Mahira Khan Quotes

Every actor turns everything round to their character.

For the actors, the talent is to serve the demands that I ask of them, to do it with naturality and truth, and to be honest when we were terrified.

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.

Acting is all about finding the truth within whatever world you're in.

When you get to set, you don't try to play the plot; you just play the character.

Your job as an actor is to piece together whatever you've learned in your training, or whatever you have experienced in your life, to piece together a person.

With acting, you have to just tell the truth in each moment.

I am a natural actor. I try to keep it spontaneous as far as possible. That is my mantra.

Ultimately, as an actor, it comes down to committing to the text in the script.

I'm not the kind of actor who goes into exhaustive research for each role.

I'm the sort of actor who likes to talk about what we're going to do.

In 'There Will Be Blood,' my character was someone who was an actor himself almost. He had a rehearsed quality about him. He was a performance artist in a way.

I think that different actors go about their preparation differently, but when it comes to acting, I use my imagination.

I'm not the kind of actor that would know what my character had for breakfast last Tuesday.

As an actor, you try to bring as much of yourself to a part to try and create a feeling of authenticity and emotional truth and resonance.

When I shoot, I try to feel the body and the face and the weight of the actor, because the character until that moment is only in the pages of the script. And very often, I pull from the life of my actors. I'm always curious about what these characters and these actors are hiding about their lives.

You want to try and bring a character to life in an honest a way as you possibly can. It doesn't matter whether he's a doctor, an actor, a car salesman or a captain of a starship. If you can bring truth and honesty to that character, then your audience will believe you.

The best advice my dad ever gave me is that acting is believing. Acting is not acting. It isn't putting on a face and dancing around in a mask. It's believing that you are that character and playing him as if it were a normal day in the life of that character.

When you drop your guard in films, the acting process compensates. You get lazy and you start acting.

I work a lot; I love to compose, ponder, and take notes when preparing for a role. I cut all the scenes, collate the images, form the character and shape its personality, then I make meticulous notes and transcribe each scene on my notebook.

I take my time to get into the mindset of the character and say my lines. I really have to be the person that I am playing.

Creating a role is an interesting thing - each show or each situation is different.

For me, when I'm making a movie I like to stay in character throughout the day.

I'm more interested in knowing my cues than my lines. If you know what your cues are, then you know what your reaction is going to be to them. Acting is about reacting, and if I can kind of purely react, that's easier for me.

I think that I've still not been successful at playing the role of the retired actor, and I'd like to work on that.