Vijay Sethupathi Quotes

Every actor turns everything round to their character.

In 'There Will Be Blood,' my character was someone who was an actor himself almost. He had a rehearsed quality about him. He was a performance artist in a way.

I really enjoy playing intelligent characters. I'm more interested in that than just emotional kind of Mum characters.

Every character is challenging because, at the end of the day, you have to make something out of it.

The most vital thing for an actor to deliver a great performance is to be honest to the role he or she is playing.

Be it TV, films, or stage, I love substantial roles. The length of the character doesn't matter, but if the character is well thought, then I have to grab it.

I am a professional actor, and I don't go about moralizing about what the character does. Otherwise, seriously, why be an actor? You're not making some kind of social statement. That's not what actors do.

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

It's very, very important to me, no matter who the person is, to play that person with the utmost degree of truth that I'm able to bring. But playing a character like Jack Sparrow or Willy Wonka, that requires nothing but a degree of responsibility to the intent of the story - responsibility to the film-maker to deliver the goods.

What I truly get excited about is not the genre of a movie or the size of a part - it's character. I like to find characters.

I don't see a difference between playing a performance capture role and a live action role, they're just characters to me at the end of the day and I'm an actor who wants to explore those characters in fantastically written scripts. The only caveat is a good story is a good character.

For me, when I'm making a movie I like to stay in character throughout the day.

I try to get roles that challenge me in what I can do and who I think I can portray. For me, it's about creating characters with really fascinating stories, because that's what I like to watch on TV.

Each character I play has different dimensions. I'm not interested in words that pull them together.

As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.

Basically, I only play one character; I just play him at different volumes.

I gravitate to the roles, not necessarily television or film. It's just the fact that, for me, the most interesting roles have been in television.

You try, as an actor, to wear a mask; you're serving a story.

When you get to set, you don't try to play the plot; you just play the character.

As an actor, you can have your opinions, but our responsibility is telling the point of view of this one character.

Every time when I start preparing my character for a movie, I always try to make up and create my own background story for the role in order to fill it with life.

I always approach any character I do as being right.

Being an actor, I have no issues with a character being negative or positive as long as the role is substantial and meaty.

I go by the content of the script and not the length of the role.

I just don't play a character for the heck of it. Rather, I always look for a human element in every character that I play.