Faran Tahir Quotes

I just let the work speak for itself. An actor is not afraid to take risks; to put on different hats; to be a good guy, a bad guy, a victim, an abuser. There are all kinds of people in the world, and playing them is what acting is all about.

What I love about my work is that I'm forced to look through my character's eyes.

My job is to see the world through the character's eyes.

If I wasn't an actor, I never would have known who Debbie Gallagher was. I never would know how her feelings are or how her emotions are, or her family.

I don't want to draw from my own experiences in life. I first like to become the character and then think from her point of view.

It doubles your perception, to write from the point of view of someone you're not.

Acting isn't necessarily pretending. It's storytelling. It's giving someone your perspective on something.

One of the pleasures of being an actor is quite simply taking a walk in someone else's shoes. And when I look at the roles I've played, I'm kind of amazed at all the wonderful adventures I've had and the different things I've learned.

It's great fun if you get a good piece of writing and you can pretend to be someone else, tell a story that needs to be told, make some kind of connection. I've always fancied myself as a leading man, but I really doubt whether anyone else sees me that way.

What's great about 'Game of Thrones' is they change the perspective, the POV, all the time. So you will have one story told by one character and you'll go, 'Oh my God, horrible', and then maybe the season after you have the same story told but from the person you thought was just the most horrible, vile creature.

One of the great pleasures of acting is surrendering to someone else's point of view of the world - living inside a character and a story that never would have come out of your mind or heart.

The good thing about being an actor, and the gift of being an actor, is that you are beautifully forced to see the world with different eyes.

I don't really distinguish between sympathy and honesty when I'm writing. The two go together - I'm interested in inhabiting my characters, seeing the world through their eyes.

What I loved about the acting class was that you got to think all day long about a person that wasn't you, and figure out why they were sad and what they wanted, what they dreamed.

As a writer, it is my job to tell a story. I don't want to get involved in social commentary; I just want to show issues from a different point of view. I want to show issues from a perspective that may not be highlighted.

You have to have sympathy for and an empathy with a character in order to play them.

Part of being a fiction writer is being able to imagine how someone else is thinking and feeling. I think I've always been good at that.

I really love playing a character that's a little younger than me, to be honest. Because even if it's just three years, I can bring perspective into it.

Yes, of course it's fun to play evil, but it's simply fun to play any different characters.

What's nice about acting is that you're not just left with yourself all the time, but you get to see the world through so many different people's eyes.

A good novel is something that challenges perception, that allows you to see the world anew through a different point of view - something that genre fiction doesn't do, although it sells more because it doesn't disturb people's innate sense of what a novel should be about. Often, people want characters to be nice, for example.

The essence of acting is seeing the world from another point of view. That's what acting is.

As a writer, it is always fun to imagine yourself in someone else's shoes.

I love the creating part of taking on a character. It is fun to be another person and create what it would be like to be that person.

To me, this is the singular privilege of reading literature: we are allowed to step into another's life.