Julie Benz Quotes

I think with every part you do, you become a better actor. I've learned from my experiences on that.

I sort of thought acting was just about arranging your face into emotions. I didn't realise it was about actually allowing yourself to feel the feelings, then letting your face follow. That was a big learning curve.

While in 'Komban' I played the mother of Karthi, a relatively quiet character, the mother role in 'Kanchana 2' was a stark contrast.

I think the biggest difficulty from transitioning from professional wrestling to the acting world is generally toning down your performance.

To get on a show where you're acting day in and day out for many, many hours - 15-16 hours sometimes - it hones your endurance, your ability to memorize, your ability to follow your instincts, because you don't have time to fret about your choices afterward.

You do some acting in a room for a few minutes, hopefully get something out of it that makes you a bit better at acting, and go home. Maybe the people in the room with you liked the acting you did. Maybe they didn't! Either way, it's not the end of the world; you'll be doing this again soon.

I'm an actor who evolves once the shoot starts.

It's only over time that you get to exploring or adding nuances to the character. Like my part in 'Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara' - I am so not the person who wears high heels and totters about like a poodle.

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

I feel that, for each show I've been doing, there's a character that dominates. Then in the next show it plays a smaller part, and then in the next it has a sort of cameo piece. So they all have their moment.

I don't really get a buzz from playing characters that are similar to me 'cause that's not acting to me.

As anyone who's done any acting will tell you, if you haven't got a malicious evil streak, it's such a joy to let one out.

As an actor, I love playing something kind of outside of who I am as a real person.

I was inspired to become an actor from theater I'd seen, so I assumed I'd do a lot of theater. But when I left Guidhall, the first thing I did was a short film - I played the main character. And I loved it. I love working on camera. I love the smallness of it and the detail and the routine of it.

Young actors ask me for advice. They say, 'Should I get an agent?' I tell them, 'Don't worry about that. Act, act, act. Get into that production of 'The Three Sisters' in a church basement. Consider every audition a chance to act, even if it's just for three minutes. Just do it whenever and wherever you can.'

The most fundamental important thing for me as an actor is maintaining a sense of play. It's so important.

As an actor, you go in your own personal life and pull from your personal life, so that's what I do.

It's a great experience as an actor to just work loads all the time. Constantly getting through material.

In Malayalam, I can improvise, and acting is easy because I think in Malayalam, but for 'Velaikkaran,' I had to prepare for a role, which is a first for me.

I think acting is boring because you have to sit for a long time. And being a director I am used to running around and being busy on sets. I lack the actor software.

For me, it was much more important to continue to learn my craft as an actor and get a bit of flesh on the bones.

The work of acting, in and of itself, is something that is infinitely enjoyable.

It's always a pleasant experience while acting because I like to surprise myself and the audience with what I do.

In feature films, I used to be the hero's friend, a regular character. In short films, I played the hero; I got roles where I could work on my character and performance. They made me aware of myself as an actor.

I'm not a trained actor. I have neither read acting books nor gone to acting school. But I have certain fundamentals on how I approach a character; the basic skeleton of my preparation is based on observations from real life.