R. Madhavan Quotes

I do think I'm a character actor.

Usually most characters I play are quite realistic.

I guess every actor has certain emotions they can access easier than others.

I didn't really look like a character actor, yet those were the roles I loved to play. If you were a character actor who didn't necessarily look like a character actor, you had to play bad guys.

Here's what I have at my advantage: I've never been a personality. I've always been a character actor.

As an actor you get categorized by other people, but it's not like I arrange myself into comedy mode or serious mode. If it's good writing you just have to play it true - if it's funny, it's funny. But obviously you don't want it to be amusing if you're playing Hedda Gabler!

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.

When I do a character, I try to base it on someone I have met or an experience I've had.

You can have good writing, but a great actor will make it feel and sound like great writing. You can have great writing, and mediocre actors will make it feel mediocre. Without the actors, you have nothing.

Fonda and Gary Cooper had the best sense of timing of all the actors I knew.

I don't fool myself. I can't see myself doing Shakespeare.

I'm not an actress who can create a character. I play me.

As an actor, when you encounter a psychopathic personality, you naturally want to make him 'bigger than life,' as the Americans say.

The most fun you can possibly have as an actor is to walk that line between what's real and what's interesting.

I am really not of the school of naturalism. I like style, and you can use more style in theater than in film roles. I love to sink my teeth into a part.

You want to try and bring a character to life in an honest a way as you possibly can. It doesn't matter whether he's a doctor, an actor, a car salesman or a captain of a starship. If you can bring truth and honesty to that character, then your audience will believe you.

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

I don't think more concentration is required for Robert De Niro to do what he does as for Jim Carrey to do what he does.

I feel that I am a good actor.

I consider myself a character actor.

I've always considered myself a character actor.

It's funny, because in drama school, my greatest strength was my range. So my early career was like that: I played all kinds of different characters.

I try to bring elements of my own personality to every character I've played, but I think I'm pretty similar to the character I'm playing now. The biggest departure would have to have been Freaks and Geeks Sara, who was this sort of subordinate and shy girl.

I've always felt that almost every part I've played has been a character part. I mean, I look at it that way. I can't help how I look or how I seem to people.

I feel like a character actress - it's where I'm comfortable.