Sarita Choudhury Quotes

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

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

I make sure that whatever film I do, I enjoy my role.

I've done films where we don't rehearse, and I've done films where we heavily rehearse. I like rehearsals.

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.

They did cast me as an ingenue once, and the novelty was nice. But I said, 'There is nothing here to play!' I really like getting into the meat of a role.

For me, hour-long drama was always the thing I felt the most comfortable doing, and I've played so many dramatic roles in the theater.

Acting is all about finding the truth within whatever world you're in.

With movies, it's 10 or 12 or sometimes even 24 weeks, if it's a massive movie, to live within a character. But with a show that's successful, if you start in the first or second season and go until the end, you're always finding new elements of your character that are being added in because you start to live in them as human beings.

I got a role in this movie called Freeway playing this really angry, aggressive, violent young woman who believed wholeheartedly in the truth. I had such satisfaction afterward, and I thought, That's what I want to do.

I remember I did the movie 'Eulogy,' and there was a dramatic moment in it. It was pretty heavy, and I went for it. It was... I didn't feel that comfortable doing it.

Actresses cannot have any inhibitions while portraying bold characters. It is something that we learn on the first page of the book on acting.

I've had to make the transition from sweeping in for 15 minutes, doing my stuff and clearing out, to carrying a movie for the duration - in a dress.

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

Seeing The English Patient is wonderfully draining, but imagine acting in it for six months.

It's not good just to have life experience of film-making and that's all. It's hard to play a real person when you've been in jets and town cars for three years.

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

I think the buzz of acting is playing people different to you, and for me, that means traversing all genres.

I learned more doing 'Breakfast at Tiffany's' than I did during three years at drama school.

I've always been interested in character-driven pieces, and my approach to directing is through acting.

With films, you completely immerse yourself in a character, get into who they are, live it and then release it.

I'm really, really interested in the job of acting. I can really care less about being famous. I'm more about the work, and 'The Big C' was amazing, so I wanted to be a part of it.

Coming from theater, and having been to acting school, and done little, small Australian independent movies, a lot of the time, it's always about character.

When I do film, I really take on roles and I take on characters.

I want to play a variety of different characters in different genres of film.