Nushrat Bharucha Quotes

With a film, I do my best to understand the author's intentions and try to bring the characters to life.

Everything that I am going to do as an actress doesn't matter where it's coming from. It just has to be interesting.

As an actor, you create a character from your understanding of what you have heard and your observations. Eventually, every film is an extension of the images that I have seen or what I have heard or read somewhere.

I feel my job as an actor is to explore all sides of humanity.

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

It's your job as an actor to fill out the blanks. I love doing that. To fill in the bones.

I love doing theater so much - being in front of an audience and seeing how a character grows and develops with every performance.

Essentially, I never know what I'm going to do until I read the script, but a good story is a good story. I would like to do more modern stuff, but ultimately, it doesn't matter to me - good stories are timeless.

It's a whole other way of working when you work in films: You know exactly the arc of your character.

I find it easier to play someone who is so far from me because you create someone - you build this person based on the story and the script, with the director.

I love telling stories. I like the challenges presented to me on a daily basis. There's nothing resting about acting.

Even as an actor, I think like a storyteller. My parents raised us to look at the script.

Part of an actor's job is to draw up a back story.

In my acting, I have tried to do this - to present to audiences a living creature in whom they can recognise themselves or someone they know.

As an actor, you have to be open to doing things where you look stupid, to be experimental.

Actors are there to represent the human condition back to itself. It's never about the actor. It's about the content. That's what I strive for in my work.

I love acting. It's an interesting challenge to make something that doesn't exist appear like it's happening, and to do it in a real way.

I just read the scripts that come to me, and I see the ones which I really kind of understand and connect with, whether that's a science fiction or a period piece. It doesn't really matter as long as they're original and I have something to do with the character.

My job as an actor is to just tell the story as best I can from my character's point of view and let the audience decide.

For me, it has always been about acting and I will do films which are content-driven.

Our job, as actors, is not to tell the audience how interesting we are, but to entertain them with our films.

As an actor, I like my films to be believable.

Ultimately, cinema is an actor's medium.

I love the process of discovering a new world - that's why I'm passionate about acting. It's just discovering life, feelings, ideas and thought.

The actor depends wholly on himself. He gives his performance in what, to him, seems the most effective manner.