Payal Rohatgi Quotes

You have to be completely in the character, and that's so hard to do. That's why, when they call, 'Cut!,' you often feel yourself shift. Unless you're Daniel Day Lewis, who stays in character all the time, there's a switch that happens.

Maybe you're better to play a villain just straight out.

It's true I have a hard time with the notion of creating a character. And I feel it's a limit. I'm always really impressed by actors who are able to construct a character, like Johnny Depp.

I love playing villains.

Any good actor is a character actor.

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

I find it quite easy to get in and out of character. I don't know why - I guess it's my job.

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.

If Brando can do Capote and I can do Brando - well then, I can do Capote.

Playing the villain, bringing her to life, is the most fun because there really are no rules.

I don't prepare myself for any character unless it is really different.

I was blown away watching Michael Keaton act because he was such a maniacal, evil person on set. He takes on a totally different life, and it was so amazing to watch him work.

Playing a villain would be great.

I think, for every actor, the most challenging part of playing a character, specially a real-life character, is to convince yourself that you are the character.

It's a real challenge to have someone perform a character vs. imitate a character.

In acting you have to not be yourself. It's like whatever character is put on, you have to just to turn into that person.

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

Whenever I switch from one character to another, there's always a few days where I really struggle because I'm changing voices and I'm changing ways of looking at the world. I'm not just flicking a switch; it's harder process than that.

I love acting and really taking on another person, another life.

I like playing the villain.

Acting is about covering up traces of who you are and just being the character. I think it's easier to accept people in roles if you don't know a lot about them.

Sometimes I think of movie acting as advanced pretend.

I'm a character actor and I get lost in these characters, so I think it's only recently that people have begun to connect dots and go, 'Oh, that's the same person that did this, this, this, this and this!' which I take as a compliment. One time somebody called me an illusionist, and that was the nicest thing anyone has ever said.

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.

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