Kiara Advani Quotes

Readers embrace all kinds of characters as long as they are written with emotional truth.

If you can't laugh at your own characters, or shed a tear for them, or even get angry at one of them, no one else will either.

I get to play characters that kind of shock people and I enjoy doing that. I like characters that have meaning and get people in the heart. I want to be able to get people to cry or make people angry or sad.

Fiction works when it makes a reader feel something strongly.

Good fiction creates empathy. A novel takes you somewhere and asks you to look through the eyes of another person, to live another life.

I want to earn a reader's capacity to be moved.

Audiences need to engage with characters.

I don't want to say it's nice to see people cry, because of course it isn't, but there's something really emotional and lovely about seeing the impact you're having on someone's life.

For me, it's all about smaller character-driven pieces, about finding a person that I connect with and that I'm interested in bringing to life.

I connect with all of the characters in my films. That's what makes you want to make a film, that you can enter the mindset, the situation, the conflict, the contradictions.

Instead of hearing, "Oh, he's good," I'd rather hear, "Wow, you changed my feelings today, you made me feel different."

I'm often moved by the circumstances around some of my characters, but I don't think I've actually cried watching myself.

If we get caught up in a story, it's because we've started to care about the characters, and that can only happen if we've moved beneath the surface.

My work is to reach people with ideas, hopes, dreams, encouragement, insight, and revelation. That's what an actor wants to do.

I like my characters to be ones I think about long after I've finished reading the script.

You can sustain visual beauty and innovative visual ideas for a certain length of time, but in a two-hour experience, which is really what movies are, usually audiences - whether they know it or not - most want an emotional connection to character.

The people only understand what they can feel; the only orators that can affect them are those who move them.

As an actor, you always want to feel like what you're doing is making a difference to the story.

I can be so blown away by story lines.

The first thing, when I read the script, is that I need to care about what happens and feel compelled by the story and engaged by the characters. It needs to resonate with me, even if what the characters are going through is not something that I have experienced in my life. I have to feel like it has some sort of meaning to me.

Comedians like to see people smile. With acting, I love giving people a feeling, an emotion. I like to give people a feeling. When they come away from my scene, I want them to think.

I usually don't find myself reacting to my characters. I just create them ... And let the audience decide whether they're empathetic or scared or compelled to cheer me on.

I am not interested in entertaining people. I think being an actor provides an opportunity to give people an experience they can connect to, reflect on, learn from, laugh at.

There is always going to be a little bit of me in each character.

I tell stories. Because I believe you can do things that joke tellers can't do, and that is, bring your audience along.