Manoj Bajpayee Quotes

I never judge the characters I'm asked to play, and I don't need to feel that they are a part of me.

I think that acting involves doing your job so well that you are able to help the viewer identify with the character.

My job always is to play a person, not to judge her.

I always try to make each character my own.

You can't judge a character that you're playing, because then you're fighting against doing what the character's doing.

That's, to me, the ultimate goal - to disappear inside another character and bring them so fully to life that I've convinced other human beings that it's a real person.

There's a lot to be said for getting really comfortable in a character.

Playing characters I don't relate to are a big challenge for me.

I used to think the actor's job was immersing himself completely in another personality.

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

You have to like the characters you play.

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.

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

For any actor, it's a great privilege to play a character that is very distant from yourself.

I always try to find something I admire about every character I play.

I always enjoy impersonating my characters in the first-person singular.

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.

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

So you can't judge the character you're playing ever.

But today I felt different, today I forgot how long it takes to get into the skin of a character and I remembered it, because today I actually got into that skin and it felt so different.

I don't have any training as an actor, but I guess I'm an intense pretender. When you read something over and over, it gets into you a little bit. You can't help but begin to feel it, even if you're a healthy person as I think I am.

I take my time to get into the mindset of the character and say my lines. I really have to be the person that I am playing.

You play your character and it isn't right to step out of it. You have to stay in that character.

What I love to do requires portraying different characters, and you have to separate your life from the role.

You don't really ever think you're that crazy person you're playing.