Radhika Apte Quotes

To portray a real-life character is the toughest job for an actor because one never knows which direction to flow.

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

There is always pressure playing a real living person and even pressure developing a character from scratch.

When I was acting, I got trained in creating a character as a three-dimensional person. If you're doing it right you should be able to draw an audience into the character's world and make them feel their fears.

It's absolutely true that it's almost impossible to play a character without having any affection for him.

I love to act because I love trying on other people's skin.

In order to inhabit a character, you've got to embrace and empathise with them.

It would be hard to play a character you don't like - for me anyway - or can't find something in them to like.

I've never acted, but I'm an entertainer. So I kind of used what I know from being onstage. I've done a thousand and two interviews, and I've been on camera a million times, so I'm not uncomfortable on camera, but it was interesting for me to be someone else.

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

I used to think the actor's job was immersing himself completely in another personality.

For me, portraying a character is not about liking or disliking it; it's about meeting a challenge that's thrown at you.

I think that acting involves doing your job so well that you are able to help the viewer identify with the character.

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

You have to like the characters you play.

Sometimes I can't get out of the character because the story is very intense.

You can't really judge characters, because that's when it gets really hard to play them.

If you can walk into a set and feel the reality of it, then immediately you're not having to work to bring yourself into the character.

I try to play characters who are different from myself, so I feel like this character is someone who is really different. I actually think that if I did what he did in this movie, I would get a restraining order put against me.

Anytime you take on a character... you just have to find the parts of the character that you can understand.

In terms of the character itself, I can't really say that I find anything really difficult. I enjoy the character so much I don't perceive difficulty in trying to be him. It's just a matter of how do we get there.

I just love to be able to actually build a character.

You need to become a good listener. As you're working, you hear someone else's lines and how you absorb them becomes your acting.

In terms of the characters I think are really fun to play, a lot of times it's someone in my head saying 'I know that woman.'

With any role, you're extending yourself and acting out things that never happened to you.