Dhanush Quotes

If I'm doing my job as an actor, the audience knows everything I know about the character.

My job as a character actor is to make me fit the character, to serve the character. To present this human being who turns up in a piece of film or entertainment that's going, you know, exist as if it might exist after the film is finished and it existed before the film has started.

Vijay Sethupathi looks a film as a film. He never looks at what kind image he is going to get out of the character.

Every character is challenging because, at the end of the day, you have to make something out of it.

I think actors are very obsessed about looking different and behaving differently, but all people need is just a different film. They don't want a different you; they want a different story.

It's down to the actors to show the writers the potential of the character.

I don't really write with actors in mind; I write with characters and then hope desperately that we can get good actors to play those parts.

I guess because I pay so much attention to the physical part of the character, I don't look upon it as like Charlize Theron up there. I don't think of them as like Charlize Theron films.

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

I feel like my responsibility as an actor is to make characters as compelling and believable as possible.

I believe that as a writer and a director, you're only providing the skeleton of a character, and you're hiring actors to fill it out.

In my experience, it's usually up to the actor how a character is portrayed.

The theoretical casting part of movies is the funnest part. You really can imagine so many different versions of a story based on who's embodying it.

As an actor, you are always someone else's tool. You can have a connection with them, and you can share their point of view, but ultimately, you are helping them reflect.

The actor is there to translate what's on the page onto the stage or the screen. So I find it important that an actor manages to actually get out of the way, vanish as a person behind the character, never to be seen or talked about again. That's my philosophy.

For me, a story has to have characters, and my role should be meaningful. At the end of the day, people should say that they like my performance.

Even though the 'Shooter' character on TV is so close to the real-life me, I'm still playing with ways to creatively portray that character.

I believe how a character eventually turns out is completely attributable to an actor. Even with a meaty role, if I am enacting it as an accessory, I will look like an accessory.

None of the characters I've played are really like me. That would be boring. That wouldn't be acting.

You have more creative freedom with writing, in certain ways, because you can create everything that happens. But, as an actor you also have creative freedom because you don't so much focus on what has to move the story along, and only on how your character is reacting to situations.

If you write interesting roles, you get interesting people to play them. If you write roles that are full of nuance and contradiction and have interesting dialog, actors are drawn to that.

Good acting comes from finding the essence of a character.

The more I love the character, the harder it is to get it wrong. I have to get to a point that I can speak for them.

And I have the support of the writers: I have a great relationship with the creative team, and they have a good hold of my character and my personality, and they come up with some great stuff, and I'm forever trying to change it up, keep it fresh.

I love it and it is a blessing to be able to have seventy-five to eighty episodes to develop a character and find your voice. You have a similar through voice, and yet you are making different decisions, and so you act differently and you make different choices, as that is what your character would do.