Nawazuddin Siddiqui Quotes

I think being a character actor is exciting in that it allows you to embody completely different things, whether it's through wild accents or a crazy bad guy or a drunken good guy.

As an actor, you most often play relatively average parts, so to get to play extreme versions of anything, those are the most exciting parts.

I've had some marvelous parts, but I'm also asked to play characters who are kind of superficial people.

Every actor has to love and loathe the character he plays.

You know, I have some issues. But I just love to play different characters all the time, and I try not to repeat myself too much.

I find that comedy is my specialty, but drama is slowly starting to move up in that rank. I've always liked playing a character that has depth and that I'm able to bring my own niche to.

I've portrayed so many diverse individuals on the screen that my own personality never emerged.

My main goal, when I started acting, was to show as much versatility as possible because I like playing diverse roles.

I wouldn't be able to tackle a character like Rosalee on 'Underground' without having tackled the many characters I've played before.

I love doing the nighttime soap, the emotional, psychological, hard stuff that I got to tackle on 'Hannibal.'

On television, there isn't much scope to do different roles. I try to bring some new shades to my roles, and I try to play them differently. I think I have been able to manage that pretty well.

I like to play non-cardboard characters. I try and bring out the many complex layers in the personality of the characters I play.

As an actor, it's really exciting and challenging to play a character which is much older than your actual age.

I have fun doing lighter roles, as I don't have to do anything against my emotions.

I can't imagine not playing Wynonna, because I get to play so many different things. In any given episode, I get drama and comedy and horror and all the notes of life, and very few shows or movies give you that opportunity.

I love going back and forth from drama to comedy. I love switching it around and showing people that I can do both.

I always considered myself as a character actor. I always try to be versatile to show different sides of human experience.

I usually can find a way to do a character to make it real and work. But sometimes it's a struggle sustaining that, because there's such a level of personal involvement and personal, physical, and emotional distraughtness.

I continue to be known as a guy that plays really complex, three-dimensional characters.

I want to play many different characters.

Inside of all the makeup and the character and makeup, it's you, and I think that's what the audience is really interested in... you, how you're going to cope with the situation, the obstacles, the troubles that the writer put in front of you.

I love playing characters, so I'm always telling my agents, 'Don't worry if the character description is something you think I'm not. Let me try to be that person.'

In my career, there have been three things that were challenging: playing gay; playing a Jewish woman; and playing Chekhov. The scariest part was playing Chekhov!

What I truly get excited about is not the genre of a movie or the size of a part - it's character. I like to find characters.

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