Jasmin Bhasin Quotes

With every character, I just bring something that I can make my own.

You can be more creative in acting by bringing your character to life and bringing a piece of you that wasn't there before. You could have five different actors play one role, and all five of them would be so different because each person brings a different piece of them into it.

I think every actor brings something personal to a role, right?

I always try to make each character my own.

There is no such thing as playing someone else's character. Every actor takes a character and makes it his/her own while enacting it on screen.

All performances are different. I don't think it's necessary to compare one with another. I am just me playing the role of Lear. You're bound to get a Holm approach to it, whatever that may be. I just got out there and did it. I'm very much a doer in my acting.

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.

You have to figure out what's important and keep the main points, though I will swing a little outside the box. It affords me the freedom to find out who the character is, and it's been a positive technique for me. I'm not saying everyone should change words, but if you can do it with confidence, you may nail it.

Literature is an easier way to study acting, because then you can take any kind of spin.

A lot of actors, whatever movie you're working on, you make up a back story just for your own, to work off, even if the audience doesn't have it revealed to them. I think it's important that the audience makes up their own mind.

I guess because you study the character and you do all those things. But when it comes down to it, it's still my performance, it's still my interpretation. I'm not going to, you know, be a clone - well, I was a clone of Richard Dean Anderson!

What eventually you find in comics is the only thing unique you can bring to a character who's been around for 80 years is yourself.

I just don't understand why more actors aren't artists.

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.

None of the characters I've played are really like me. That would be boring. That wouldn't be acting.

As an actor, our very palette is one of imagination. So it is a walk onto an empty space and then imagine the world beyond it is what we do.

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

As an actor, you try to put a little bit of yourself in everything you do.

Of course you can find something exciting and dynamic in any character you want to portray.

I never act my characters - I am them.

I wouldn't be the same actor if I couldn't do theater.

I've probably had my best time acting - or not acting, or trying to not act - on things like 'The Low Down' or 'Treacle Jr.' I'm happiest doing things like that. Not just because they're lead roles, but because there's more freedom in them.

I think you have to draw from any character and bring it to yourself as much as possible.

I always enjoy impersonating my characters in the first-person singular.

All my career, I've said this: Critics and producers think audiences want actors that only present the silhouette and hit the points in the silhouette. What I do is too dangerous.