Rajkummar Rao Quotes

Actors act... Their job is to become this character. And I have, in fact, seen Sam Heughan become Jamie and Caitriona Balfe become Claire right before my eyes. It was an astonishing transformation.

I love acting and really taking on another person, another life.

Sometimes I think of movie acting as advanced pretend.

That's what acting is. You're pretending to be someone else.

I think the buzz of acting is playing people different to you, and for me, that means traversing all genres.

As actors, you play people who are not yourselves!

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

I understand what it is that actors do. They embody someone that they aren't.

Acting in an epic and a non-fictional film is a big challenge for actors, as they need to research extensively about the characters they are playing before stepping into their shoes.

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.

An actor is an impersonator; he plays many different roles. If you played the same role all the time, God - that'd be a boring career. When you take on different roles and become a different person, that's called acting... It's a challenge.

As a filmmaker I find it much more rewarding to work with actors who are classically trained. It's about the work and only the work.

Creating a character and living truthfully through her is a whole different ball game. It's all part of the same person but it's a much newer medium for me.

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.

Part of the fun of acting is the research, finding out about other people.

In acting class, teachers talk about how the 'givens' of a situation help define a character.

I do not use any set methods, not even The Method. The character after all is in the lines.

Being an actor myself I realize that all actors believe they are qualified to play any role. If you showed me a script with a black woman character I would tell you that I could do it. That is what we do. We act as if we are someone else.

I had to focus and create a character in Bagger Vance, not just do my 'Will Smith' thing and get paid.

As an actor, it's more interesting to play a nerd than anything else. It's a lot more fun - you don't worry about 'what's my hair like?' in the morning or 'which is my great angle?'

Yeah, I think the common denominator - and this is probably going to sound like Acting 101 - but the common denominator is belief in the character in the moment.

I find it easier to play someone who is so far from me because you create someone - you build this person based on the story and the script, with the director.

That was the fun of acting, being a blank canvas you could transform into the character - Indian princess, 20s vamp, Mother Courage, Oxford don, 94-year-old wife.

I always enjoy impersonating my characters in the first-person singular.

Don't think for a moment that I'm really like any of the characters I've played. I'm not. That's why it's called 'acting'.