Hina Khan Quotes

To portray a real-life character is the toughest job for an actor because one never knows which direction to flow.

Every actor has to love and loathe the character he plays.

I like playing characters with as many emotions as possible. I'd love to play a really crazy person - someone truly out of her mind.

My thing is, I like playing guys who have a really interesting internal monologue.

It's absolutely true that it's almost impossible to play a character without having any affection for him.

The closer a part is to you, the harder it is to play. Anything else is just imitation. If I'm playing a Russian countess, I get the hat, the accent, the outrageousness. Easy. Playing a murderess? Perfect.

I get a lot of people saying to me, 'Oh, you're the actor who plays the nutters,' and I'm not. I'm the guy who plays human beings. I understand why the characters are doing what they're doing. When you play a villain, you don't play a villain: you play a human being doing what he thinks he needs to do to get what he wants.

I'm always just drawn to those roles that present one way and have many other things going on underneath. It's just more fun to play as an actor.

I just did what the script demanded from me in 'Uyir.' I felt it was indeed a challenging role for me.

I like to play non-cardboard characters. I try and bring out the many complex layers in the personality of the characters I play.

I love playing different and challenging characters on screen, and Newton is one such role. But I'm someone who doesn't think so much about what will happen next.

In 'Raabta' I've two personalities to project, and yes, there are distinct shades of grey.

It is a tough job to portray a character and make it believable on screen.

I love trying to play the not-confident guy, the guy against my normal character, because that's when real acting comes into play.

My job is to try and present the most fully-rounded character that I can, and bring a performance that people believe in.

The darker, more complex and emotional the part is, the easier it is for me. But I don't take any of that stuff home with me at the end of the day.

I like to play characters that get to do it all - to have a bit of comedy here and a bit of pathos here and a bit of suspense here, that's what's fun.

To play different characters on a TV show where you're working every day, playing multiple characters every day, it's so ridiculously intense.

Of course you can find something exciting and dynamic in any character you want to portray.

It is definitely a challenge to play Nathan, but the more different he is from myself, the more interesting the character becomes for me.

It makes it fun. When an actor plays a character, you want what that character wants. Otherwise it doesn't look authentic. So I really want to defeat Jimmy - I mean Jimmy as the character.

I like to play very raw characters, characters who have a degree of vulnerability and passion about what they're doing.

I love playing characters, so I'm always telling my agents, 'Don't worry if the character description is something you think I'm not. Let me try to be that person.'

When you are developing a character you have to bring so much of yourself to the role.

Yeah, I've always been accused of having a sense of mischief and I'm very flattered that you say you can see it in the roles I play, because I think that's important, even if I do play intense characters, like especially Christine Cagney.