Gopi Sundar Quotes

When I see an emotion being enacted by a great actor, I always feel I can never do that.

Nobody is more truthful when he's acting than De Niro.

Actors are magical people. They can take words you wrote and say them in a way that, although you thought the line was good when you wrote it, it's fantastic when it comes out of their mouth.

In some ways, I've always approached singing as acting, and the voice is just like a way of carrying the song.

An emotional performance is usually more instinctive to an actor.

Good actors, you always know what they're thinking. That's why they're good actors.

I'm on fire when I'm singing, I'm completely in character, I use my sense memories, and every syllable of it is meant. It's a very special thing.

It definitely helps to have the acting experience going into singing, because when you're singing, you have to portray the emotion you were feeling when you wrote the song. They're the same thing, in a way; it's expressing your emotions through words.

In film, you're always using your tools, your body, your voice, your emotions, but onstage, you use them in a different way.

With voice over work, you need to convey as much emotion as you can without making any physical movements, so it's hard. You've got to visualize everything.

The great actors are the luminous ones. They are the great conductors of the stage.

I love actors; I love seeing great performances. I just love that, when I'm seeing a performance, that inside me, I just go, 'Oh my God, how are you doing that? Where is that coming from?' Where you see an actor do something, and I can't even locate it in my own body.

It's a wonderful thing to watch an actor just act.

The skill of a gifted actor, their ability to interpret and develop a character and truly bring her or him to life, is one that I admire enormously.

When I watch an actress say a line, I watch how they deliver the lines with gestures.

I think an actor without life experiences is empty.

Mine is an actor's voice, not a singer's voice, but the part was written for an actor (Richard Burton), not a singer.

I think you can teach people a technique - you can teach them how to use their voices, how to breathe properly, how to move their limbs a certain way. But to actually explain how one performs comedy or drama or tragedy isn't the same as the movements one makes.

I think when you're just counting on your voice, you actually need double the energy. I find myself acting out the scenes and being very physical while I'm recording because I think you can tell when someone is just sitting on a stool.

My job is usually to express emotion as freely as possible.

An actor who knows his business ought to be able to make the London telephone directory sound enthralling.

One of my favorite actors is Paul Newman. He could tell so much with a single look, whereas some actors would need an entire five page monologue to give off the feeling of what he could say with just a single look.

I don't sing as well as my mother. I'm a good actress. I'm not that good a singer.

When actors are talking, they are servants of the dramatist. It is what they can show the audience when they are not talking that reveals the fine actor.

An actor is somebody who communicates someone else's words and emotions to an audience. It's not me. It's what writers want me to be.