Fawad Khan Quotes

It was always theater for me. But part of that came out of the fact that I was always acting out as a kid. I was the kid who didn't play well with others.

I enjoy playing different kind of people.

I just love to act. I like to get away, totally play a different character, someone you can get really involved in knowing. I've gotten really involved in some characters and written down little summaries of where they live and what their families are like.

Sometimes I think of movie acting as advanced pretend.

It's like kids playing house: 'You play the father, I'll play the mother.' You know, you dress up, you play, they pay, you go home. It's a game - acting's a game.

Being an actor is an extension of telling a story and I loved story telling as a child.

I have these surreal moments where I'm like, 'I'm pregnant with Jake Gyllenhaal's baby' and 'I'm telling Robert Pattinson that he smells of sex.' But you're acting, so the focus is on the work.

When I was in school, I was always writing scripts and dressing up as characters. I'd constantly be that guy who'd get up on stage. I used to write imaginary TV shows, like soap operas, for fun.

It's so fun to just slip on different hats and play different characters, even if it's just for a minute.

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.

For me, acting is play. It's just play and it's playing make believe really, really well.

I love doing heightened reality stuff, and having fun with the characters I play, especially in a kind of darker way, which I don't get to do in 'Primeval' at all.

Acting is nothing more or less than playing. The idea is to humanize life.

I like projects in which I can really act and not be me all the time.

As much as I know people love the method and what you can draw out of yourself, a lot of acting is very imaginative.

If you have a very good concept of your character, you can snap into it.

I'm a performer. I've just been one since I was a little girl. I used to pretend all the time.

To a certain extent I suppose all actors are big kids.

We're very sure to stay in character, to experience the Sharknado as though it was real. That's what acting is.

I'm quite simple, really. I like to play and inhabit my character. I really like to inhabit the situation. It's the situation that intrigues me.

Acting is an expression of imagination. No firsthand knowledge is necessary.

Trying to be a good actor has to be involved with placing yourself imaginatively in different people's circumstances.

Acting is a really strange thing to do; it's very strange.

Sometimes you think about the job that we, as actors, do. I take it very seriously, and I care very much about it, but I'm paid to make believe. When you're a kid, you go to your friend's house, and it's, 'Let's pretend we're both cowboys!' Without belittling it, that's basically what I do - I tell stories.

Acting just seems to be a way of getting into a different place. It seems like a really creative place to be.