Alia Bhatt Quotes

When I act, a part of me goes into the character I am playing.

I don't believe actors who say they don't bleed into their characters. It's absolutely impossible not to.

I never act my characters - I am them.

Some actors can distance themselves from the parts they play, but I fall into the category who use bits of themselves.

I immerse myself right into my character whether or not I'm relating to people live as an actor on stage or whatever.

In terms of jumping into a character's skin, I try to immerse myself in the role as much as possible to bring me closer to them. All I do is what's required to achieve what I want to achieve.

I'm always happier and a better actor when I can really lose myself in a character and become somebody else.

I kinda lose my mind in 'Fringe,' or at least my character does. Whenever I'm acting, I tend to accidentally become unable to switch off the character. I'm a little bit of a method actor, but without really wanting to be.

It's interesting what happens when you take on a role, I think. What happens to me - without sounding too spiritual or too hippy, I guess - what happens, most of the time, you do a lot of research, and you get into the character, and at a certain moment, it's like the character takes over.

Sometimes you even start to sound like the character because you're living and breathing them every day on the set. It gets into your bones.

As actors, we have to take characters, and we have to feel for them and ultimately become them, and share that on screen so that audience feels that.

I believe in the fact that to portray a character convincingly, you need to live that character, own that character. You have to be earnest with every line that you deliver. However, it doesn't mean that you have to cut off your true self.

I don't approach my character in a set pattern. I want to get into the skin of the character. I don't love Manoj Bajpayee; I love all my characters. And that is why people today remember all my roles.

I don't think there's a certain part of a character I take with me. There's a certain part of me I leave with each character, though.

As an actor, I think it's always important to separate yourself from your characters because, when you include yourself in a character, you're taking a liberty that you don't really have unless you're life is that incredibly close to the character.

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

When you finish a film, if you believed in your character, you're empty.

A lot of male actors are method actors and they become the characters which they both were.

There's a lot of romanticisation of the intuitive actor and method acting and all kinds of notions about getting inside a character and coming out from there.

Actors pull from their own experiences to bring reality to the characters. I wouldn't want to play someone who's a lot like me. There would be no turning it on or off.

Sometimes you can just step into the character, and you get all your feelings and emotions just from sympathizing with her and being her. But then, other times, you just have to resort back to anything that you've been through in your own life and try to play that.

When you have to get into the character each morning, give it your voice, your face, it was torture.

It's absolutely true that it's almost impossible to play a character without having any affection for him.

How do I act so well? What I do is I pretend to be the person I'm portraying in the film or play.