Vijay Sethupathi Quotes

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

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.

Sometimes I think of movie acting as advanced pretend.

That was the fun of acting, being a blank canvas you could transform into the character - Indian princess, 20s vamp, Mother Courage, Oxford don, 94-year-old wife.

I'm an actor and my job is to interpret.

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'm a method actor.

My favorite thing about being an actor is that I get to be so many different people in one lifetime. You sort of get to be all of these different characters.

I understand what it is that actors do. They embody someone that they aren't.

I'm an actor in that I just want to create roles and characters and play parts that people remember and like or dislike or hate.

As an actor, it's more interesting to play a nerd than anything else. It's a lot more fun - you don't worry about 'what's my hair like?' in the morning or 'which is my great angle?'

I have just gained a deeper and deeper respect for acting and the whole art of it because you're really trying to live a life and to do the best justification for it.

I love telling stories. I like the challenges presented to me on a daily basis. There's nothing resting about acting.

What I like about acting is that you can be a different person every day.

I'm sort of a reverse Method actor. In my personal life, I become my characters. After 'One Tree Hill', I started dressing in Converse and ripped jeans and hoodies. On 'Awkward', it manifests in how I speak.

As actors, you play people who are not yourselves!

Actors are investigators.

I love acting. It's an interesting challenge to make something that doesn't exist appear like it's happening, and to do it in a real way.

Acting is not just impersonating your character.

Trying to be a good actor has to be involved with placing yourself imaginatively in different people's circumstances.

Actors act... Their job is to become this character. And I have, in fact, seen Sam Heughan become Jamie and Caitriona Balfe become Claire right before my eyes. It was an astonishing transformation.

It was very difficult acting. I feel it is a very tough job to portray someone else's character and to behave like that on screen.

As an actor, my body is my tool to flesh out the roles I play.

When a role involves physical transformation, it helps build the character better.

Every actor has a method.