Ishaan Khatter Quotes

I'm not an actress who can create a character. I play me.

Each character I play has different dimensions. I'm not interested in words that pull them together.

I don't see a difference between the idea of what an actor does and what someone supposes a character actor is, really.

I used to think the actor's job was immersing himself completely in another personality.

Well, as an actor, at least from my standpoint, I can't not like who I'm playing.

As an actor, you can do what you want with your role. That's why they hire you; to take the role and make it real.

The worst acting is about imitation.

I never really thought about what characters I play. I always just wanted different characters.

I don't act in the way other actresses act, in terms of building or creating a character. I don't transform myself into the role, I invest myself in the role.

I definitely think it exercises an interesting muscle, auditioning for bad parts and trying to figure out how to make it real. I don't know what I'm talking about now.

You can't generalise, of course, but there is a school of American acting where there is a kind of pride in the number of takes you can do.

Any good actor is a character actor.

In my experience, it's usually up to the actor how a character is portrayed.

I think I would not be described as a character actor in that I don't take on characteristics which are very alien to me.

I've always been a material-based actor. That's what I've done, the choices I've made - like a heat-seeking missile.

It sounds maybe a little old fashioned, but the parts I want to play and I do play, you don't want to inject too much of your own personality. What you sacrifice then is a slight mystery.

I will never forget the pleasure and instruction I derived from working with a true master of his art, such as Edward G. Robinson was - and is. Surely his record for versatility, studied characterization - ranging from modern colloquial to the classics - and artistic integrity is unsurpassed.

There is a little bit of me infused in every character I play.

I think good acting is always character acting.

Once, Naseeruddin Shah told me that the wafer shop was the best acting school that I could have attended. And I completely agree. I observed every customer very minutely and picked up some quirk or the other. Later, I used those experiences while playing different characters.

An actor is an actor is an actor. The less personality an actor has off stage the better. A blank canvas on which to draw the characters he plays.

I've always considered myself a character actor. That's the way I was trained, really.

Every actor turns everything round to their character.

The idea of an actor is that you should be able to play anything.

I realise that certain actors project their own image onto the screen - those who are the same on as they are off. But I've never had the necessary statistics to be able to do that sort of thing, and so, anyway, I always wanted to be a character actor.