Madhura Naik Quotes

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

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 think chemistry and great acting go hand-in-hand.

Playing a real-life character, as an actor, gives me real high because there is so much of research material available in front of you.

I like to play people that are real, a real person, and then something that's interesting with that person. I think it's a lot more challenging to do that than something that's extremely fantasy-like.

Sometimes I think of movie acting as advanced pretend.

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.

That's what acting is. You're pretending to be someone else.

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 see all these people talking about acting as a great spiritual thing. It's not. There's no great mystery to acting. It's a very simple thing to do, but you have to work hard at it. It's about asking questions and using your imagination.

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.

Everything, I think, about acting is based on imagination.

I think the buzz of acting is playing people different to you, and for me, that means traversing all genres.

The whole thing about acting, the draw for me, is the opportunity to do things you don't get to do in real life.

Film acting has been a very pure experience, because you have to give the purest form of yourself as an artist.

In theater, you're playing characters. You believe you're somebody else, and you're acting.

Preparation is definitely important, but it depends on the kinds of roles I do. Like, I completely identify with my character in 'Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani.' I had to be myself and I didn't have to actually prepare for it.

The writer creates the role on the page and then the actor takes it and makes it their own.

Acting is also working with people who invite you into their dreams and trust you with their innermost being.

I would quite like to do a different accent or play something so different from myself because Olivia, the character I play in this film, is similar to me.

What I learned about acting is that you become the character, like I became 'Timothy Green.'

Arnaud Desplechin invented me as an actor. I never imagined I'd be acting in movies.

As actors, you play people who are not yourselves!

Not even my excellent training at Juilliard prepared me for my first movie role, where I played a transsexual who falls in love with a military guy in 'Soldier's Girl.'

I have plenty of dream roles because there is so much I want to do, but my dream year would be to be in a single-camera comedy and then, on my hiatus, film a little low-budget indie drama. That would be a dream 12-month period. A dream role depends on having good material and working with people that I can learn from.