Mawra Hocane Quotes

When you watch me on the screen, you should not be able to recognise me. If people say, you're a natural and an organic actor, that's an insult. If you're being yourself all the time on screen, that means you don't know how to act.

I was blown away watching Michael Keaton act because he was such a maniacal, evil person on set. He takes on a totally different life, and it was so amazing to watch him work.

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

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.

In every character that you play... I mean, I don't think I'll ever be the type of actor or performer per se who transforms, you know? Like Claire Danes transforms into Temple Grandin - I'm not gonna do that.

If I'm doing my job as an actor, the audience knows everything I know about the character.

As an actor, I've always found that my job is not to judge the content in which I've agreed to perform in. What I try to do is just find the truth in every moment that they've written.

Any good actor is a character actor.

It's an actor's job to play all the human conditions - light, dark, and medium.

In my experience, it's usually up to the actor how a character is portrayed.

Basically, I only play one character; I just play him at different volumes.

I find it quite easy to get in and out of character. I don't know why - I guess it's my job.

When I talk about character work, I don't really feel like i do much as an actor when I look at other great actors who win big awards for doing incredible transformations.

The actor is there to translate what's on the page onto the stage or the screen. So I find it important that an actor manages to actually get out of the way, vanish as a person behind the character, never to be seen or talked about again. That's my philosophy.

There is such a thing as my kind of actor, and how well they pull off my dialogue is a very, very important part of it.

I'm not going to do the story any service if my acting isn't strong.

Every character is challenging because, at the end of the day, you have to make something out of it.

It is how you approach the role given to you, and how you relate to that character and then how you adapt and gel into that role which makes you a good actor.

I don't think I was bubbly in 'Oohalu Gusagusalade.' It was a real character.

It's down to the actors to show the writers the potential of the character.

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

I do think I'm a character actor.

Basically, you're selling a world as an actor, right? I mean it's like any sales person: if you believe in your product, you know your product, you sell it a lot better.

Even when you are playing someone who is real, you get their mannerisms and you get their little quirks, but, it still has to be something inside of you that connects with the role, or else you will not be any good.

Good acting comes from finding the essence of a character.