Manoj Bajpayee Quotes

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

I don't believe actors who say they don't bleed into their characters. It's absolutely impossible not to.

I never act my characters - I am them.

There's a lot of romanticisation of the intuitive actor and method acting and all kinds of notions about getting inside a character and coming out from there.

Actors pull from their own experiences to bring reality to the characters. I wouldn't want to play someone who's a lot like me. There would be no turning it on or off.

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

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.

I love acting... I really do. I love crawling into another character's skin. That's something that I've always, always, always, always wanted.

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.

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

Some actors can distance themselves from the parts they play, but I fall into the category who use bits of themselves.

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.

I immerse myself right into my character whether or not I'm relating to people live as an actor on stage or whatever.

In terms of jumping into a character's skin, I try to immerse myself in the role as much as possible to bring me closer to them. All I do is what's required to achieve what I want to achieve.

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

I don't even draw on my life experiences when I'm acting. I just try and make it feel like I'm living through that person's skin.

I'm very much the type of actor that once I embody the character, I could stay in it from the beginning to the end.

It's my privilege to work with an actor like Vikram who gets into the skin of the character he is playing, so much so that after the shoot it takes him quite some time to get back to his real self.

I would absolutely love to do something with Viola Davis or Meryl Streep. I just think both of those women fall so deep into their characters that you are no longer looking at the actresses, you are looking at the characters they embraced.

I believe in method acting. Whenever I'm working on a character, I start behaving like him. I start doing these things which the character would normally do. Maybe that's the way I function as an actor, and I believe in it. And that's how I try and portray a character.

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

I think, for every actor, the most challenging part of playing a character, specially a real-life character, is to convince yourself that you are the character.

When I'm playing any of my characters, I totally go into the realm of the character. That's when I'm able to come up with the most creative stuff, and I believe that's what connects with the audience.

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