Gautam Rode Quotes

What I love to do requires portraying different characters, and you have to separate your life from the role.

Soaps are the best. They really are. If you can do a soap, well, you can do anything. You have to learn pages of dialogue very quickly.

There are not that many jobs as an actor where you don't get to know what your character will be doing from episode to episode.

Being an actor, we're so dependent on the writers.

When what you do is play characters every day, all day, I wasn't really interested in playing a pop star on the weekends.

For me, as an actor, going from TV to film was interesting because TV and film are two very different things.

I don't think I had a script on 'King Kong.' But usually you read a script and then you go and audition for it. It's rare when there's no script. I sort of like the latter better, because I'm more successful at it.

I'm an actor, and I love the art of creating a character.

As an actress, emotions are my business, my stock-in-trade. As such, I've dealt with them nearly all my life.

The thing about being an actor is that you're acting. It's not that big of a deal of to play someone different from yourself.

This acting was very hard work.

With acting, you might have a month of very intense work, but you've got a lot of downtime as well.

In terms of acting, I've been acting from a very young age. I've always loved it and wanted to have a career in acting or something to do with it.

To be an actor, a true actor, you have to be brokenhearted.

I never felt being an actor or making a movie was an easy thing to do.

I don't mind being identified as any character as long as I'm doing a good job as an actor. I have done all kinds of roles - from an editor, judge, police officer, murderer to a corrupt businessman.

That's the great thing about being an actor, you get to try out lots of things for your roles.

As an actor, it's amazing to get to create different characters.

Drama school introduced me to a world I had no idea about. I wasn't brought up in a literary household at all.

I'm still fighting really hard to get any role I get. If it's comedy, I go for the laughs. And if it's drama, I try to tell the truth, and try to play the real stakes of whatever scenario the character's in.

I don't live that much with the character. I find it hard enough having to spend so many hours with the character during the day.

If you're not acting, you're not an actor.

I auditioned for 'The Office,' and I don't know if it was a role I could do, but I liked the character. You do one take, and you're reading with a person who's just sitting in a chair and not really... you're not playing off someone, which is what I like to do. I like to play around and find the moment.

I really wanted to do 'Modern Family,' and I really liked the script, and I liked the people.

I love playing other people's work. I love acting.