Barun Sobti Quotes

There are always parts of me that come out in the characters that I play - it's the only thing I have to work with and to draw off of.

There are elements of myself in every character I do, just because you take from your real life experiences and sprinkle those into your character.

I suppose with any character that you play you always bring your personal experience to it. You always bring people that you know or that you've met and sort of - this is what I do, I mean, I don't know what anyone else does - but people that you know or that you've met that have affected you in certain ways, you bring into it.

As actors, you play people who are not yourselves!

Sometimes you can just step into the character, and you get all your feelings and emotions just from sympathizing with her and being her. But then, other times, you just have to resort back to anything that you've been through in your own life and try to play that.

You draw on whatever's relevant to the part you're playing; it makes it more personal.

I think it's always easier to play parts that you have something concrete that you can relate to.

I liken every character that I do to a relationship that you're in.

Once you're playing someone, you shouldn't be judging them in any way. That's what being an actor is - it's having empathy for people that are different from yourself. Once you've committed to that person, your responsibility is to tell that story.

I lived my 'Mom' character. I became Devaki.

When I do a character, I try to base it on someone I have met or an experience I've had.

I think there are parts of myself in every character I play.

I love acting and really taking on another person, another life.

Creating a character and living truthfully through her is a whole different ball game. It's all part of the same person but it's a much newer medium for me.

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.

What I find sometimes that is tricky is if actors are using too much of their own life in a picture, in a scene, they get locked into a particular way to play the scene, and it lacks an immediacy.

For a writer, they say write what you know. As a performer, you find it in yourself, in your heart. You relate to the character. You try to live it, try to have it be real for you.

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.

That's what acting is. You're pretending to be someone else.

I care about all the characters I play, and I get quite defensive about them.

When you drop your guard in films, the acting process compensates. You get lazy and you start acting.

That's precisely what we do as actors: try to convince the audience we are somebody else. And if you can do that, you are really doing something.

Preparation is definitely important, but it depends on the kinds of roles I do. Like, I completely identify with my character in 'Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani.' I had to be myself and I didn't have to actually prepare for it.

I still love finding the soul of the characters I play and defining who they are. This to me is my paint set, and the colors are always exciting to choose.

With films, you completely immerse yourself in a character, get into who they are, live it and then release it.