Tamannaah Quotes

It's fun to play the character and then watch him later.

Acting is something different to everybody. I just know that if you watch an actor or actress getting better and better, I think that's them just understanding themselves better and better.

Obviously an actor draws on his own experience.

Just observing - that's the best skill of all for an actor!

I want to play an action hero. I'm ready for roles that totally aren't me.

I think acting is a fun thing because you get to have so many lifetimes in one lifetime, being all these different people.

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

Some actors get by with behaving, not acting. You've got to sell the effect. I act more in the 'Nightmare' movies because it's not like me. I'm acting, not reacting.

I think of myself as an actor. The duty of an actor is to be able to impersonate anything - a child, an old man, a tree, a chair, a woman.

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

Sometimes acting is really cool because it forces you to exercise certain muscles in your personality that you wouldn't normally be called upon in life.

Acting is not being emotional, but being able to express emotion.

There is probably some great acting that goes on in movies from people who have never been on a stage, but if you are in for the long haul, you'd be missing an enormous part of what being an actor is if you're not part of theater.

Movie acting is about covering the machinery. Stage acting is about exposing the machinery. In cinema, you should think the actor is playing himself, if he's that good. It looks very easy. It should. But it's not, I assure you.

I think sometimes soap acting gets an unfair label for being bad and over the top. The lessons I learned there were so valuable. Seeing yourself every day on television, you learned what worked and didn't work, what was bad acting and what wasn't. Memorizing scripts became second nature.

You learn more discipline in the theatre than you do in movies or TV. You're on stage every night and you have to sustain your energy level tor several hours.

I don't know what acting is, but I enjoy it.

For me, acting is play. It's just play and it's playing make believe really, really well.

Acting is all about timing. I mean, who has better timing than the MCs?

When I started acting almost 50 years ago, it wasn't about fame. It was about acting.

I got into acting for the different scenarios and roles and meeting different people.

I really enjoy acting. I feel I'm getting better and better with each movie I make.

How do I act so well? What I do is I pretend to be the person I'm portraying in the film or play.

I go to acting class, and in acting class, I'm not the girl that brings in romantic comedies; I'm the girl that wants to do 'Girl Interrupted' all the time.

I kind of dwindled into acting.