Nana Patekar Quotes

I can play a doctor, and I can play a thug.

All you really have when you're acting is the confidence and your ability to manage and tell a story by creating a character.

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

I'm an actor, of course, so I like to show off.

I'm not, like, Daniel Day Lewis. Yet. I will get there!

An actor has to embody a role.

What drew me to acting in the first place was disguise.

Pretending to be other people is my game and that to me is the essence of the whole business of acting.

An actor is someone who pretends to be somebody else. A movie star is somebody who pretends that somebody else is them.

You'll never see a good performance out of me, in terms of a character, when the camera isn't rolling.

When I'm onstage, I'm acting.

I tried to stay off the stage, but you know, I'm an actor; I'm an artist.

Every time you're on stage, you're acting.

I believe an actor should be shameless.

You can be, like, a totally different person on camera, and it's fun. You can take on another character, and it's awesome.

I've always been an actor. That's my job — I can be anything you want me to be.

For me, working on stage is much more exhausting than all the other mediums, but it's also much more thrilling.

Acting is all about big hair and funny props... All the great actors knew it. Olivier knew it, Brando knew it.

When you get to the point where you know the material so well and you know the character so well that you can just sort of play off of whoever your reader is - that's the best feeling at an audition.

An actor is an impersonator; he plays many different roles. If you played the same role all the time, God - that'd be a boring career. When you take on different roles and become a different person, that's called acting... It's a challenge.

Acting isn't that hard, really. I mean, I think that people make a big deal about it, but you just kind of try to say your lines naturally.

The thing about being an actor is that you're acting. It's not that big of a deal of to play someone different from yourself.

For me, acting is doing.

If you're an actor, go out and act.

I like to think that at the end of a show, you can just take your costume off and go to the pub.