Ishaan Khatter Quotes

I don't act in the way other actresses act, in terms of building or creating a character. I don't transform myself into the role, I invest myself in the role.

I know that my way of tackling a character is very different.

There are a lot of actors who will sit here and talk to you about characters - 'He does this, and she's a really interesting character because she does this.' I'm not like that at all. I'm not an actory actor.

I have a tendency as an actress in general to ground my characters. Even when doing outlandish characters, that's my instinct.

For better or worse, I don't necessarily categorize myself as a method actor; I'm not going to make claims that I stayed in character 24/7.

It is how you approach the role given to you, and how you relate to that character and then how you adapt and gel into that role which makes you a good actor.

You normally either get bitten by a character and decide that is the way to play it, and then that begins to inform everything you do, or you decide, 'I don't need to use much character in this - I have basically got to be me'.

I never do roles, I play people.

When you start out on a project as an actor, you know, you approach the character from the standpoint of maybe writing a list - even if it's a mental list that you make - of the adjectives that the character has or that character possesses.

I never really thought about what characters I play. I always just wanted different characters.

I feel I should never do passive characters. They don't work for me.

I don't bring my life into a character at all.

What I mostly do is take the script, analyse the hell out of it, see what's in there, see what kind of person I'm dealing with, and then forget I'm playing a father and just play a person who exemplifies all those things.

That's what I love about acting, is playing different roles. I want to work for the character, and not make it work for me.

I don't really prepare for each role the same way.

I'm not a big method actor. I'm much more superficial.

Unless it's a specific accent, or something about physicality you have to change, I am generally not such a conscious actor.

Each character I play has different dimensions. I'm not interested in words that pull them together.

In my experience, it's usually up to the actor how a character is portrayed.

The trick to acting is not to show off, it's to think the thoughts of the character.

In every film, whether it's a fictional character or not, you create an idea of the character and for me I always do a bad impersonation to start with.

I've always done method acting. I'm a method actor, and I've done that for years. I never did acting and decided to take it seriously because all the parts people want me to do were playing the pretty role. If I want to play someone pretty, I'll play myself.

Every actor turns everything round to their character.

There are some similarities, I think, with all the characters I play. I'm not a guy who sees the desire to transform with each part; I'm not a piece of clay.

I can watch movies that I've been in, and if there's an emotional scene, I remember specifically what I was using, what I was thinking about, because I am very specific in how I work.