Sonali Bendre Quotes

As an actor, there are so many different people to hide behind.

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.

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

Acting is what I do with who I am.

I am me. I've always been a character, and my character's story lives into pro wrestling.

I've been doing this since I was 10 years old, inhabiting different people and playing different roles.

On 'Old School,' I was not an actor, I was Snoop Dogg, so I came to the set with a whole different vibe, and a different crew of people. And on 'Starsky and Hutch,' I was more of an actor. I wasn't Snoop Dogg, the rapper.

As actors, we get to hide. You can change your hair and your accent, and it's not you. You have tricks, these masks.

I became an actor so I didn't have to be myself.

The trick is not to become somebody else. You become somebody else when you're in front of a camera or when you're on stage. There are some people who carry it all the time. That, to me, is not acting.

I think I'm always adopting a persona. That's how I look at pop music. I don't feel like I have to be myself. I feel like I have to be true to myself, but I don't have to show an exact picture of who I am.

I'm not really an impersonator.

Clint Eastwood, to me, is Clint Eastwood. He's great at being Clint Eastwood. But, I don't know how to be that guy. I just don't know how to be one person.

I'm really excited, because the character, Jules, is a really awesome character. I'm really excited to be playing her, and overall, I'm really excited to be getting back to my acting roots.

Acting is like a Halloween mask that you put on.

I mean, look, I wear makeup in films. I don't wear makeup in real life. It's just part of the gig, that's all.

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.

Even on the stage, I've played a bit of a persona, and the persona I played was a much brasher, more arrogant, less aware, less educated version of me.

When I am doing a fictional show, I become someone else. Reality shows keep you close to who you really are.

The key is to be a personality outside of the ring and then bring that personality with you inside the ring.

I create this persona for the show. And that's what it is. I'm an act.

I think in every character there are aspects of yourself that you bring to it. But then it would be really boring to just play yourself.

The costume that I wear on the show is a little snug and doesn't leave a whole lot to the imagination. I don't have a problem with it because of the way this character's been written.

Transformational acting was the reason why I became an actor in the first place. Your hair and make-up and the costume are the tools that you have, and it makes you feel like that person. When you look in the mirror, you don't feel like yourself, and it changes the way you move. I love that stuff.

Don't kid yourself; the guy who's onstage in ripped-up jeans is wearing as much a costume as I am.