Sai Pallavi Quotes

For a writer, they say write what you know. As a performer, you find it in yourself, in your heart. You relate to the character. You try to live it, try to have it be real for you.

I have a lot of real life experience that I can draw on. And I think that shows in the characters that I play because I'm always trying to find somebody - or find characters to play that I can identify with on a personal level or relate to. And I think it makes for a little bit more of an honest portrayal.

I think it's always easier to play parts that you have something concrete that you can relate to.

In my acting, I have tried to do this - to present to audiences a living creature in whom they can recognise themselves or someone they know.

The more time you spend with any character, whether it's from a comic book universe or a really naturalistic universe, the more time you spend, the more that character just becomes another aspect of yourself.

It's fun to play a character that you can identify with.

The character is close to me, except that I haven't lived through those situations, so it's not completely me.

And that's what people want to see when they go to the theater. I believe at the end of the day, they want to see themselves - parts of their lives they can recognize. And I feel if I can achieve that, it's pretty spectacular.

I'm not saying that I am all of my characters, but for me to bring a character to life, you've got to be able to find your own truth.

Hopefully, any character I play has an anchor in reality.

Obviously, any time you're closer in terms of what your knowledge is to a character, you can add something. But an actor's job is not to play only people he can identify with.

You put a lot of yourself into a character, so even though he's not you, in a sense it is you.

When you write a character and their dialogue, you can't help imagining how you would be acting if you were them. You kind of have to relate to all of them. It's the most personal thing I've ever done.

In all my characters, I try to find an iota of myself, and in Castle, I found a lot. He gets away with a lot, so that's fun.

Anytime you take on a character... you just have to find the parts of the character that you can understand.

I really do literally put myself into a character's shoes.

It's the only way I really know how to tell the story is to be able to kind of live through the characters. So when I find something that resonates with me, it's usually because it cuts to something very real inside of me; something that I've gone through or experienced.

In terms of the characters I think are really fun to play, a lot of times it's someone in my head saying 'I know that woman.'

Acting is the business of truth, so that we can see ourselves reflected back and learn.

I'd play the same character for ten years if the words and the moments that I'm playing are authentic.

Part of the success of the show is that the audience sees themselves in the characters, becomes the characters. The more they inhabit the characters, the more they see.

When you have a chance to play a character people can relate to, it's rewarding.

I always find stuff in my characters to relate to.

I don't think anyone can do any character that doesn't have at least some ounce of themselves in it. You are who you are, and your brain is drawing on things that you've experienced.

I guess I see a part of myself in everyone I write about. I tend to write about kids who are obsessed with something, and even though I have never been good with machines the way Hugo is, I did love miniature things when I was a kid.