Alia Bhatt Quotes

Like, that was weird in 'Hamlet 2,' because I played myself there, fully myself, but then I realized, 'Oh, I'm not playing myself. I'm some weird version of myself.' So as an actress, you're always playing something, I don't even know who I am, how could I become me? I don't know what that is.

At least when you're acting you can be someone. In front of the camera you have to be yourself. And who am I?

Acting is a very important thing for me, and I love doing it. But when I'm acting, I spend 14 hours a day and months a time being someone else. When I'm singing, I just get to be me.

All the things you can do to prepare for a role that free you, in the moment, are great. You have this muscle memory for things. You don't have to act it as much, once you've done it enough.

The best advice my dad ever gave me is that acting is believing. Acting is not acting. It isn't putting on a face and dancing around in a mask. It's believing that you are that character and playing him as if it were a normal day in the life of that character.

I want a part where I can use my own hair, my own voice, and maybe even be literate.

The theater, for me, has always been a place where I'm free to be more creative, a place to sharpen my tools.

Preparation is definitely important, but it depends on the kinds of roles I do. Like, I completely identify with my character in 'Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani.' I had to be myself and I didn't have to actually prepare for it.

Often, when I finish a film, I'll have that feeling inside me: 'I never want to do this ever again. I don't want to pretend anymore. I want to be myself and do that.'

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.

I've played four characters now, my latest one being Sandor the gypsy.

In acting, you have to pull from real-life situations, from people, to help develop a character.

Acting is trying to be absolutely truthful; to get audiences to believe that you are a dean, when, actually, not only are you not the dean, but if you walked into the building they'd probably throw you out. That's very hard.

Acting is way of making yourself exist.

I know what I love about acting - and it's the creative process.

Onstage I'm the one in control - I'm not at the mercy of how an editor chooses to put the scene together later. I can do things onstage that I would never do in real life. It's very freeing.

The wonderful thing about acting is that you can use all of your talents and interests in your work.

Acting is constant exploration.

I try to have a true line in every character I play.

As an actor, it's always fun when you're able to feel like there's freedom to explore things and try out jokes and be funny.

It's challenging to judge a TV show because you don't have any lines. You just have to be yourself.

Unlike films, theatre allows you to experiment as an actor, which is fulfilling.

I believe an actor should be shameless.

I feel like acting is a ton of fun. It's the freest and most alive you can be.

I'm more comfortable doing a character than being myself.