Bhumi Pednekar Quotes

I'm happy to try on as many characters as I can.

To be a character actor is to be open, to be a chameleon.

As an actor, you need to be versatile. You need to challenge yourself.

I love playing characters that are unrecognizable.

As an actor, I'm always up for exploring and trying new things.

I enjoy all kinds of performances and take each role differently. I keep the audiences in mind.

I was that kid who was always practicing crying or falling asleep or being angry or being excited. I was that weirdo in my room making faces.

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

There are a thousand ways to play any role.

When I have to play the same role every day, I have the flexibility to play the character in so many different ways. It's almost like playing five different roles.

That's the beauty of the acting world. You can play so many different characters who know and do so many things that you have no idea about as yourself. So I'm a big fan of workshops and classes and learning new things because you can always apply it. It's your little supply bag of creativity. Keep filling it up.

I think being a character actor is exciting in that it allows you to embody completely different things, whether it's through wild accents or a crazy bad guy or a drunken good guy.

I hope to be known as a chameleon actress, as someone who can play any part out there, and someone who can transform herself into any kind of character there is.

The actors that inspire me are the comedians and the people able to shape-shift into different roles and into different media.

I want everyone to understand that as an actor you need to be able to play different roles, be versatile even in terms of your personality.

Whatever the script demands, I do.

When I read what 'GLOW' was about, it just felt like something where I could make as many faces as I wanted, and it would totally make sense!

I've always been an actor. That's my job — I can be anything you want me to be.

When you take on different roles and become a different person, that's called acting ... It's a challenge.

It only seems jarring when you look back on the work I've done. I think if you had to map that out at the beginning and you said, "Right, sit down, this is what you're going to be doing," you'd probably freak out. But I'm someone who really enjoys not being himself. So if you consider that, then it all sort of makes sense. And I just think that's the job of an actor. I guess that's the variation that you're talking about. It's probably a byproduct of just constantly looking for something different, because that's what I feel like I'm supposed to do.

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

No, there isn't a particular type of genre that I'm drawn to. I'm more drawn to the possibility of creating different characters, or being able to go from one genre to the other and to show that I could do it, that I could be good at it.

I've been doing this since I was 10 years old, inhabiting different people and playing different roles.

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.

I've been working straight since 2003, so I might just want to take an improv or theater class. That excites me. I can't wait to do different characters - not necessarily the leading chick who gets the guy, but the weird, freaky cousin.