Smriti Irani Quotes

As an actor, what you dream of is being able to portray people that people empathize with and understand and really feel for.

As an actor, you always have to love who you are playing.

I'm not an actress who can create a character. I play me.

I've played parts that were just likable people, and there's a certain pleasure in that. And that's that.

A lot of actors like saying, 'Don't judge a character; you might fall in love with him!' Not me.

As an actor, you can't just imitate someone. You have to get under her skin.

I don't see a difference between the idea of what an actor does and what someone supposes a character actor is, really.

Real acting is about giving people an insight into a person, letting the audience in.

Well, as an actor, at least from my standpoint, I can't not like who I'm playing.

As an actor, you can do what you want with your role. That's why they hire you; to take the role and make it real.

Basically, you're selling a world as an actor, right? I mean it's like any sales person: if you believe in your product, you know your product, you sell it a lot better.

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.

I love acting, and ultimately all my characters are very different, and each character I love in a different way.

I tend to get comfortable with the dialogue and find out who the person is in the script and try to hit that. People are sort of independent of their occupations and their pastimes. You don't play a politician or a fireman or a cowboy - you just play a person.

Good acting comes from finding the essence of a character.

As an actor, you always want to find a piece of who you are in every role you take on.

I suppose with any character that you play you always bring your personal experience to it. You always bring people that you know or that you've met and sort of - this is what I do, I mean, I don't know what anyone else does - but people that you know or that you've met that have affected you in certain ways, you bring into it.

I think you ultimately have to love who you're playing. You have to have that kind of feeling. You have to have passion for the person.

That's what I love about acting, is playing different roles. I want to work for the character, and not make it work for me.

People often ask me, was it hard to play this person or that person? Well, no, not really. Acting is what I do. It's my job.

I love to be a working actor, and I love to read scripts as they come in. If I find the script or character that is interesting, I want to transform myself into that character.

I'm an emotional actor. When I'm doing a scene, I really believe it. I live the part as long as I'm in the scene.

I still love finding the soul of the characters I play and defining who they are. This to me is my paint set, and the colors are always exciting to choose.

My approach as an actor has always been the same, in that the greatest gift that you're ever going to have is your imagination because you're not going to have all life experiences. So you draw on things that are sort of close to it but you spend your time expanding on it or drawing something specific on whatever your situation is.

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