Kirti Kulhari Quotes

I am trained in theatre, and so I take time to study and get into the skin of a character.

As an actor, you try to bring as much of yourself to a part to try and create a feeling of authenticity and emotional truth and resonance.

Yeah, I think the common denominator - and this is probably going to sound like Acting 101 - but the common denominator is belief in the character in the moment.

As an actor, you are aware of how a role can seep into your real life.

When you are developing a character you have to bring so much of yourself to the role.

Most of my training at graduate school was geared towards drama, so I feel good about it, and I can do it, but it requires a lot more work from me. I feel like with drama... well, with all acting, really, you need to honor the truth of the situation.

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.'

In acting, you have to pull from real-life situations, from people, to help develop a character.

It's an actor's job to play all the human conditions - light, dark, and medium.

A lot of actors and actresses pull from past experiences.

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

As an actor, you work to the script: that's our main priority. But you have to be aware and look around for things that help you bring that little bit extra, that touch of realism that rams the point home.

You try, as an actor, to wear a mask; you're serving a story.

When you get to set, you don't try to play the plot; you just play the character.

As an actor, I always like some tension, some distance, between me and the character I'm playing.

I'd love to be one of those guys who could be like, 'Yeah, it's really exhausting,' but the truth is I'm not method. I don't take roles home.

I wanted to get the opportunity to do what actresses do: play the inside of a person.

Your job as an actor is to piece together whatever you've learned in your training, or whatever you have experienced in your life, to piece together a person.

I think I'm sort of method in a sense, and I enjoy, you know, trying to find that reality in fake emotion.

I like method actors who don't focus on the glamorous side, but on realistic acting.

My only job is to act and play the character truthfully and honestly.

As an actor, I know it is my job to shape myself for a role - any role.

I am not that big a method actor.

Actresses cannot have any inhibitions while portraying bold characters. It is something that we learn on the first page of the book on acting.

For a time, I really thought acting was just impersonating. But impersonation is just big brush strokes, really. What makes acting different is empathy.