Avan Jogia Quotes

Always take the high road. You never sacrifice your team. You sacrifice yourself for your team.

I admire Meryl Streep and Dustin Hoffman for their sheer dedication to their craft.

Meisner technique was different than anything I'd ever experienced. It's a really great way to be accountable to your craft and to yourself, but also it takes that kind of focus and dedication to learn anything.

I do my best work when I feel conviction to say something through the character I play. Always I want to have integrity and not compromise that.

I'm challenged by people like Russell Crowe and Sean Penn who come in with such incredible discipline and power.

In any character I ever play, whether she's good or bad or whatever, my most important thing is heart.

If you make that decision, that you'll always follow that rule, then your commitment to do it sinks into your heart, and when you realize the benefits of having integrity time after time, it really changes your heart, not just your head.

I get very involved in my roles. I want people to think it's all really happening. If I'm in it, I'm in it.

There is a basic idea to this fighting spirit: that there are standards worth devoting yourself to that are more important than your self-interest.

I believe that in life, you have to give things your best shot, do your best. You have to focus on what needs to be done, do the right thing, not the popular thing.

It's only when I feel that I can do justice to a character that I take up a film.

I am always physically and emotionally invested in the characters I play.

For the role of 50-year-old Sivasami in 'Asuran,' Dhanush has put in phenomenal effort. With his extreme level of dedication, he pulled off the challenging character effortlessly.

My profession is to change myself according to my role and I work hard on it.

I got taught a lot of great lessons by superhero comics as a kid about virtue and self-sacrifice and responsibility. And those were an important part of imprinting my DNA with ethical and moral values.

Leadership flows from inner character and integrity of ambition, which inspires others to lend themselves to your organization's mission.

I worked very hard playing Arjun, and I was consumed by the character.

The films you do are not just for the audience. As an actor, you are putting your heart and soul into them.

I don't do all of this as an indulgence. I do it because I'm not a good enough actor to not do it.

So far, the thing I seem to have been rewarded for in film is leaving myself behind and transforming myself into other people.

I've had to gain weight for roles and ugly myself up for roles. So yeah, I'm game. I'm game for that kind of thing. I'm certainly not too vain in that respect. If it's a great role, I'm willing to do whatever it is that it takes.

I've had to work hard all my life, and I will never, ever ask a fan or reader to pay for something I've rushed. It's not fair to them, and I will never give them anything except my absolute best.

These are people who are capable of devotion, public devotion, to justice. They meant what they said and every day that passes, they mean it more.

Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct.

Before I do a movie, I watch Meryl Streep movies over and over. It's not to mimic her. It's to remind myself to be more committed.