Disha Patani Quotes

I am not taking home any of the characters I play on screen.

Any time you play a character for a long period of time, regardless of how close it is to you, it infiltrates your life. It's impossible for it not to.

I'm so different to the roles I play, and perhaps that's why they are appealing to me as an actor. But I would never want to inhabit my characters' shoes in real life.

I just try not to look at any role as a comedic role or a dramatic role. I just try to stay in the movie I'm in.

In terms of the character itself, I can't really say that I find anything really difficult. I enjoy the character so much I don't perceive difficulty in trying to be him. It's just a matter of how do we get there.

I've had some marvelous parts, but I'm also asked to play characters who are kind of superficial people.

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.

I can inhabit any character in a way that is difficult to do successfully in a contemporary novel.

Every time you play a bad girl or guy in a movie, you really come from a place of pain.

You have to find out how to become the character.

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

I think I would not be described as a character actor in that I don't take on characteristics which are very alien to me.

I've portrayed so many diverse individuals on the screen that my own personality never emerged.

Over a spell of about three years, I played a series of roles that were, for me, all very different, but most of them came out within a six-month period. They all dealt with a kind of dark territory that in some cases had been mined before in movies.

I wouldn't say I'm a Method actor, but there are times where a role will require you to live in their world.

I realise that certain actors project their own image onto the screen - those who are the same on as they are off. But I've never had the necessary statistics to be able to do that sort of thing, and so, anyway, I always wanted to be a character actor.

When you go into the realm of a double role, you have to take it to another level to make it believable.

You can't identify 100% with your character.

I believe I am a character actor who likes to hide behind my characters.

In fact, I just play a glamour doll in 'Vijayendra Varma,' for the first time in my career.

I've played heavy characters in my first two films.

It has happened with me that I get a role of a cop for a film. Few directors typecast you if you do that particular role well. But, it is the actor who has to decide whether he fits in that role or not.

When I do a film, it is about how I become a character.

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.

For years there, I sort of lived the character.