Kangna Ranaut Quotes

To play these twisted, tormented characters is very draining. You have to sit in the pocket of that character for the duration of the shoot, which is normally an average of three months, and that can be taxing!

I'm affected by the characters I play, and sometimes they're hard to live with.

Being in a person's head for five months, where they're so hateful, is kind of exhausting.

I did 'Shameless' on Showtime, and I felt like I really tried to go super-method with that, and it would just make my days really hard to get in and out of character.

Acting is a psychological profession, and every character drains you emotionally, regardless of whether it is an intense art house movie or a light-hearted commercial series.

I think I understand why most actors and actresses are insane, because having to go through an emotional roller coaster as your job every day of your life would make somebody absolutely loopy.

The 'Demon King' takes out a lot out of Finn Balor the man emotionally and mentally.

It was hard not to feel violated [in Stone movie], 'cause I have to go home after walking in these shoes all day. It plays a number on your head. Some days I came home and was really upset; it was hard to see the baby [Jovovich's 2-year-old daughter].

When I play a villain, I usually get home and sleep straight through the night. It's physically and emotionally draining.

With big, emotional roles it's very easy, especially if you've grown up in the American school of acting, to exploit your own pain. You have to be careful about that, because 9 times out of 10, your pain is not appropriate to the character.

We ask actors to come to work ready to open a vein, to be emotionally thin-skinned. If someone screams, 'What about my coffee?' it's not about the coffee; it's because they're working in an emotional state. It ain't easy being an actor.

Any time you make a movie where you're living in a certain head space for an extended period of time, it's tough not to take a little piece home with you.

The condition of being an actress can be unbearable.

My biggest challenge will be to play the totally submissive woman. It takes a toll on you when you play someone who's far removed from your personality.

We manage the fear, I manage the fear, but it certainly takes its toll, the strain does.

There's stuff I don't like to rehearse, really emotional things, I don't like to rehearse. You just beat it to death.

It takes a lot out of you to do a one-hour episodic lead of a show. I don't think actors realize that when they take the job.

It’s hard to absorb the horrors of the world on a daily basis.

Most actors will tell you, when they've got emotional stuff that's hard to carry around for hours and hard to try to do justice too, it just beats your butt.

It wears on your soul when you take on the mental state of a dark character.

There's certainly harder things in the world and the country to do than being an actor, but it's a particularly emotionally humiliating thing to do, that you don't really anticipate when you choose to do it. You don't really think that it's going to be quite so soul-crushing at times.

Injuries are psychologically so hard for an athlete because you don't get to do what you love to do.

'Taramani' was a very emotionally draining film for me.

When I have to do an emotional scene, I sometimes feel drained right before doing it.

I know there are insecurities in being an actor. There are certain compromises you need to make, but they are all worth it.