Tahir Raj Bhasin Quotes

In real life I'm very low-key. A wallflower. One of the reasons I went into comedy and acting was that I was sick of being shy.

I'm an actor, and the thing about an actor is that if you're fortunate enough and you have the ability, is you can access multiple parts of yourself. I want to grow and see how far can I stretch.

I want to continue to play characters that are not like me at all, and transform.

The great thing about acting is that you get to be a lot of different things in one lifetime. You get to explore different personalities and characters.

The reason I feel like I act is because you get to live a million different lives in one. I don't have to go about my life, just being easy-going New Zealander Rose. Sometimes I can inhabit a feisty, vicious character. Sometimes I can inhabit a painfully shy British girl, or whatever it might be.

I want to continually play characters that speak to me, but also are different than what I've just done.

Usually I like playing other people. I like finding myself through other characters. But when you do cabaret, you are yourself. I think it's the most fun, and I tell you, if somebody had told me that, I would have done it fifteen years earlier than I did.

I don't know if I've ever played a character who's close to me. There have been some elements of myself in different roles. Sometimes, I show one side of myself and then completely conceal the other.

That's part of the beauty of being an actress: you get to explore different facets of what it is to be a human being and what it is to explore different personalities, and actually, that's one of the things I love about it.

What's wonderful about acting is that you get to play different roles. For instance, in 'Amelie,' I played a young mother. Some of the photoshoots, you're playing a role. I like to be able to look at a photo and say, 'Wow - that isn't even me.' I enjoy being able to project.

I'm an actor in that I just want to create roles and characters and play parts that people remember and like or dislike or hate.

One of the reasons I took up acting was to learn to be more human, to get in touch with human emotions.

In movies like 'Cape Fear,' I never played verbal characters. Now, as a grown-up, I relish playing people that are not like myself. That's what I enjoy about acting.

My roles have given me a lot of satisfaction. I became many individuals who were so different from me and whose experiences were so different from mine. I could experience all their emotions, their pains, their worries, their happiness.

Every once in a while, I'll have an acting role that allows me to look at something in my life and work it out.

That's one of the really cool things about being an actor. You get to explore all different parts of yourself.

In acting, while you play different roles, you begin to discover yourself and begin to notice life as you relate to the characters you represent.

Voicing the role of Minnie has deeply affected me in many ways.

With every character, you alter, you can’t be attached to your own identity.

I love acting because it's a bit of an escape. It gives you the ability to reinvent yourself. They say that acting is the shy man's revenge.

An actor is an impersonator; he plays many different roles. If you played the same role all the time, God - that'd be a boring career. When you take on different roles and become a different person, that's called acting... It's a challenge.

I think there are parts of myself in every character I play.

Acting is therapeutic.

I want things to be characters and not me. Why would I want to play me?

I suppose there are actors who are worried about their public image. But I've never had any trouble playing unpleasant characters. It is only a part. Which is why you do it -because you are interested in exploring something you never could or would be.