Gautam Rode Quotes

There's no one more willing to do something than an actor when it comes to perfecting a scene.

Britain produces great actors because they learn on stage so know their stuff when they get on a movie set.

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

Film acting is really the trick of doing moments. You rarely do a take that lasts more than 20 seconds. You really earn your spurs acting onstage. I needed to do that for myself. I would hate to say at the end of everything that I never did a stage play.

Actors are conditioned to develop a system for expressing as much as they can in the shortest amount of time because you're going to get all cut up in a movie.

You can't learn how to act; you can only really learn it through experience and practice and really finding what your voice is and what you want to be as an actor.

I'm an actor. I play roles in films and theaters. I don't act out, and I don't play people.

These are rare moments in an actor's life, where you're put in an environment which is so natural, and you get natural performances.

A lot of film acting is about being casual.

As an actor, my job is to go to the set, read my scene and perform to the best of my abilities.

I love the art of acting, so I don't care if I'm in a movie with 10 people, two people, or by myself. I just really enjoy it.

I have had a lot of training as an actor, but it's very different than being on set.

For the actors, the talent is to serve the demands that I ask of them, to do it with naturality and truth, and to be honest when we were terrified.

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.

Part of the fun of acting is the research, finding out about other people.

There's a lot of actors that I admire because they can just switch one second into the character. Then, they go back to jokes, and then they're doing something really dramatic. I can't do that. I have to really focus.

Vary the pace... is one of the foundations of all good acting.

Well, all I can say is thank goodness I had 15 years of theater before ever I did film roles. You build technique that you can rely on.

All actors do that. Should do that and do that. For the most part. I say all actors. I'm exaggerating, but you know who does and who doesn't. Vince is a wonderful young actor who knows his work and did a beautiful job on this film.

What's interesting about the process of acting is how often you don't know what you're doing.

You can be in an acting class all you want, but you don't fully learn until you get off that stage and in front of a camera.

I look at actors very closely. It's not an accident when the actors excel.

When you work with actors, what you're hoping to absorb is good ways to be an actor as opposed to how to handle being famous.

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

I don't have actor training myself.