Harshvardhan Rane Quotes

When I'm reading a script and I see the word 'lumbering' I go, 'Oh, that's probably the part they want me to read for.'

I'm hoping I can evade a type and go for roles based on what I consider plausible and what I consider good.

I guess every actor has certain emotions they can access easier than others.

To me, casting is all about finding a character within the actor off the screen as much as on the screen.

Always when I directed the play, I was always trying to cast people not who were necessarily like the characters, but people who I felt had the essential component that the character had, some kind of soul for it.

Even when you are playing someone who is real, you get their mannerisms and you get their little quirks, but, it still has to be something inside of you that connects with the role, or else you will not be any good.

For most of my career, I've played roles that were written for other actresses.

I've never had an audition like that before. They don't let you know about anything on 'Mad Men,' because it's a spoiler for everybody. I thought I was on the right track when I was cracking everybody up.

The thing about being an actor is that you're acting. It's not that big of a deal of to play someone different from yourself.

I think the most important thing for an actor is reading the script and trying to figure out if you can play that character well. The last thing on my mind is if the director made good movies previously. It's not my job to know if that director's last movie was any good - it's my job to know if I can play the role.

I always used to say, as a director, that I could make anybody good in a movie if you found the right part. It all comes down to casting.

I suppose with any character that you play you always bring your personal experience to it. You always bring people that you know or that you've met and sort of - this is what I do, I mean, I don't know what anyone else does - but people that you know or that you've met that have affected you in certain ways, you bring into it.

As an actor, you try to bring as much of yourself to a part to try and create a feeling of authenticity and emotional truth and resonance.

I'm not an actress who can create a character. I play me.

A lot of film stars are just playing themselves in different frocks.

When a casting agent sees me, he kind of knows what he's getting.

When you cast, you can't cast only visually; you have to cast emotionally, too.

I've given every maid I've portrayed soul and heart.

I feel that I am a good actor.

It's funny, because in drama school, my greatest strength was my range. So my early career was like that: I played all kinds of different characters.

I've always felt that almost every part I've played has been a character part. I mean, I look at it that way. I can't help how I look or how I seem to people.

As an actor, you pay attention very closely to everything that happens to you, and you're constantly watching others as well, trying to just find out where everything comes from.

Each character I play has different dimensions. I'm not interested in words that pull them together.

When I was cast as Gendry, I didn't have any of the physical attributes the part required. I was astounded that I got the role, to be honest.

It's an actor's job to play all the human conditions - light, dark, and medium.