Karishma Tanna Quotes

Good acting comes from finding the essence of a character.

If I like the story and it's well written, and it's a character I want to play and they'll pay me, then I decide to do it.

It's always interesting researching characters and as I get older and the more that I work in this business, I do more and more of it because I realize how important it is.

You're playing a role, but you're still feeling it. You can walk away from it after 'Cut,' but if you're playing a sad or mixed-up person, it's hard to stay in that place for these longish period of times. You kind of have to check out.

Well, it was very interesting to play a character and stretch it over such a long time - 12 episodes. I had never done a TV show before, so week to week it was unclear what we would be asked to do.

I love acting, and ultimately all my characters are very different, and each character I love in a different way.

I've had to make the transition from sweeping in for 15 minutes, doing my stuff and clearing out, to carrying a movie for the duration - in a dress.

Well, I think one of the main things that you have to think about when acting in the movies is to try not to make the acting show.

I've had some marvelous parts, but I'm also asked to play characters who are kind of superficial people.

I love shooting, when the character is interesting and the script is interesting, but the research beforehand is really fun. The whole process makes me anxious and restless, and I have trouble sleeping, just trying to figure out the character.

I've done films where we don't rehearse, and I've done films where we heavily rehearse. I like rehearsals.

Every actor has to love and loathe the character he plays.

Easy was, like, spending time with Jennifer on set. Difficult stuff about character is, it was a little bit like just being the only one with no superhuman powers.

When you do a play, or even a movie, you have weeks to finesse your character. You really understand why they do what they do. In TV, you get new material weekly about your character.

When you drop your guard in films, the acting process compensates. You get lazy and you start acting.

With films, you completely immerse yourself in a character, get into who they are, live it and then release it.

When I do film, I really take on roles and I take on characters.

In films you do a scene, you play around with it and unless you're doing a lot of reshooting, which no one has the luxury to do, you deal with the problem for a day and then you move on. On some level, it never allows you to go very deep into what performing is about.

It's a lot more fun for actors to cry and rant and rave, or have a drug problem or a drinking problem.

I really like working in television and I like exploring a character over a longer period of time, and I like the consistency of television.

I just didn't want to get bored playing a character, and that's kind of the benefit of doing films; you've lived with a character for four or five months and that's it, and you walk away from that character and you feel like you told a story.

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

To try to create a character without a whole lot of information can be taxing. At the same time, it's fun to just stay on your toes and let the next bit of dialogue come in, and turn the page as you read the next script and see what they have in store for you next.

Well, I've always been a character actor, you know, and you always get your share of character actors who are bad guys. So it never surprises me. And if it's good writing, you can find your way into the part well enough.

Two things are always happening in acting. On the one hand, it's a team sport. We're all pulling together. But on the other, you have to look after your own character. Guard their interests.