Jim Sarbh Quotes

It's fun playing two roles. The roles provide a wonderful range of emotions. Stuart is childlike and sensitive. Adam is ruthless, outrageous. He's flamboyant. He does the unexpected.

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

I like playing characters with as many emotions as possible. I'd love to play a really crazy person - someone truly out of her mind.

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.

I think playing a negative character is more difficult and challenging, since you have a lot to work on, and you have to put a lot of efforts.

Gulaal' gave me a chance to channelise my restlessness into a character that had layers of complexity.

I like to play non-cardboard characters. I try and bring out the many complex layers in the personality of the characters I play.

I like doing stuff that is sad or angry. It's a challenge, because you're doing a mix of scenes and you're making a person.

I bring my own energy to any part, and in 'Siblings', I get to bring my horrible side.

It was new to play a woman who plays with her sincerity, and who is a seductress, a manipulator and a liar! I was able to compose a character as opposed to being very natural, so it was very interesting for me. It was great to realise that I could be this kind of real woman!

The 'Rescue Me' gig was a unique opportunity to play a character - a misanthropic, angry guy - who was so contrary to how people think of me.

As an actor, I'm constantly striving to find the darkness in the lighter characters and the lightness in the darker characters.

All good actors are unpredictable, and a little crazy in a good way, because they feel more secure playing other people than themselves.

I try to play characters who are different from myself, so I feel like this character is someone who is really different. I actually think that if I did what he did in this movie, I would get a restraining order put against me.

Good guy' or 'bad guy', hero or anti hero; doesn't matter to me, what role I play, only the character have something magical.

With 'Richard,' I was excited to make this film with such an amazing role for an actor. Play a wide range of emotion and really invest myself in the character.

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

Yeah, I've always been accused of having a sense of mischief and I'm very flattered that you say you can see it in the roles I play, because I think that's important, even if I do play intense characters, like especially Christine Cagney.

In my career, there have been three things that were challenging: playing gay; playing a Jewish woman; and playing Chekhov. The scariest part was playing Chekhov!

The hardest role that I've ever tried to play was Clara Johnson in 'Light in the Piazza' at Lincoln Center. It was the least fun I've ever had, but the most beautiful experience I've ever had. I could not understand her. I could not put my feet in her shoes. I came home every night, and I was depressed.

People say that they like the characters that they believe that I am. But, I don't as much. I like the characters that I believe that I am not. Like my role on 'Law and Order.' That character unnerved people. And I loved every second of it. I want to continue growing as an actress. There are ways that I can reach quicker, or deeper, with acting.

I think the challenge for an actor is always to see which parts of you you can explore and go have fun with.

My acting teacher used to say that people reveal themselves in their opposites.

I play characters that are pretty; I play characters that are sort of intimidating and confident, but that doesn't necessarily mean that I'm that.

I like playing characters with internal problems.