Rana Daggubati Quotes

As long as you have the acting chops and the desire to get inside a character, you can play anything.

To be honest, if people thought my performance in 'The Office' was the same as my performance in 'The Hobbit,' it would tell me everything I needed to know about what they know about acting.

The better the actor I am acting with, the better my performance gets.

I never pretended to be a great actor.

It's true I have a hard time with the notion of creating a character. And I feel it's a limit. I'm always really impressed by actors who are able to construct a character, like Johnny Depp.

Any good actor is a character actor.

I want to show audiences I can act.

To me, there are things you're good at and things you're not so good at. For some reason, I'm good at darker characters. It has to do with how you look.

In terms of pure acting, my role model has always been Philip Seymour Hoffman; I really always loved what he did. I love what Mark Ruffalo does. When I was younger, I liked Cate Blanchett a lot. These are all actors who are given stories and allowed to carry the whole story.

Any decent actor knows you can't judge the character you're playing.

When I see an emotion being enacted by a great actor, I always feel I can never do that.

It's important for an actor to self-analyze.

I think I have proven that I can play any type of character.

Even great actors who transform who they are still go to a really honest place; I think that's sort of that special skill that actors have.

I've never taken an acting lesson in my life, and it's not my chosen profession, so I'm flattered when people say I can do it and give me props for doing it.

The skill of a gifted actor, their ability to interpret and develop a character and truly bring her or him to life, is one that I admire enormously.

As an actor, you can do what you want with your role. That's why they hire you; to take the role and make it real.

There's lots of incredible roles out there that I'd love to tackle, but there's a select group of actors I find myself gravitating towards, like Philip Seymour Hoffman or Sean Penn or Daniel Day-Lewis - real transformational actors.

Some people said my acting was a cross between Euell Gibbons, Rodney Allen Rippy and Sheena, Queen of the Jungle.

Actors walk around wearing these little tool-belts of acting skills. And I just don't find that interesting to watch. I never want to see someone who clearly can cry at the drop of a hat. That's so uninteresting.

I think it's incumbent on actresses to bring something else to the part which isn't in the script.

I think all actors are supposed to be character actors.

I'm not one of these actors who can make a bad script good. Some actors, a script can be terrible, and they can bring something to it and make it really special. I can't.

Everyone brings their own particular skill set to the job, and acting training can work for a lot of actors, and it can't. I've seen a lot of really good actors go into acting schools and then come out a little bit corrupted.

I feel that I have grown so much as an actor being on 'Homeland.'