Sudeep Quotes

I need to react to a script, to feel strongly about it in some way. And I need it to be a complex character for sure. And also, I think a lot about what kind of audience there is for the film, what they're looking for and ways to connect with them in the playing of a character.

Did Anthony Hopkins really have to be a serial killer to be in 'Silence of the Lambs?,' I don't think so, no. It's called acting, people.

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.

Once you don't smile on film, they say, 'Let's have that bloke who doesn't smile.'

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've given every maid I've portrayed soul and heart.

I love playing the vamp, and I get sent out for a lot of that stuff, maybe because I do it well.

Anytime you're on camera, 95 percent of whatever character you're playing, unless you're Daniel Day-Lewis - or maybe, no, pretty much just him - you're cast because you're you.

On the stage you develop a character that's different from yourself. In a film they're always saying, 'Walk over here. Say this line. Be you.'

It was sort of his 'Brando' moment - his very 'method' moment. He just absorbed it and continued on.

I can play very annoying girl, very lost girl and then all the things in the spectrum between.

When you watch it, you're like, Wow. I look like that. But it doesn't feel like that at all. It was about communicating with Gale Harold and getting across what I wanted to say about the character.

Mum asks why I am so often cast in adulterous roles. I think it must be because I am fairly flirty.

I don't think playing a villain is my greatest talent.

My act is an exaggeration of a part of me. I'm much more expressive off stage.

I can play a doctor, and I can play a thug.

I play a tough cop in 'Very Good' and the role is quite similar to Dhaya Nayak, Mumbai's popular encounter specialist. I have made all efforts to fit the role.

As an actor, you are either emulating someone else, or some version of yourself.

I suppose I'm what you'd called a character actress, so, often, my characters are quite extreme.

It is a tough job to portray a character and make it believable on screen.

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.

Playing Mo-yeon was satisfying because I could be irritable. I normally can't be like that in public because of my image.

I don't choose characters according to looks. I'm comfortable doing both glamorous and non-glamorous roles.

I used to think the actor's job was immersing himself completely in another personality.

I have been a funny kid growing up but every one thought I was a serious person. I think it has to do with the choice of my films such as 'Zakhm,' 'Kalyug' and 'Traffic Signal.'