Tiger Shroff Quotes

I don't want to play everything. So I'll seek out roles that I'll say, 'This is edgy. This is fun. This is wicked. This suits me.'

With every character, I just bring something that I can make my own.

The interesting thing about doing a play is to find a way to make it fresh and do it as though you were doing it for the first time.

I love creating characters that people may or may have not ever seen before. But I enjoy the opportunity to try to make something new, and that's when I really come alive as an actor, so I really enjoyed working on 'Arrow.'

You'd never play Hamlet if you started worrying about who's played it before you.

I think it's always challenging to look at a script and make it your own while maintaining the sense of what the style of the show is.

It would drive me crazy if I picked roles with the goal of being a leading man. You never know what you're getting into when you sign onto a project, and more times than not, the characters that are close to the leading man are more interesting and more fun to play.

For me, I just like to be as fun as possible, but I do like to bring a lot to a character. Given the script or the show, I know my boundaries, limits, and how far I can go with it.

I think having a character piece is great. It will challenge you and be different.

I love actors, and I love projects that give them space and room, and I aim for these projects where the characters are that important.

The only thing that drives me is those different sort of roles which allow me to experiment.

Acting is different from dance. The black-and-whiteness of dancing is mostly about the technical form - like, this is how people have been doing it for millions of years. You can't let down those ballerinas who died a long time ago. My teacher will say, "This person would be ashamed!" And it's like, oh God. But with acting, it's different because people like something fresh. You can mix it up and create your own thing and it's not necessarily wrong.

I'd like to work more, but I don't just want to do kind of generic characters. I want to do interesting characters, and I'd like to be cast against type.

As a director, you try to find what is creative.

That is a big danger, losing your inspiration. When I work in film and television I try to do each take a little differently. I never want to do the same thing twice, because then you're not being spontaneous, you're just recreating something.

It's true with fashion, acting, anything: Make sure it's timeless, but at the same time, there's got to be a little hint of risk.

One of my favorite actors is Javier Bardem, he always challenges his previous roles, and basically does the unexpected.

As an actor, our very palette is one of imagination. So it is a walk onto an empty space and then imagine the world beyond it is what we do.

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

It's your job as an actor to fill out the blanks. I love doing that. To fill in the bones.

Growing up, I always wanted to always be something new. I thought if I was an actress, I would have a chance at doing it all. What's incredible about this profession is every role you play; you learn a different skill set. That really appealed to me.

If you can just actually let the character be for a bit, then you get the right sense.

When you have the cast, the sets, the lights, an opera takes on its own life. I'm not one of those directors who marches in with a set of plans.

Of course you can find something exciting and dynamic in any character you want to portray.

Characters don't belong to anyone, not even the person who plays them.