Navya Nair Quotes

I guess I'm just good at playing repressed individuals. I'm lucky because those are often the roles that catch people's eyes.

Maybe you're better to play a villain just straight out.

I will not accept a role just because a big hero stars in it. I am not here to merely dance, run around trees, and be a glam doll.

When you watch films, there are so many different types of characters you want to portray.

I play characters that allow me to do lot more than just be a glamorous heroine.

I do try to look at scripts and keep an eye out for challenging roles.

It's better to play negative lead roles than portray just any other character on the show.

I am open to any good script and the character I can do justice to.

I don't choose characters according to looks. I'm comfortable doing both glamorous and non-glamorous roles.

I don't want to put on any gimmicky layers just to give the character more definition. I just want to play good characters. It doesn't matter to me if it's 'open ethnicity' or 'specifically Asian.'

Acting is the ability to dream on cue.

An actor is an impersonator; he plays many different roles. If you played the same role all the time, God - that'd be a boring career. When you take on different roles and become a different person, that's called acting... It's a challenge.

There's lots of incredible roles out there that I'd love to tackle, but there's a select group of actors I find myself gravitating towards, like Philip Seymour Hoffman or Sean Penn or Daniel Day-Lewis - real transformational actors.

I think acting is a fun thing because you get to have so many lifetimes in one lifetime, being all these different people.

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

Our demands are simple, normal, and therefore they are difficult to satisfy. All we ask is that an actor on the stage live in accordance with natural laws.

Creating a character and living truthfully through her is a whole different ball game. It's all part of the same person but it's a much newer medium for me.

As an actor, my main focus is finding good writing and attacking a good role.

I think if you do something effectively whether you're the lover or the comic or the action guy or the villain like I play; movies are very expensive to make. Chances are you'll get asked to play that part again.

Some actors get by with behaving, not acting. You've got to sell the effect. I act more in the 'Nightmare' movies because it's not like me. I'm acting, not reacting.

'Funny People' is my favorite performance of myself to date. Even though it's a comedy and there are serious moments, I really felt like Leo felt like a real person. It didn't feel like I was playing myself. Whether it's a comedy or drama, I just try to make it as realistic as possible.

Sometimes I think of movie acting as advanced pretend.

I'm a character actor and I get lost in these characters, so I think it's only recently that people have begun to connect dots and go, 'Oh, that's the same person that did this, this, this, this and this!' which I take as a compliment. One time somebody called me an illusionist, and that was the nicest thing anyone has ever said.

Usually most characters I play are quite realistic.

I like to play unpredictable characters, and I like to be unpredictable in what movie I'll do.