Anushka Sharma Quotes

Even as an actor, I think like a storyteller. My parents raised us to look at the script.

Every role is challenging in its own way, but the most challenging roles are the ones that are badly written - then it's completely up to you to come up with something that is interesting to the story and myself as an actor.

I like acting when I can pick my own roles, and I do. It's fun. I like being creative, and it's a creative process.

I think you work on the roles that draw you in and the stories you want to tell.

I never look at how many songs I have or how many girls are there in a movie. If I like my character, I play it.

I don't think, as an actor, you should define what genre you want to do. Once you do that, you lose the sight to see the film and what its story is all about.

As an actor, you create a character from your understanding of what you have heard and your observations. Eventually, every film is an extension of the images that I have seen or what I have heard or read somewhere.

As a filmmaker I find it much more rewarding to work with actors who are classically trained. It's about the work and only the work.

I put a lot of time and energy and thought behind what I do and the characters that I create, and I don't want to do anything peripheral that is going to make an audience see me up there on the screen rather than who I'm playing.

It's your job as an actor to fill out the blanks. I love doing that. To fill in the bones.

It's a whole other way of working when you work in films: You know exactly the arc of your character.

There's a tremendous amount to be gained from being a performer, and being an artist, and being an actor.

My job as an actress is to make things work and come up with reasons of my own and not just fill in the blanks for anybody else, you know what I mean?

I find it easier to play someone who is so far from me because you create someone - you build this person based on the story and the script, with the director.

As for doing more dramatic work over comedy, I do whatever turns me on at the moment.

I love telling stories. I like the challenges presented to me on a daily basis. There's nothing resting about acting.

Every actor chooses their story at the beginning.

I'm sure my agents would like me to play leading roles, and I guess I should, but I'm more interested in the character parts. They're more fun, challenging and interesting.

With a film, I do my best to understand the author's intentions and try to bring the characters to life.

The great thing about being an actor is things happen to you very quickly. I like to put myself in the way of surprise.

The thing about acting is you don't want to let on how enjoyable it is or then everybody would want to become an actress. But it really is. It's a pleasure to go and exchange your identity.

I believe that acting in any medium is the same thing, it's discovering the truth in where you are.

I think you can always find interesting, complex and fascinating characters to play in different kinds of movies. It's in your hands.

Actors are there to represent the human condition back to itself. It's never about the actor. It's about the content. That's what I strive for in my work.

I love acting. It's an interesting challenge to make something that doesn't exist appear like it's happening, and to do it in a real way.