Richa Pallod Quotes

Some actors get by with behaving, not acting. You've got to sell the effect. I act more in the 'Nightmare' movies because it's not like me. I'm acting, not reacting.

Sometimes I think of movie acting as advanced pretend.

Character acting is a much braver pursuit than a guy who runs around and intermittently clenches his jaw muscles.

I think I'm sort of method in a sense, and I enjoy, you know, trying to find that reality in fake emotion.

When I see an emotion being enacted by a great actor, I always feel I can never do that.

It was very difficult acting. I feel it is a very tough job to portray someone else's character and to behave like that on screen.

For the actors, the talent is to serve the demands that I ask of them, to do it with naturality and truth, and to be honest when we were terrified.

As actors, you do have to be aware of your audience. You can't act in a vacuum, even if that audience isn't exactly present with you.

People often argue about this. Obviously one of the skills in performance is acting, and you can't expect every Romeo to really be in love with their Juliet!

On the whole, actors shout when they don't know what they're doing, trying to make an impact.

I think actors are brave souls that have to use parts of themselves that I'm just not comfortable doing anymore.

You take what you know, and you put it through your own prism. If I play characters that break down or cry, it's Gary Oldman crying; it's not the character crying.

I act according to the requirements of the character, and if I try to play the role, then I play it truthfully. In my daily life, I'm a laid-back, peaceful guy. I'm just doing my job to act.

I can't act, and so I have to live that particular character in my real life and then exhibit it on screen.

Now that was one thing, but from an actor's point of view, this poor young man, crying from the moment I opened the door to the moment he left. Now if an actor did that they would say he's over-acting.

In acting, you draw so much on your private life.

The one thing for an actor that is complete death is if you're bored, because that boredom will show in your work.

I think good acting is always character acting.

You have to find it in the moment, and that's one of the challenges of being an actor - especially a film actor - is that you have to maintain these heightened emotions for long periods of time. There's no trick to it. You just have to do.

Sometimes fake laughing is hard once you've done a scene 18 times. I don't want to brag, but I have a reputation for being very, very good at that. It's funny finding what's challenging about acting as you go.

I don't have an 'actor cry.'

One of the reasons why good actors are good is that they have poor impulse control. If you put them in front of a camera, they respond as if it was actually happening, in real time, rather than doing it after several takes.

I think one of the things that people take for granted when they watch a film is the actors have to exhibit an extraordinary amount of force to block out the stuff that isn't a part of their reality. And when the audience sees it, they're seeing everything the actor isn't seeing.

Good acting is confused with good dialogue delivery. Acting is about all about performance, and the way we interpret and understand the character that we bring alive onscreen.

I am trained in theatre, and so I take time to study and get into the skin of a character.