Shweta Tripathi Quotes

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.

As an actor, particularly because I'm - I would call myself a character actor. I change my look, my physical appearance and my body, my hair color, my whatever all the time for a role.

We are actors. We can adapt to any different look for the sake of the story and the character.

Actors love mental disorders, dialects, and corsets. Give them one of the three and they're happy.

Sometimes I think of movie acting as advanced pretend.

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?'

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.

When I do film, I really take on roles and I take on characters.

When it comes to the acting stuff, I like to show up for a couple days and kind of be outrageous and silly, and go back to my day job.

If I were to play somebody who ran a fish and chip shop, I would not work in a fish and chip shop for three months. Staring at chips is not going to help me in my performance.

In acting, you have to pull from real-life situations, from people, to help develop a character.

Acting can be a really silly thing. It's like playing dress-up.

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.

A lot of actors and actresses pull from past experiences.

For my money, when you're doing an on-camera performance, unless it's for something particularly stylised, you are, by and large, striving for naturalism.

When you get to set, you don't try to play the plot; you just play the character.

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.

When you go into the realm of a double role, you have to take it to another level to make it believable.

I'm one of those actors who finds the part in the wardrobe.

An actor will use every piece of information at their disposal, or a good actor will.

I'm the sort of actor who likes to talk about what we're going to do.

Acting has always been something I've wanted to get into. I think the best models are actors; you're taking on a character. In that sense, I have been acting for a long time. It didn't seem like a crazy transition.

I just love to act. I like to get away, totally play a different character, someone you can get really involved in knowing. I've gotten really involved in some characters and written down little summaries of where they live and what their families are like.

An actor is an impersonator; he plays many different roles. If you played the same role all the time, God - that'd be a boring career. When you take on different roles and become a different person, that's called acting... It's a challenge.

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