Bhumi Pednekar Quotes

All you ever really want is a great character and great writing. As an actor, that's the juiciest sandwich you could ever ask for.

I just try not to look at any role as a comedic role or a dramatic role. I just try to stay in the movie I'm in.

When you see something that is well-written, the actors can get behind it.

I like character-driven stuff. It doesn't matter, the size of the part.

What I truly get excited about is not the genre of a movie or the size of a part - it's character. I like to find characters.

I don't see a difference between playing a performance capture role and a live action role, they're just characters to me at the end of the day and I'm an actor who wants to explore those characters in fantastically written scripts. The only caveat is a good story is a good character.

Without great writing, you've got a bunch of actors bumping into each other.

I'm just first of all looking for a part that's well written and speaks to me.

For me, it's always the script. The script which gives me the chance to do something new; that has been my prime objective ever since I started acting. There's nothing else that excites me more than that.

I love telling the stories that we tell. I love playing the characters that we play.

Every actor just wants good writing.

The roles I'm interested in or have been interested in, you know, it's going to get down to conflict. Drama is conflict - conflict of interests.

I have always argued, in a good novel, interesting things happen to interesting people.

In terms of the character itself, I can't really say that I find anything really difficult. I enjoy the character so much I don't perceive difficulty in trying to be him. It's just a matter of how do we get there.

I love challenging films, really. I'd prefer to do some gritty, challenging roles. That would be awesome and really fun.

I'd love to do a film. I'd love to play a character that I know the beginning, middle and end of.

I made mistakes in drama. I thought drama was when actors cried. But drama is when the audience cries.

If you know exactly what your character knows, it's a drama.

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.

Characterization is integral to the theatrical experience.

I care about all the characters I play, and I get quite defensive about them.

Actors are really working with bodies, with their minds, and with their emotions. Feelings, basically. That's what movies are about, going from one feeling to another.

If you get a script and it's really well written, that's always exciting.

I'd like to be in anything that tells a good story and has an interesting character.

It's very, very important to me, no matter who the person is, to play that person with the utmost degree of truth that I'm able to bring. But playing a character like Jack Sparrow or Willy Wonka, that requires nothing but a degree of responsibility to the intent of the story - responsibility to the film-maker to deliver the goods.