Sushant Singh Rajput Quotes

The worst acting is about imitation.

I've got to tell you, I've played real characters before and people always bring up this word 'impersonation,' and I'm never entirely sure what it means.

I've spent all my life playing roles that illustrious people have played before me.

Of course you can find something exciting and dynamic in any character you want to portray.

It's always the case, whenever you're doing someone real, how much you want to do an impression or a characterisation. If I was doing Churchill, or Gandhi - people know exactly how they talked, walked.

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.

In day-to-day life, our brain sends lots of signals. In acting, there are no signals. You have to believe in what you are trying to portray.

I always try to make each character my own.

I have always like doing accents; I find it much easier to get into character for me.

It's going to be very interesting to see somebody playing me.

I don't think you can ever completely transform yourself on film, but if you do your job well, you can make people believe that you're the character you're trying to be.

You can't follow another actor's performance. You can't be Robert DeNiro, because you're not Robert DeNiro, and, you know, he is.

It's one thing to play a character that's fictitious - it's quite another to play somebody that is alive and well.

My James Bond wasn't any different to my Saint or my Persuaders or anything else I've done. I've just made everything that I play look like me and sound like me.

When you're playing Marilyn Monroe, you have a responsibility to look and sound like her that you don't when you're playing people who weren't ever in the public eye.

I think I'm sort of method in a sense, and I enjoy, you know, trying to find that reality in fake emotion.

Adopting mannerisms is called mimicry. That is not a good way to do things. You don't start to imitate somebody, the way he walks and talks, that is a very irrelevant element of acting.

When you watch me on the screen, you should not be able to recognise me. If people say, you're a natural and an organic actor, that's an insult. If you're being yourself all the time on screen, that means you don't know how to act.

It is my job to step into different characters.

It's difficult to adopt mannerism of a real-life person and even add the nuances of your acting into it.

When I play a part, I never think about likability.

Acting is not a state of being ... but a state of appearing to be.

In every character you play, as much as you hate to admit it as an actor, but there's an element of you that you bring to it.

If you play a real character who's famous and still alive, it makes things easier if you have the luck to have a good relationship with them.

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