Himesh Patel Quotes

I think actors get too comfortable. I like being uncomfortable as an actor because it keeps you alive. I don't know, I think it's important.

I like to remind myself how hard acting is. I do parts in friends' stuff.

I had never really acted before, so I really didn't know what I was doing. The casting director for 'Euphoria' set me up with an acting coach in New York, and he completely flipped my world around. The way you learn to utilize your brain and your emotions really freaked me out.

When you work as an actor, you've got to feel safe even in what appears to be the simplest things.

Sometimes I think of movie acting as advanced pretend.

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

I am a really writer-oriented actor.

Most of my training at graduate school was geared towards drama, so I feel good about it, and I can do it, but it requires a lot more work from me. I feel like with drama... well, with all acting, really, you need to honor the truth of the situation.

I can't act, and so I have to live that particular character in my real life and then exhibit it on screen.

People think memorizing lines is hard, when that's the last thing you worry about. You get that done, and then you've got to worry about the internal stuff, which is the challenging part.

I love acting. It's an interesting challenge to make something that doesn't exist appear like it's happening, and to do it in a real way.

As much as I know people love the method and what you can draw out of yourself, a lot of acting is very imaginative.

What's beautiful about the actual acting class environment is that you can use it to push through everything: push your voice, push your inhibitions, push your fears, push your confidence, push your vulnerability, push your silences.

The thing I like a lot about acting is I'll never learn enough. I'll never know it inside and out.

As an actor, you're constantly looking to be pushed.

Your job as an actor is to piece together whatever you've learned in your training, or whatever you have experienced in your life, to piece together a person.

As an actor, we have to be so vulnerable that it's really hard to involve yourself with the other aspects of filmmaking.

It was very difficult acting. I feel it is a very tough job to portray someone else's character and to behave like that on screen.

I am learning the grammar of acting on the sets. And I am happy that way.

Believe it or not, I always found intimate scenes hard to do.

I learned a tremendous amount about dialogue because I suffered as an actor.

I'm the sort of actor who likes to talk about what we're going to do.

Actors put ourselves in awkward positions all the time.

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

Part of the fun of acting is the research, finding out about other people.