Satya Bhabha Quotes

The process changes slightly from role to role. Obviously, there are different things you're called on to do. You're not digging deep for Basher Tarr like I was for Paul Rusesabagina, but at the end of the day it's still all make-believe and you still are trying as realistically as you can to depict these characters.

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

I like to prepare for my roles well, so you can call me a method actor to an extent.

I think that different actors go about their preparation differently, but when it comes to acting, I use my imagination.

I'm not the kind of actor that would know what my character had for breakfast last Tuesday.

I work a lot; I love to compose, ponder, and take notes when preparing for a role. I cut all the scenes, collate the images, form the character and shape its personality, then I make meticulous notes and transcribe each scene on my notebook.

When I do film, I really take on roles and I take on characters.

Creating a role is an interesting thing - each show or each situation is different.

I think that I've still not been successful at playing the role of the retired actor, and I'd like to work on that.

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

Your job as an actor is to piece together whatever you've learned in your training, or whatever you have experienced in your life, to piece together a person.

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

I perform a role as per the requirements of the script. When it comes to work, I don't have any personal choice with regards to glam or de-glam. As an actor, I enjoy doing everything.

As an actor, I'm more interested in characters the longer I have lived with them.

Most actors do that. They fill in the blanks. You don't want to play a cipher.

For any role, I pretty much always go to the script, first and foremost.

I'm the sort of actor who likes to talk about what we're going to do.

I don't really prepare for roles. I just kind of do them!

Part of the fun of acting is the research, finding out about other people.

In acting class, teachers talk about how the 'givens' of a situation help define a character.

It's your job as an actor to fill out the blanks. I love doing that. To fill in the bones.

Being an actor myself I realize that all actors believe they are qualified to play any role. If you showed me a script with a black woman character I would tell you that I could do it. That is what we do. We act as if we are someone else.

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.

All actors do that. Should do that and do that. For the most part. I say all actors. I'm exaggerating, but you know who does and who doesn't. Vince is a wonderful young actor who knows his work and did a beautiful job on this film.

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.