Parvathy Quotes

Let me put it this way. There is more to acting than just acting like somebody. I like to act in such a way that other people get some notion of what it's like to be somebody.

I've been doing this since I was 10 years old, inhabiting different people and playing different roles.

With any role, you're extending yourself and acting out things that never happened to you.

An actor is someone who pretends to be somebody else. A movie star is somebody who pretends that somebody else is them.

I love to act because I love trying on other people's skin.

I love acting and really taking on another person, another life.

The thing about being an actor is that you're acting. It's not that big of a deal of to play someone different from yourself.

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.

Characters don't belong to anyone, not even the person who plays them.

Every time you get on a stage or in front of a camera, the whole exercise is about imagination. You're constantly depicting something that doesn't exist, and trying to find the reality of it. Once you settle on that premise, everything else is a matter of degrees.

The idea of transformation - playing something I'm not - is the bit I enjoy most about acting.

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

I was Aladdin, and then I was Captain Von Trapp from 'Sound Of Music' when I was 7 or 8, and then King Arthur. I was always the lead. I've always enjoyed being onstage, acting obnoxious, being someone that wasn't me, hiding behind a character.

What I enjoy most is that every day I get to play a new character.

What drew me to acting in the first place was disguise.

I've been acting my whole life. I have this huge imagination! I'm a dancer and my mom's a dance teacher, and I was always performing and entertaining people. I'd go to see live theatre or a movie, and I'd become the main character for a few days afterwards. I loved being somebody new for a temporary amount of time.

I'm the man who sits behind a table and tells true stories from his life. I'm also an actor. I was trained as an actor at Emerson College, and I use that training to play myself.

In acting, you have to pull from real-life situations, from people, to help develop a character.

Acting is nothing more or less than playing. The idea is to humanize life.

I like projects in which I can really act and not be me all the time.

I always think of the character as being me. But me wearing a 'coat', which may be a different way of speaking, moving or regarding other people. To me, acting is pretending, just like kids playing, only you pretend as if it were really, really real.

Acting is way of making yourself exist.

But it's fun to be something, have that, and you don't have to be real. It's like, comedians. They go on and they're doing all these jokes. I would be like that if I were more awake.

To me acting is like a jigsaw puzzle. The jigsaw puzzle is of the sky and all the pieces are blue. Out of this you have to create a human being and put it together.

To me acting originally became an extension of game playing.