Thalaivasal Vijay Quotes

Being an actor in movies is a lot about the power of your imagination and making the circumstance real to you so the audience will feel that it's real.

I'm always amazed when any actor can decipher my direction.

I still feel I belong to the theatre. There is nothing more challenging and exciting for an actor than performing before a live audience. The stage is the real testing ground for an actor.

I am a really writer-oriented actor.

An actor is an instrument. One needs to control them.

Actors are observers of human life, of human behavior.

As an actor, it's always fun when you're able to feel like there's freedom to explore things and try out jokes and be funny.

There's something about getting onstage in a play where the actor tells the story, beginning, middle, and end, the way they want to tell it. For me, it's the most powerful place to be, and it's the most empowering place to be.

A lot of the time, when I watch actors now, I think, 'I don't believe you.'

When an actor decides to play a character, he must exude some sort of charisma and look relatable, even if he is playing the role of a really unattractive person.

I am always excited to be an actor. If I wasn't, I would be acting, and the audience wouldn't watch me.

The whole process of acting is transformation. What is your power, quality and level of transformation, define you as an actor.

I'm the sort of actor who likes to talk about what we're going to do.

Film and stage are very different; I don't necessarily prefer one over the other. Every few years, I get a big itch to go back to the theater. To learn humility, to learn bravery and to remind yourself that the pistons that drive your craft are working on full power. And to remind yourself how badly paid actors can be.

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

Sometimes I think of movie acting as advanced pretend.

I'm an actor's director. I love it when talented actors can bring characters to life.

I think of being an actor as kind of a young man's gig. It's emasculating, in a way, people messing with you and putting make-up on you and telling you when to wake up and when to go to sleep, holding your hand to cross the street. I can do it up to a certain point, and then I start to feel like a puppet.

Every once in a while I go off to do a movie or a television series and I take my art with me. I can stay in character when I paint.

Everything, I think, about acting is based on imagination.

Obviously, I play a villain in 'Downton Abbey'. As an actor, you want to get a variety of roles, so to be offered the part of Joe, it was perfect.

You know, working as an actor, I'm always working within my own imagination.

You've got to love acting and that's true for me. I love the idea of getting on stage and getting in front of a camera.

When people give you a writing assignment, they're asking what you think. That's the very opposite of being an actor. When you're an actor, no one wants to hear what you think.

Nick Lea is a great actor, and doing scenes with him was always awesome.