Diljit Dosanjh Quotes

I want to break into the acting industry. It's something I have a great deal of respect for; it's a passion of mine. It's so amazing, the differences between acting and being an athlete, but the one commonality is they both evoke emotion in the viewer. And those emotions are real. So I think that's pretty cool.

I find it easier to play someone who is so far from me because you create someone - you build this person based on the story and the script, with the director.

My approach to acting is that I am totally intuitive. I read the script and I get it. If I don't get it, I can't do it.

It's funny, because what happens to me when I read a script, when something grabs hold of me, I start getting these flashes of people or places or things or images.

I don't know acting, but I choose good stories and portray emotions according to the story.

Acting and singing are actually very similar because they're both telling a story.

Nobody should expect an actor to have these wonderful ideas and concepts about the world: they pretend to be other people for a living.

Good acting comes from finding the essence of a character.

I just love to be able to actually build a character.

'Little Fish' has reminded me why I fell in love with acting in the first place.

What I mostly do is take the script, analyse the hell out of it, see what's in there, see what kind of person I'm dealing with, and then forget I'm playing a father and just play a person who exemplifies all those things.

I love an acting challenge, and I love getting to sit down with my script and do all my drama work.

In acting process, it's very difficult to explain. It's something very intimate, very private.

With films, you completely immerse yourself in a character, get into who they are, live it and then release it.

I think actors always retain one foot in the cradle. We're switched on to our youth, to our childhood. We have to be because we're in the business of transferring emotions to other people.

If I'm doing my job as an actor, the audience knows everything I know about the character.

I love to see how a character unfolds off the page in a project. I don't always know how the character is going to turn out, even with the script being there. It's not always clear where that character is going to take me. Or where I will take them.

When I write a song, I tap into the emotion and the feeling and then I use the emotion to write the words. It's the opposite when I act. I use the words and tap into the emotion.

I try to allow the spirit of the character to live through me. That's the only way I know how to approach acting. I have to live it.

If I read a script and find it engaging and I start making choices in my mind on how to approach the work, than that's a good indication that it is something worth pursuing.

'Brooklyn's Finest,' this is the kind of movie that's why I want to be an actor, to tell real-life stories. This is where I feel my job is, to interpret life.

When I started acting, it was really the way for me to be able to communicate.

Acting is about animality. It's great to be allowed to be animal. But I feel more alive as a director. Every morning, I have to write.

Obviously an actor draws on his own experience.

Acting is invigorating. But I don't analyse it too much. It's like a dog smelling where it's going to do its toilet in the morning.