Dilshad Vadsaria Quotes

Something that I really enjoy doing is creating and being a part of very different characters and very different projects.

One of the pleasures of being an actor is quite simply taking a walk in someone else's shoes. And when I look at the roles I've played, I'm kind of amazed at all the wonderful adventures I've had and the different things I've learned.

When you do a play, you do it for a couple months, and it just gets in your bones. You can learn about somebody that way.

What made me fall in love with acting, which is my life, was watching other people perform. It made me hunger to do that.

Acting allows me to explore new worlds, to discover characters by delving into their lives, and ultimately to become someone else entirely.

You're creating a different world and the actor's job is to be able to convince the audience to enter into that world, whether it be actually something that you recognize from your own life or not.

Acted drama requires surrender of one's self, sympathetic absorption in the play as it develops.

For me, acting is like a pool you dive into. If you're lucky, you find what you need, then get out again.

Playing interesting characters makes me feel alive.

I think that's the great thing about acting: you get to play different characters and enhance one part of yourself to really bring that out and create a new person.

What I loved about playing the corpse is that obviously somebody else got to do the physical part. It appeals to the part of me that likes playing character parts and getting the chance to get away from my own physicality.

My mother took me to a lot of operas and when I was eight I got the opportunity to be in one and I realized that transformation into these make-believe situations was possible. I decided that was essentially what I wanted to do with my life.

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

It's one of the main things that I love about my job. You are never playing yourself, so I really love that I get to be someone else, play a different character and take on that persona, but I also have to take on their qualifications.

I think acting is a fun thing because you get to have so many lifetimes in one lifetime, being all these different people.

That's why I enjoy acting: getting in the mind of someone else.

Sometimes I can't get out of the character because the story is very intense.

I write my plays to create an excuse for full-tilt acting and performing.

I love doing theater so much - being in front of an audience and seeing how a character grows and develops with every performance.

With acting, I started very young, and I'd performed for a lot of children in boarding schools, late at night after the dormitory lights were out. I'd have a flashlight, and I'd be Count Dracula, or Shakespeare, or Yogi Bear, and leap from bunk to bunk. I loved the laughter; I liked the way it made people feel.

Movies are open doors, and at every door, I change character and life.

That's why I'm an actress - escaping into a world.

The idea of transformation - playing something I'm not - is the bit I enjoy most about acting.

I love telling stories. I like the challenges presented to me on a daily basis. There's nothing resting about acting.

It's horrid to be called a Shakespearean actor because that's incredibly limiting, and we love acting. We like telling stories; anything that excites us we want to be a part of. Science fiction is fun, too!