Sangeetha Krish Quotes

It was my first straight dramatic role, and the most adult, intelligent one I have ever played.

But for me, the challenge is how you turn a character into behavior. Once the director says 'action', you just try to live between those two worlds.

We play many emotions in our careers, emotions that in real life we would perform just once. For example, my character has died in about 10 films, so you have to keep searching for different ways to do it!

I wanted to get the opportunity to do what actresses do: play the inside of a person.

I have no qualms about doing a character who may be below the lead in the pecking order, whether it's a hero or a villain or a comedian.

Every character is challenging because, at the end of the day, you have to make something out of it.

I am not bothered about if my role in a film is small or big. Because if the character I am offered is sensible, I would do it even if it is small.

Being an actor, I have no issues with a character being negative or positive as long as the role is substantial and meaty.

The only pressure, as an actor, is to step into Eric Carter's shoes and make him as fully and as complex and as flawed and as human as I could.

I don't choose characters according to looks. I'm comfortable doing both glamorous and non-glamorous roles.

I need to react to a script, to feel strongly about it in some way. And I need it to be a complex character for sure. And also, I think a lot about what kind of audience there is for the film, what they're looking for and ways to connect with them in the playing of a character.

As an actor, you are always looking for subtext, for layers, for what's going on underneath.

Creating a character and living truthfully through her is a whole different ball game. It's all part of the same person but it's a much newer medium for me.

Being an actor myself I realize that all actors believe they are qualified to play any role. If you showed me a script with a black woman character I would tell you that I could do it. That is what we do. We act as if we are someone else.

I've had some marvelous parts, but I'm also asked to play characters who are kind of superficial people.

With 'Richard,' I was excited to make this film with such an amazing role for an actor. Play a wide range of emotion and really invest myself in the character.

I am a professional actor, and I don't go about moralizing about what the character does. Otherwise, seriously, why be an actor? You're not making some kind of social statement. That's not what actors do.

It is definitely a challenge to play Nathan, but the more different he is from myself, the more interesting the character becomes for me.

Obviously, I play a villain in 'Downton Abbey'. As an actor, you want to get a variety of roles, so to be offered the part of Joe, it was perfect.

So I regard my part in Genevieve as a real challenge.

Every time you play a bad girl or guy in a movie, you really come from a place of pain.

You have to find out how to become the character.

Most of the time, actors respond to the thing that's so far from who they are. We all want to play the serial killer and the ex-con.

In 'Law & Order,' your main job is to stay out of the way of the plot. On another show you'd receive your script and see stuff that seems challenging and feel excited that the writers thought highly enough of you to write it for you.

But I'm attracted to roles where I get to really go in and explore a character.