Barun Sobti Quotes

Most actors want to sink their teeth into amazing material.

I'm hoping I can evade a type and go for roles based on what I consider plausible and what I consider good.

Ninety percent of a good performance of an actor is based on the material. If you've got the material there, you can ride it.

I walk into a scene, and I do the scene. That's my job. I don't have an objective. I have the words, and I have whoever I'm playing with.

An actor will use every piece of information at their disposal, or a good actor will.

Every actor just wants good writing.

For any role, I pretty much always go to the script, first and foremost.

As an actor, you want to do the best job possible, and you want the best scripts possible because it makes life more interesting.

It's sort of the most important thing for acting, is to listen to the person you're dealing with.

Actors look for characters. If they read a well-written character, and if they think the director's not an idiot, they're going to sign up and do some acting.

Good acting is all in the writing. If it isn't on the page, then it really won't make any difference. You cannot act on force of personality alone.

It's my job in Hollywood to find roles where I get to be a character not a bathing suit.

There's no better training than working on a soap opera because of the amount of hours, the amount of pages you do a day are unbelievable. It's the best training I had in terms of discipline.

I feel that I am a good actor.

You have to do real acting, not just do a voice.

So from an actor's perspective, you really have no idea how you're acting.

As an actor, you pay attention very closely to everything that happens to you, and you're constantly watching others as well, trying to just find out where everything comes from.

There's no one more willing to do something than an actor when it comes to perfecting a scene.

You really have to take your time; you have to know your character and your scene. The line you are about to say comes from the moment right before. It's not what's said, it's what is in between the spaces, it's what's in between the lines; that is the most important to play.

So I just play the character, I play the lines.

Obviously there are times with acting when exactly what is required is just going through the motions, and when doing nothing is the best thing. But at other times, you have to make that leap beyond the immediate environment of people putting up lights on the set.

As an actor, you know there are things you get asked to do that you do quite well, with less effort.

I've always been a material-based actor. That's what I've done, the choices I've made - like a heat-seeking missile.

Being an actor, we're so dependent on the writers.

Acting is just common sense. It isn't hard if you put yourself aside and just do what the writer wrote.