Mithila Palkar Quotes

I'm really a director's actor. I rely heavily on a director.

With any actor, if you know your character well enough, you'll know pretty much what he would say under any circumstance, or whatever situation might rear its head.

The best thing an actor can be is flexible, because all directors are different and all actors are different.

Good acting is confused with good dialogue delivery. Acting is about all about performance, and the way we interpret and understand the character that we bring alive onscreen.

I'm a director's actor and go by what they say.

I do not use any set methods, not even The Method. The character after all is in the lines.

Basically, the way you get into any role is just doing research on the type of character you're playing.

I've acted with all types, I've directed all types. What you want to understand, as a director, is what actors have to offer. They'll get at it however they get at it. If you can understand that, you can get your work done.

An actor puts himself in the hands of a director. And the director's first responsibility, obviously, is to tell the story, but the smallest thing that's not true reads on the screen. So if a director sees that an actor is not believable, he needs to help him become believable.

I think one of the things that people take for granted when they watch a film is the actors have to exhibit an extraordinary amount of force to block out the stuff that isn't a part of their reality. And when the audience sees it, they're seeing everything the actor isn't seeing.

Whether you're in a blockbuster or an art film, you have to be able to adapt.

I am totally a director's actor.

I think actors are very obsessed about looking different and behaving differently, but all people need is just a different film. They don't want a different you; they want a different story.

I am trained in theatre, and so I take time to study and get into the skin of a character.

One rule which applies to every role is that you have to surrender yourself to the director with an empty slate.

I have never been to an acting school, and on the sets of 'Karwaan,' Irrfan was my acting school. By observing him, I learnt to improvise in the scenes along with focusing on the smallest of the details.

I have realised I am a director's actor.

I have always been a director's actress.

As an actor, you create a character from your understanding of what you have heard and your observations. Eventually, every film is an extension of the images that I have seen or what I have heard or read somewhere.

You have more creative freedom with writing, in certain ways, because you can create everything that happens. But, as an actor you also have creative freedom because you don't so much focus on what has to move the story along, and only on how your character is reacting to situations.

In 'There Will Be Blood,' my character was someone who was an actor himself almost. He had a rehearsed quality about him. He was a performance artist in a way.

Working with a great director is like getting a master class in acting.

My first four roles were all nice guys, Raggedy Man being one of them.

I'm a technician. I don't go for the get-into-the-role stuff. I read the lines and play the scenes.

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