Sidharth Malhotra Quotes

Well, I think any actor can probably identify with being a professional liar. You don't always look at yourself that way, but I know a lot of days I do.

Acting is technically just lying, so I guess I've been acting since I was about 7.

I actually tell lies for a living. Exactly. I mean, that's what acting is, really.

I've been doing this since I was 10 years old, inhabiting different people and playing different roles.

I lied to everybody. I lie very well, being an actress, naturally.

I'm an actor, but I am an awful liar.

Acting is like lying. The art of lying well. I'm paid to tell elaborate lies.

In theater, you're playing characters. You believe you're somebody else, and you're acting.

I love to act because I love trying on other people's skin.

I'm an actor and my job is to interpret.

To be in front of an audience and pretending, and to lie, this is the principle of acting.

People assume actors are born liars, but I'd argue the actor's job is to tell the truth. And I've realised I'm not a good liar.

We all have our secrets, and we all have our deceptions. Acting, at its best, is all about deceiving people, and this makes it all the more interesting to us.

I love portraying different characters.

I feel like I'm absolutely insane, and I don't think I could probably do anything else. I just love entertaining, and I feel like pretending to be people... and having that as a job is crazy.

I think finding a way to relate material to yourself can be useful to some people but acting for me is just being really good at make-pretend and lying. I've always been a great liar.

I've always been drawn to storytelling, and acting is the most immersive form of storytelling you can get involved with! You're actually in the story when you're acting.

I love playing different characters.

Acting is the ability to dream on cue.

I love acting and really taking on another person, another life.

The point of acting is to pretend you're someone else and sell a story.

In the theatre, we're all charlatans and liars and scavengers and fly-by-nights.

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

Sometimes I think of movie acting as advanced pretend.

Well, I do lie for a living. I'm an actor.