Steven Pasquale Quotes

I've always been an actor. That's my job — I can be anything you want me to be.

As far as being an actor is concerned, you have to have passion. If you're not bringing the passion of the character into the room with you, you might as well not come into the room at all.

I wanted to be an actor. Maybe a comic actor, but an actor. That's what got me into acting was putting on an act, because in life, I wasn't funny and I felt on stage or in the movies, I could do whatever I wanted to. I was free.

It's not most important to communicate myself on stage as it is to be as funny or interesting as I possibly can on stage. I feel more like I'm doing a play whose main character just happens to share my name.

I don't really think it matters if you go into stage or TV as long as you do a bit of character work, really.

What I truly get excited about is not the genre of a movie or the size of a part - it's character. I like to find characters.

The role of an actor is to make every character believable.

I play one role until I take on another, which is exactly what a professional actor should do.

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

I like to play non-cardboard characters. I try and bring out the many complex layers in the personality of the characters I play.

As an actor, I always feel that each and every character in my films has to be distinct. The character Thilak that I play in 'Kavan' will be one such unique role in my career.

Actors can be many things - vain, venal, self-serving, obnoxious, bullies - but all of the good ones are great storytellers. I wanted to watch what my actors were doing and how they were telling the story.

I have played some very kind and loving character. I don't know why I'm so good at playing bad. I really don't.

You're just playing a role, whether it's a drama or a comedy. I find it really fun to sort of play opposite Uma.

People keep asking me, 'What evil lurks in you to play such bad characters?' There is no evil in me, I just wear tight underwear.

Movies and acting are so much fun. I love playing different characters and doing different genres. It's all still very interesting to me.

You don't do characters that are the same as you, otherwise why bother to act?

To go on being an actor, you need sheer animal energy. If you can't restock your energy, you have to hide your lack of it.

I enjoy directing, but I really like acting more. The idea of controlling the whole thing is not something that really appeals to me as much as being able to just control the world of the character that I'm dealing with.

One of the things I love, more than anything, is jumping around and playing lots of different parts. I love the variety of playing different characters.

I have always wanted to do a book about actors because I think that the death of a character is a tremendously emotional experience.

The actor has to have some degree of craft, along with the talent. No one tries to laugh except bad actors. No one tries to cry except bad actors. How a character hides his feelings tells us who he is. Most people don't know that, and most actors don't do that. Therefore, there are a lot of actors who put me to sleep, that are considered good actors, but they're predictable and boring. I know how the scene is going to end before it ends.

I think theater has given me the opportunity to show what a character actor I can be.

When I saw my first movie, I was fine, but I thought, "Oh, my heavens. It's not about just standing there on my mark and saying these lines. I need to actually act."

All you really have when you're acting is the confidence and your ability to manage and tell a story by creating a character.