Ayushmann Khurrana Quotes

You have more creative freedom with writing, in certain ways, because you can create everything that happens. But, as an actor you also have creative freedom because you don't so much focus on what has to move the story along, and only on how your character is reacting to situations.

When you have a book as material as it is, it's a lot easier to create a character because you have so many resources to draw upon when acting.

You try, as an actor, to wear a mask; you're serving a story.

It's down to the actors to show the writers the potential of the character.

I don't really write with actors in mind; I write with characters and then hope desperately that we can get good actors to play those parts.

I am a professional actor, and I don't go about moralizing about what the character does. Otherwise, seriously, why be an actor? You're not making some kind of social statement. That's not what actors do.

There is no such thing as a Bollywood hero or Hollywood hero. All you see on the screen is the lead actor's interpretation of the role that has been conceived by the writer.

If I'm doing my job as an actor, the audience knows everything I know about the character.

I feel like my responsibility as an actor is to make characters as compelling and believable as possible.

In my first film, Five Corners, I played a very scary, violent crazed character, and it exposed me to a lot of directors.

I believe that as a writer and a director, you're only providing the skeleton of a character, and you're hiring actors to fill it out.

In my experience, it's usually up to the actor how a character is portrayed.

I think being an actor makes me a better writer and vice versa. I know the kinds of roles I would kill to play, and I try to create them for others.

The beauty of performance for me is finding details with which to betray character.

As an actor, you can have your opinions, but our responsibility is telling the point of view of this one character.

Every time when I start preparing my character for a movie, I always try to make up and create my own background story for the role in order to fill it with life.

As far as the creative side, the more I do this, the more I know that it's all about the writing. We don't always celebrate that enough, but without the writing, you can't do much. You got on a film sometimes, and it's sort of half-written, and they expect and think that the actor's job is to bring the extra part and the good part. It's not.

I learned a lot from Dick Wolf. I'll always remember playing that character because it was such a good character. It was great to be able to be a character like that for television. I think the thing that I'll bring from the whole experience, the whole 10 years, is I had never been interested in the television business before.

I am a complete director's actor.

For me, a story has to have characters, and my role should be meaningful. At the end of the day, people should say that they like my performance.

I feel my job as an actor is to explore all sides of humanity.

In 'There Will Be Blood,' my character was someone who was an actor himself almost. He had a rehearsed quality about him. He was a performance artist in a way.

I love acting, and ultimately all my characters are very different, and each character I love in a different way.

If you write interesting roles, you get interesting people to play them. If you write roles that are full of nuance and contradiction and have interesting dialog, actors are drawn to that.

I just love to be able to actually build a character.