Mahira Khan Quotes

Restoration I did because I really loved e novel and I like Michael Hoffman, who directed it, but it wasn't a really challenging part for me. I'm not critical of the film: I just don't think I gave a very interesting performance.

I care about all the characters I play, and I get quite defensive about them.

I like to think I put some of myself in every character.

I guess, as an actor, you have to bring something personal to the character - you've got to identify and love one element of the character, or else you can't really inhabit and find ownership.

I don't see anything wrong with my films in 2016, except maybe 'Kadalai' and 'Parandhu Sella Vaa.' I did do a lot of different roles.

I wanted to like 'Up in the Air' - I like Jason Reitman - but Vera Farmiga left me cold.

You have to find ways to relate to the characters you get to play. Put it in terms and in a context that speaks to you.

In every character you play, as much as you hate to admit it as an actor, but there's an element of you that you bring to it. Either the character helps you discover that element of you or the other way around, where that element of you helps you discover the character.

I watch a film and the most important thing to me is what I think of the movie.

I'm an actor. The fact that I'm involved in Jigsaw, I don't approach Jigsaw any differently than I approached The Nordic in 'The Firm' or FBI Agent Stokes in 'Mississippi Burning.' It's the same deal. It's just that the effect is sometimes different. So I say, people ask me, 'How does it feel to be a horror icon?' I'm thrilled. It's great.

As an actor, I have to be fulfilled in the roles that I play; it has to be a journey for me to learn something or involve myself.

Every time I talk about 'The Shield' I kind of talk about it from three perspectives, as if I'm three people, because I'm a fan of the show. I'm in love with all the other characters and their journeys and their work. But then, as an actor, I love getting this kind of rich material and having to do it. As my character, did my journey finish?

Some actors can distance themselves from the parts they play, but I fall into the category who use bits of themselves.

I love 'Shattered Glass.' It's one of my favorite movies. I think it's just brilliant.

In 'The Prophet' I really fell in love with those characters, there was an emotional connection there that I don't think I've had in a while. It made me think it would be nice to stick with the characters for a little bit and see what happens.

I couldn't give 'Vikings' away - I mean, I love these people. And I'm not sure anyone else writing it would necessarily have the same feeling towards the characters that I do.

When I saw 'Talk to Her' for the first time, I was crying out loud because I couldn't imagine that I was doing that film.

When you're playing a character, as an actor or actress, you can't judge them for what they do. You really have to find what is in them that you have compassion for and fall in love with that character, regardless of what they do or how they behave.

I've never had any delusions about being a leading man, and it's not sour grapes to say that in the best films that I've always enjoyed, the cliched leading man type isn't a part of the picture.

You put a lot of yourself into a character, so even though he's not you, in a sense it is you.

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

You have to love the characters you play, even if no one else does.

When I look at a character, whether he's good or bad, one scene or 10 scenes, I just have to find my way in.

You always hope that people will fall in love with the characters you play, the way you do yourself.

There is a lot of myself in every character that I play.