Sanjay Leela Bhansali Quotes

I've got to tell you, I've played real characters before and people always bring up this word 'impersonation,' and I'm never entirely sure what it means.

If you play a real character who's famous and still alive, it makes things easier if you have the luck to have a good relationship with them.

I didn't want to see George Hamilton playing me, I wanted the real thing.

My James Bond wasn't any different to my Saint or my Persuaders or anything else I've done. I've just made everything that I play look like me and sound like me.

It's amazing how you get to recreate somebody else's life on-screen. It's wonderful when you get responses like, 'You actually look like him.'

I think every role you take on, you should take on the responsibility of doing the best representation of that person or that character or that role. When it is a human being that has actually existed, and it is a person that people know of, yeah, you feel an even more amount of pressure to do a good job.

All of us have a lot of sides to ourselves, but the fun thing about being actor is you make one side predominant for the character you're playing.

I think it's fun playing a part that lots of other people have played, in a way.

There is a large element of me in every role I do.

I always figure hey, look, I'm not a rock star, I'm an actor. I'm somebody who's meant to be other people and I'm not meant to be here representing myself. I'm happier when I'm presenting myself as other characters.

It's going to be very interesting to see somebody playing me.

It's very important to be able to distinguish the actors from the characters they play.

I've spent all my life playing roles that illustrious people have played before me.

I don't think you can ever completely transform yourself on film, but if you do your job well, you can make people believe that you're the character you're trying to be.

That's, to me, the ultimate goal - to disappear inside another character and bring them so fully to life that I've convinced other human beings that it's a real person.

It's one thing to play a character that's fictitious - it's quite another to play somebody that is alive and well.

When you're playing Marilyn Monroe, you have a responsibility to look and sound like her that you don't when you're playing people who weren't ever in the public eye.

I've played several real characters, and I've always found it very difficult because you don't want to do an impersonation.

There is a very thin line dividing characterisation from impersonation. I've to make sure I don't cross over into mimicry.

It is my job to step into different characters.

Whoever portrays me on screen need not necessarily be a look alike. Any hero could play my part.

It's difficult to adopt mannerism of a real-life person and even add the nuances of your acting into it.

I can't do an accent unless I'm on the set. I forget how to do it until I'm on the set.

Every role you do is kind of a side of yourself. That's why they give you the part.

I've played outrageous characters my whole career.