Kartik Aaryan Quotes

I don't act in the way other actresses act, in terms of building or creating a character. I don't transform myself into the role, I invest myself in the role.

I think it is very important to be a method actor.

The way I approach acting when there's a real life character, it's sort of like a Venn diagram. What I come up with is some amalgam of the two of us.

I do enter into character on set, but I can step out of it.

As an actor, I think it's always important to separate yourself from your characters because, when you include yourself in a character, you're taking a liberty that you don't really have unless you're life is that incredibly close to the character.

A lot of American actors I work with are in character all day long. You can't talk to them. It's Method and the whole thing.

I never act my characters - I am them.

When I act, a part of me goes into the character I am playing.

A lot of male actors are method actors and they become the characters which they both were.

I don't do method acting. If I play a farmer, I'm not gonna spend 3 weeks on a chicken farm. That's a bit too much for me.

With most British actors, it's amazing. I think they start with the character on the outside and work in.

I'm a method actor.

You have to be completely in the character, and that's so hard to do. That's why, when they call, 'Cut!,' you often feel yourself shift. Unless you're Daniel Day Lewis, who stays in character all the time, there's a switch that happens.

You draw on whatever's relevant to the part you're playing; it makes it more personal.

Actors who say they can dive inside a character are either schizophrenic or lying.

I've always done method acting. I'm a method actor, and I've done that for years. I never did acting and decided to take it seriously because all the parts people want me to do were playing the pretty role. If I want to play someone pretty, I'll play myself.

I don't think I'm an actor who takes their characters home with him. But I certainly do take the preparation home.

I find that I kind of have to sink into the character.

For better or worse, I don't necessarily categorize myself as a method actor; I'm not going to make claims that I stayed in character 24/7.

I empty myself out and fill myself with the character. I would play a devil worshipper, and I would fill myself up with whatever devil worshippers believe. Then, as myself, I empty that out and become Nelsan.

I think it always helps when you build a character, and then, you actually step into that character's wardrobe, something else happens. Another angle of the character comes to life.

I'm not a Method person, so I'm not like in character all the time.

The actor's job is to put themselves in the shoes of the character they are trying to portray as truthfully as possible.

There are so many ways to approach a character. You have to figure out the similarities between you and the character, build on them, and at the same time, blur the dissimilarities. Since you do it day in and day out, it becomes a process and a part of you.

I don't believe in method acting.