like, 'Oh my God!' Which is awesome.

What's funny is, when I made 'Saw,' I got accused of being a fascist, when I made 'Insidious,' I got accused of being godless, and now I made the 'Conjuring' films, and I'm accused of being too much God.

I think, like every actor, you've just to pick what you're interested in.

That's the wonderful thing about acting - you play a role. It's about humanity, rather than labeling.

I don't want everyone to think I'm just the girl who acts.

It's great to be an actor, and it's great to embody something more than who you are.

In Strapping, I had experimented with a creative catharsis under the assumption that art doesn't need to be accountable for itself, but I found out in very practical ways that you are accountable for everything you say. Everything you write, everything you do becomes not only your identity but your world resonates with it.

It was the reason why I became an actor - to tell new stories - and I stick to that, which is how I found 'Ghazi.'

I find it easy to be myself as an actor.

I'm writing songs that I want to sing.

As an actor, I don't have an agenda. I don't have to prove a point; I am not a bastion of a particular brand of cinema. I am doing what makes me happy.

I choose roles according to my sensibilities.

I see myself following my dream to keep singing and acting.