Radha Ravi Quotes

In 'There Will Be Blood,' my character was someone who was an actor himself almost. He had a rehearsed quality about him. He was a performance artist in a way.

Every actor turns everything round to their character.

I'm not the kind of actor who goes into exhaustive research for each role.

I don't really ever think about whether or not I like the characters I'm playing. I'm more into the minutiae of their behaviour or what they're doing in a certain scene.

I try to get roles that challenge me in what I can do and who I think I can portray. For me, it's about creating characters with really fascinating stories, because that's what I like to watch on TV.

Any sort of role requires a certain amount of research and embodiment of the character and psychological investigation.

The most vital thing for an actor to deliver a great performance is to be honest to the role he or she is playing.

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.

As an actor, you are always looking for subtext, for layers, for what's going on underneath.

I think that different actors go about their preparation differently, but when it comes to acting, I use my imagination.

I don't really worry about the size of the part much any more. It's nice to have more time to work on the character, and to have big scenes to play. But if there's something playable there, and if it's interesting to do, then that's nice.

You try to get to know your character as best as you can before you start filming - what's written and not written.

To play any character, you have to have a total understanding of why they do what they do.

I like character-driven stuff. It doesn't matter, the size of the part.

Any actor who judges his character is a fool - for every role you play you've got to absorb that character's motives and justifications.

When I get a role, I try to delve as deeply as possible into the character.

Any time you get to dig deeper into your character, you welcome it, especially on a TV show.

It's very, very important to me, no matter who the person is, to play that person with the utmost degree of truth that I'm able to bring. But playing a character like Jack Sparrow or Willy Wonka, that requires nothing but a degree of responsibility to the intent of the story - responsibility to the film-maker to deliver the goods.

Don't start writing your novel until you know your characters very, very well. What they'd do if they saw somebody shoplifting. What they were like at school. What shoes they wear. Spend days - weeks, months - being them until they thicken up and start to breathe.

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.

I think that each character has fascinated and interested me enough to want to play him.

There are always practical decisions to be made about any character you're playing.

I don't see a difference between playing a performance capture role and a live action role, they're just characters to me at the end of the day and I'm an actor who wants to explore those characters in fantastically written scripts. The only caveat is a good story is a good character.

I like to stay within the context of the character's background. If he's a cop, I have to make sure the audience is convinced that this person, a cop, can do only so much without a gun.

For me, when I'm making a movie I like to stay in character throughout the day.