Kriti Kharbanda Quotes

I feel that one of the hardest things in acting is the way you need to switch your emotions.

As an actor, you're trying to capture the nuances of real life, but voice work is almost over-acting.

That is one of the first things my family, my mother and my grandfather, had taught me about acting: 'Use your eyes!' Not being able to do that physical aspect of it, and having to put it all into your voice? That was a little bit of a challenge.

I'm an emotional actor. When I'm doing a scene, I really believe it. I live the part as long as I'm in the scene.

I can't act, and so I have to live that particular character in my real life and then exhibit it on screen.

I really think that studying theater early on really helped me to be able to identify how to get into a character, because it's such a mysterious thing. Learning objective acting in the beginning of my career was the best thing I could have ever done.

There were time when I was into method acting that I did have moments of residual character emotions, because the method bases your emotional responses as a character on emotional experiences from your real life.

But the throat just kind of falls into line once you realize in your head what it is. You got to remember the musicality of a character you're going to do.

When I am dubbing for my character, if I laugh at the figure on the screen, I know I have done well.

I do sometimes wonder if people think, 'Oh we'll have her because she cries well.' The odd thing is I don't really know where it comes from. If the script is good, I find I can usually cry without too much trouble - in fact, the hard thing is trying to get me to stop. But I'm not really a crier in real life. I'm not a dramatic person, you see.

Doing voiceover is so much fun because you can play with the lines as much as you want. You can put a whole bunch of energy into it, jump up and down, whatever you got to do.

Good acting is confused with good dialogue delivery. Acting is about all about performance, and the way we interpret and understand the character that we bring alive onscreen.

Real acting is about giving people an insight into a person, letting the audience in.

Reacting is so important to the craft of acting.

I try to keep my voice natural for each character, but the spirit and the cadence and breathing for each character is totally different. It's those things that set each role apart from the others.

Very few ideas are better than Catherine O'Hara's ideas when it comes to acting.

Though I am associated in the public mind with glamorous songs and dances, my appearance in 'Company' is in no way glamorous. Rather than rely on my body language, the number zooms in on my facial expressions.

I think what actors have to do, what performers have to do to emotionally get to that place and have a camera and have your face 20 feet high on a screen, is such an incredible thing.

As an actor, I don't want an image. I want people to see the character, not me.

At drama school I learned the Stanislavski technique, which uses sentimental memories and bits of your past to put real emotion into the scene.

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.

I'm quite fluent in Telugu now, but there's a difference between talking and dubbing. While dubbing, the diction must be in sync with the emotion in the scene and would impact my performance.

An accent always helps me ground a character. It also helps to remind me what age I'm playing.

As an actor, I think the experience and the portrayal of the character is exactly the same. It doesn't make any difference what camera is capturing it. You have to do it with the same passion.

I am not that big a method actor.