India de Beaufort Quotes

You're just playing a role, whether it's a drama or a comedy. I find it really fun to sort of play opposite Uma.

The stage is my territory, my boxing ring. That's where I'm free.

Usually most characters I play are quite realistic.

Onstage, I find absolutely nothing but exhilaration in not talking.

I know acting is not impersonating, but I'm good with impressions. I can do impressions of people I know, and people I've been, and roles that I've acted before.

Quite often in acting, you have to play a certain part; you cannot speak as much as you want to speak.

Actors tell stories and we play different characters, and not all of them are healthy.

I love playing odd roles.

I loved playing a dramatic role. There's a side of me a lot of people don't know, and when I do dramatic roles, it just all comes out.

Acting lets you be in a place where no one's judging you.

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 feel like acting is a ton of fun. It's the freest and most alive you can be.

I found it liberating to sing on camera. On stage, you have to indicate having a thought, and the word you are singing must indicate it as well, but on camera, you can have ideas, you can take in all the stimuli that the character would be taking in, there's a freedom you get, and you don't have the obligation to transmit each idea to the back of the house. It felt so much closer to reality for me.

I love the idea of playing something stupid or romantic. I'm not the smartest man in the room. I listen, and I learn, and I observe, but I'm always playing characters with intellects profoundly superior to mine. That's great fun, even though it's as much a fantasy for me as for the people watching me.

One of the things I love, more than anything, is jumping around and playing lots of different parts. I love the variety of playing different characters.

With any character, the main objective is to bring authenticity to the role.

I played a lot of character parts in school.

As an actress, the joy of being able to play the three sides of any woman, which are the glamour, the pragmatic and the one not to be messed with, is pretty glorious.

It's a lot of fun to play someone you don't normally think of yourself as.

The most fun you can possibly have as an actor is to walk that line between what's real and what's interesting.

And it was the idea that you can do a play - like a Shakespeare play, or any well-written play, Arthur Miller, whatever - and say things you could never imagine saying, never imagine thinking in your own life.

I think that's part of the fun of being an actor - you get to not be normal all of the time.

Acting isn't necessarily pretending. It's storytelling. It's giving someone your perspective on something.

In theater, you're playing characters. You believe you're somebody else, and you're acting.

Preparation is definitely important, but it depends on the kinds of roles I do. Like, I completely identify with my character in 'Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani.' I had to be myself and I didn't have to actually prepare for it.