Jasmin Bhasin Quotes

Man is a make-believe animal: he is never so truly himself as when he is acting a part.

I play myself all the time, on camera and off. What else can I do?

Acting is what I do with who I am.

You're never really playing yourself. You're always acting. It's an illusion that you're really playing yourself. The only time I'm playing myself is when I'm at home!

Actors play different characters in every project they do. Though it has nothing to do with my craft, the red carpet gives me the opportunity to show who I really am and be myself.

I'm not really an impersonator.

Well, you create your own persona, don't you? And you have to live with that. But the people that I meet, they don't think that I'm a lunatic. And if they do, then that's OK, because it means that I'm playing the parts all right.

I play roles, but when I'm off stage, I always try to be myself.

You can be, like, a totally different person on camera, and it's fun. You can take on another character, and it's awesome.

I play a character every day of my life, and I don't want to play a character as myself. They can judge me as an actress, not as a person. I'm not a spokeswoman for Anna.

Modeling gave me an opportunity to be someone I'm not each day.

You have to be someone.

I became an actor so I didn't have to be myself.

Who I am on stage is very, very different to who I am in real life.

The trick is not to become somebody else. You become somebody else when you're in front of a camera or when you're on stage. There are some people who carry it all the time. That, to me, is not acting.

I do not want to play a character who is exactly like me.

If you have to change something about you to be in a part, I don't think it's easy to do. You should just pick the part where you can just be yourself.

The best advice my dad ever gave me is that acting is believing. Acting is not acting. It isn't putting on a face and dancing around in a mask. It's believing that you are that character and playing him as if it were a normal day in the life of that character.

I can't take the theater side out of myself.

Every part I play is just a variant of my own personality. No real character actor, of course, just me.

That's why I'm an actress, to do something completely opposite from myself.

As an actor, we spend so much putting the mask on and trying to be someone you're not.

Often, when I finish a film, I'll have that feeling inside me: 'I never want to do this ever again. I don't want to pretend anymore. I want to be myself and do that.'

In the role of Miss Munim, I had credibility as an individual.

I love to act and put on a show, but you're playing a character all the time. For music, it's really just me being myself.