Rishi Kapoor Quotes

An actress spends a lifetime observing people. You build up a mental library. No, not a library. Make that a repository.

I don't have any training as an actor, but I guess I'm an intense pretender. When you read something over and over, it gets into you a little bit. You can't help but begin to feel it, even if you're a healthy person as I think I am.

Acting really suited me because I could connect as an actor to emotion.

Let me put it this way. There is more to acting than just acting like somebody. I like to act in such a way that other people get some notion of what it's like to be somebody.

Acting - you're taking someone else's visions and someone else's inspirations, and it's up to you to portray that to everyone watching the film.

I've been doing this since I was 10 years old, inhabiting different people and playing different roles.

The point of acting is to pretend you're someone else and sell a story.

My job always is to play a person, not to judge her.

Acting is a question of absorbing other people's personalities and adding some of your own experience.

Acting is not about knowing all this stuff; it's about character.

You need to become a good listener. As you're working, you hear someone else's lines and how you absorb them becomes your acting.

With any role, you're extending yourself and acting out things that never happened to you.

The most fun you can possibly have as an actor is to walk that line between what's real and what's interesting.

Acting isn't necessarily pretending. It's storytelling. It's giving someone your perspective on something.

If you're saying the same line 10 times and making it look like you just came up with it, that's acting.

The best advice my dad ever gave me is that acting is believing. Acting is not acting. It isn't putting on a face and dancing around in a mask. It's believing that you are that character and playing him as if it were a normal day in the life of that character.

Acting is an imaginative leap, really, isn't it? And imaginations prosper in different circumstances.

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.

An actor has to embody a role.

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

I was that kid who was always practicing crying or falling asleep or being angry or being excited. I was that weirdo in my room making faces.

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.

Acting is an art form. If you are not creating something that's unusual and informative and at least has the possibility of being illuminating, then you are not into it as an art form.

Good acting is consistency of performance.

In acting, you have to pull from real-life situations, from people, to help develop a character.