Pilou Asbaek Quotes

I haven't gotten to do the leading man thing, so I would love to do that!

The good and wonderful thing about my whole career is that I've always felt that the audience, if I do it well, will track wherever I go, whether it's President or a lawyer or bad guy or good. All I have to do is execute the material enough where they buy into it. I've had the great luxury of the audiences accepting that.

I think the biggest compliment an actor can have is if people forget who they're watching and get lost in the character.

It is a tough job to portray a character and make it believable on screen.

In America, they often don't know where I am from. The important point is the audience should not be able see through it. It should be so natural that your close friends may even think that you are not a great actor.

It's a real challenge to have someone perform a character vs. imitate a character.

In a play, a few actors perform a few characters, and they need to perform those characters with a certain level of believability so that audiences can actually understand and see them as those characters.

In 'Mr Shrimati,' I had a long role as a woman. A cabaret number was also picturised on me. I really worked hard in that film and feel that to date, no man has matched my level when playing a woman.

I feel it's very important for an actor to believe in the character that he/she is playing and do full justice to it in order to convince others that you are the character you are portraying.

Acting is my profession; I enact all roles with sincerity.

It is my job to step into different characters.

Acting has always been instinctive to me.

I think finding a way to relate material to yourself can be useful to some people but acting for me is just being really good at make-pretend and lying. I've always been a great liar.

In normal life, we are all sweet and not vamp. So, to play a villain a lot of focus is required.

We can list a bunch of actors who have embodied characters that aren't their nationalities, and I think that's the beauty of acting.

In 'Anniyan,' the character I did had three different looks in the film, and I was able to carry it off.

When I play Raven, I have to play her at the height of my intelligence.

It helps to be more interested in other people than you are in yourself. Inhabiting other characters is what I do.

The day the audience feel they are watching Parvathy instead of the character, that would be me failing as an actor.

I never improvise. I create the character and transform into it.

For me, portraying a character is not about liking or disliking it; it's about meeting a challenge that's thrown at you.

I adore actors/actresses that have range: someone that can transform into a character that is far beyond who they truly are. Charlize Theron and Johnny Depp are amazing at this.

You hope to see an arc of growth in your ability to become a character on television.

I become an actor, a quick-change artist, as if I can trap the Prince of Truth in the act of switching a style.

I love playing confused, broken characters.