Pankaj Kapur Quotes

The role of an actor is to make every character believable.

An actor has to embody a role.

Any great character is the combination of a brilliant actor and the right writing.

Actors are the most important. Performance is what matters. Nothing matters more than the actors; they have to perform. No one else can give life to the characters. Audiences must believe the characters as real and the moments as real.

Acting in a scene is easy.

All you ever really want is a great character and great writing. As an actor, that's the juiciest sandwich you could ever ask for.

Every actor just wants good writing.

A good part's a good part. You can play serious and funny moments with a well-written role.

I just try not to look at any role as a comedic role or a dramatic role. I just try to stay in the movie I'm in.

Reading great dialogue as an actor is such a rare privilege.

I'm an actor. I'll take a lead if it's offered. The really good actors can fill a character, no matter what the role is. A good leading man is a character actor; a good character actor can be a leading man.

When you see something that is well-written, the actors can get behind it.

I would love to play Bobby in 'Company.' Also, I would love to play George in 'Sunday.'

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.

I'm an actor. I try to play a character in a really cool story, the very best I can.

The good and wonderful thing about my whole career is that I've always felt that the audience, if I do it well, will track wherever I go, whether it's President or a lawyer or bad guy or good. All I have to do is execute the material enough where they buy into it. I've had the great luxury of the audiences accepting that.

Sometimes I try to improve the language, the lines, or the delivery, but I don't ad-lib because I think that makes it really hard for everybody else involved.

I'm good with a script.

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.

You've got to internalize the character. You've got to learn the words. These are separate things, but they work together.

You have to have wonderful actors for material, particularly difficult material that requires complicated performances.

I think the hardest thing I've had to learn is that just because people might speak a certain way in real life doesn't mean it's engaging in the theater.

At the end of the day, an actor has to just play what's in front of him.

As an actor, you're always looking for, what do I get to do? It's not just what do I say, but what do I do, too.

There is such a thing as my kind of actor, and how well they pull off my dialogue is a very, very important part of it.