Boman Irani Quotes

I'm interested in playing all kinds of parts.

What I love to do requires portraying different characters, and you have to separate your life from the role.

Acting is reacting, and it's always easier to react when someone is doing a good job.

As an actor, you pay attention very closely to everything that happens to you, and you're constantly watching others as well, trying to just find out where everything comes from.

I'm hoping I can evade a type and go for roles based on what I consider plausible and what I consider good.

When you get to set, you don't try to play the plot; you just play the character.

You can play yourself and make a very good career out of it. Do the same type of role, the daring, good-looking, dashing kind of guy. I mean, there's a role for that guy in television, films, whatever. But people who are able to shape-shift and go from drama to comedy to whatever, there's an art to it. Especially in Hollywood.

I perform a role as per the requirements of the script. When it comes to work, I don't have any personal choice with regards to glam or de-glam. As an actor, I enjoy doing everything.

I'm the sort of actor who likes to talk about what we're going to do.

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.

It was really fun being in Tara's trailer, working on my lines. Tara is such an amazing actress. She's so good at what she does. I learned a lot from watching her.

I'm always looking, as an actor, for activities. I think it's far more interesting to watch what people do than what they say. You always want to watch behavior, because the dialogue as written by our illustrious leaders is great. Eminently playable.

I'm an actor. I'll take a lead if it's offered. The really good actors can fill a character, no matter what the role is. A good leading man is a character actor; a good character actor can be a leading man.

I think all great actors - and I don't classify myself as one of them, incidentally - but I think all great actors listen well and I've learned that from a lot of the very good actors with whom I've worked - to really listen to what people say.

Obviously, I play a villain in 'Downton Abbey'. As an actor, you want to get a variety of roles, so to be offered the part of Joe, it was perfect.

I want to play many different characters.

I love to play different roles. That's just the kind of actor I am.

So from an actor's perspective, you really have no idea how you're acting.

I'm still fighting really hard to get any role I get. If it's comedy, I go for the laughs. And if it's drama, I try to tell the truth, and try to play the real stakes of whatever scenario the character's in.

I've never tried to learn the art of acting. I have been in the business for years but I still can't tell what acting is or how it's done.

Good acting is consistency of performance.

I enjoy doing everything, comedy and drama. I just look for the characters really and what they offer.

I try to be a good, diligent actor.

It's just acting. I take acting seriously but up to a point.

I have a hard time watching films and not thinking how I would play any part, whether it's a man or a woman.