Ali Fazal Quotes

I've played several real characters, and I've always found it very difficult because you don't want to do an impersonation.

I play a crazy talk-show host, but that's not me. It's like an actor playing a role.

Acting is the ability to dream on cue.

What I love to do requires portraying different characters, and you have to separate your life from the role.

I love playing other people's work. I love acting.

I tend to play more true-to-life characters in real situations.

Playing a real-life character is definitely a lot more responsibility than one that is fictionalized.

I'm an actor and I'm able to do a lot of things and play a lot of characters.

I really enjoy playing a challenging role.

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.

To play different characters on a TV show where you're working every day, playing multiple characters every day, it's so ridiculously intense.

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

You have to like the characters you play.

As an actor, you always want to keep it different, change it up, and, you know, just to keep yourself inspired and work with interesting characters.

Sometimes I think of movie acting as advanced pretend.

Having done a lot of theater, I'm used to sustaining characters over long periods of time.

It's a great challenge to get to play a real-life character. Every actor would love to get a chance, at least once in his life, to play a real-life character.

Acting is the most communicative thing I can imagine doing.

As an actor, one's role is very much to respond and react to the situation within the context of the character and his world.

In a drama, you don't make a fool of yourself.

To be in theater you have to be a kind of psychologist, for you're always trying to understand character and motives.

I want to play many different characters.

Preparation is definitely important, but it depends on the kinds of roles I do. Like, I completely identify with my character in 'Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani.' I had to be myself and I didn't have to actually prepare for it.

So I regard my part in Genevieve as a real challenge.

As an actor, it's amazing to get to create different characters.