Sonu Sood Quotes

I open myself up every time I walk on screen and give you everything that I am. There are parts of me that are in every movie that I've done. That to me is what my job is.

My job is to focus on bringing characters to life in an honest and personal way.

I really think that as good of a job as you do as a writer, you're absolutely indebted to the actors that have to deliver that material.

In terms of the character itself, I can't really say that I find anything really difficult. I enjoy the character so much I don't perceive difficulty in trying to be him. It's just a matter of how do we get there.

You can't write about stuff you don't know about. You have to live it. You have to roll up your sleeves and get your hands dirty. Live life to be a good songwriter.

The theater was my first training ground. It taught me discipline, dedication and appreciation of hard work.

I try to ground most of my characters in reality somehow. That's kind of what I bring to the table.

When I'm working, I don't wake up and say, 'OK, time to go be intense.' I just look at whatever scenes we're working on that day and break them down - just real intense everyday work.

I don't steer towards anything. I steer towards character and truth. If it's funny then so be it. If it's dramatic, so be it. I just steer towards characters.

In order to represent life on the stage, we must rub elbows with life, live ourselves.

Hopefully, any character I play has an anchor in reality.

Olivier said that drama is an affair of the heart, or it's nothing, and he was right.

It's challenging to take on something else that is not you and make it very real and have others be able to associate with it. It's wonderful to provoke thought.

When actors are the real deal, all that star whatever goes right out the window and you're there to tell a story.

I really believe in the characters I play.

As an actor, it's my job to make everything interesting and exciting and new. If I'm not doing my job well, then I'm stealing.

Everything we do on 'Luck' is absolutely no different than if we'd had been doing it in a feature film. There's no short cuts. The specificity of what every single line might mean. Everything Dustin Hoffman does. Kevin Dunn is as authentic in the last scene of the last episode as he is in the first scene of the first episode.

Keats himself spoke about how Shakespeare was capable of erasing himself completely from the characters he had created. As an actor, that is what I'm trying to do.

I knew it would be hard work, but that's the reason you're an actor. If you're a bricklayer, you don't want to just show up at someone's house and put a little row of bricks around their garden. You want to build a building.

I get very involved in my roles. I want people to think it's all really happening. If I'm in it, I'm in it.

My approach is always the same. I try to be as honest as possible. Find the real honesty and humanity in the character because even a fictional character is supposed to feel real. And my job is to find that reality and bring it to the screen.

As an actor, you buy into someone else's dream and make it your own, and you don't lose sight of that.

As filmmakers and as actors, you have to find truth.

Acting is equal parts talent and perseverance.

I love the performance of a craft, whether it is modest or mean-spirited, yet I walk away when discussions of it begin - as if one should ask a gravedigger what brand of shovel he uses or whether he prefers to work at noon or in moonlight. I am interested only in the care taken, and those secret rehearsals behind it. Even if I do not understand fully what is taking place.