Bhumi Pednekar Quotes

Like any other actor, I draw on life experience.

When I see an emotion being enacted by a great actor, I always feel I can never do that.

An actor matures with experiences, and the more the emotions he/she has been through, the greater the intensity of performances.

As long as you have the acting chops and the desire to get inside a character, you can play anything.

I went through this realization that acting, at its heart, is the ability to manipulate your own emotions.

Well my taste wasn't very good when I first started out. But later, when I began to appreciate the art of acting, I would say the actress I most admire is Vanessa Redgrave.

The better the actor I am acting with, the better my performance gets.

I was blown away watching Michael Keaton act because he was such a maniacal, evil person on set. He takes on a totally different life, and it was so amazing to watch him work.

Sometimes directors come to me when I have to play some horrible thing, scary or hysterical or crying; they ask, 'Did you study somewhere to be an actress?' No, this is life. That's why I think I don't want to say you need a really bad experience to be a good artist, but bad experiences in your life say something.

Emotional power is maybe the most valuable thing that an actor can have.

Good acting comes from finding the essence of a character.

Good actors, you always know what they're thinking. That's why they're good actors.

It's true I have a hard time with the notion of creating a character. And I feel it's a limit. I'm always really impressed by actors who are able to construct a character, like Johnny Depp.

An actor must interpret life, and in order to do so must be willing to accept all the experiences life has to offer. In fact, he must seek out more of life than life puts at his feet.

Obviously an actor draws on his own experience.

In acting, you draw so much on your private life.

Doing Shakespeare certainly makes you a better actor.

The one thing for an actor that is complete death is if you're bored, because that boredom will show in your work.

It's not enough to hit the notes. There is no point in the singers just standing there and sounding wonderful if they're not connecting with the characters they are portraying.

To be a good actor you have to feel life and observe life.

I think good acting is always character acting.

I think that you get something for your acting from almost anything you do.

Anything negative that happens to you in life can be turned into a positive as far as acting is concerned. You can draw on your experiences - it's far better than any research.

There are actors who are really fantastically talented at being natural on screen and appearing to be themselves, but I like the challenge of becoming somebody else.

You can't perish because of your own feelings; you have to embrace those things as an actor because it's part of your palette.