Rashami Desai Quotes

Sexa as a character was fun to play. My mother couldn't even recognise me in the get-up of an older guy. In fact, it surprised me also. It's easily one of the most special characters I have ever played.

What attracted me to acting, from the start, was playing different characters. I'm not a massive fan of just playing myself on screen.

You can't really judge characters, because that's when it gets really hard to play them.

It's a great challenge to get to play a real-life character. Every actor would love to get a chance, at least once in his life, to play a real-life character.

There's nothing worse - I don't like listening to actors talk about the process, especially when - I mean, for me I've played a lot of guys, dudes, boys in a sense and this was a challenge for me just to play that official character.

Typecasting is something I have to be careful with, since I play myself on Geek & Sundry so much on my weekly show 'The Flog.' That's why I did 'Dragon Age: Redemption' last year, so I could do something a little more dramatic and hard-edged.

It is definitely a challenge to play Nathan, but the more different he is from myself, the more interesting the character becomes for me.

I think the buzz of acting is playing people different to you, and for me, that means traversing all genres.

I've never done an improvised movie as a fictitious character. I think that's the challenge.

That's what I love about acting, is playing different roles. I want to work for the character, and not make it work for me.

There is always pressure playing a real living person and even pressure developing a character from scratch.

I love playing characters, so I'm always telling my agents, 'Don't worry if the character description is something you think I'm not. Let me try to be that person.'

I love playing villains.

It's easier to play a dim character, for me, because I have a natural bent for comedy. It's not intrinsic for me to be crafty, so I would have to go outside for a source of origin. I think of myself as pretty dim.

Any good actor is a character actor.

Well, with each character that I play in my life as an actor, I try to figure out how to find the challenge.

As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.

I think being a character actor is exciting in that it allows you to embody completely different things, whether it's through wild accents or a crazy bad guy or a drunken good guy.

That's what acting is about - for me, at least - tackling different personas and characters.

It's fun for me to play people that are just kind of odd.

There are actors who are really fantastically talented at being natural on screen and appearing to be themselves, but I like the challenge of becoming somebody else.

Sometimes I'm playing somebody that I may have a problem with. Your job as an actor is not to go only play things that make you look good.

Playing characters I don't relate to are a big challenge for me.

Acting in an epic and a non-fictional film is a big challenge for actors, as they need to research extensively about the characters they are playing before stepping into their shoes.

As actors, that has been challenging for us to pick up the nuances of the living legends we are playing.