Manoj Bajpayee Quotes

I love creating characters that people may or may have not ever seen before. But I enjoy the opportunity to try to make something new, and that's when I really come alive as an actor, so I really enjoyed working on 'Arrow.'

As an actor, I'm always up for exploring and trying new things.

Theater is a way to keep challenging myself.

It's your job as an actor to fill out the blanks. I love doing that. To fill in the bones.

I wanted to be an actor. That was my real goal. But I wasn't any good at it, so I wrote my own material and acted through that. That's my idea of fun. I get to be all these things in the songs.

When I started acting, it was really the way for me to be able to communicate.

I love to act, and I try to be challenged by what I do.

That's the beauty of the acting world. You can play so many different characters who know and do so many things that you have no idea about as yourself. So I'm a big fan of workshops and classes and learning new things because you can always apply it. It's your little supply bag of creativity. Keep filling it up.

There's always a sense of newness with acting, because every role, you come to every role fresh.

I think having a character piece is great. It will challenge you and be different.

Your job as an actor is to piece together whatever you've learned in your training, or whatever you have experienced in your life, to piece together a person.

I'm always looking for roles to challenge me and ones which I'll enjoy playing.

For me, a film is a film, and I just want to be part of good stories to grow as an actor.

I would do theatre till I die. Theatre keeps your honesty alive. You can't pollute yourself. You learn a lot, and you use theatre techniques in life.

Every project is a new challenge for an actor. If it's not, it's boring.

Acting is the ability to dream on cue.

All you ever really want is a great character and great writing. As an actor, that's the juiciest sandwich you could ever ask for.

Creating a character and living truthfully through her is a whole different ball game. It's all part of the same person but it's a much newer medium for me.

Being an actor myself I realize that all actors believe they are qualified to play any role. If you showed me a script with a black woman character I would tell you that I could do it. That is what we do. We act as if we are someone else.

In terms of the character itself, I can't really say that I find anything really difficult. I enjoy the character so much I don't perceive difficulty in trying to be him. It's just a matter of how do we get there.

Characters don't belong to anyone, not even the person who plays them.

Acting is the most communicative thing I can imagine doing.

Everything you do on set is directly related to your imagination when you read the script for the first time.

As an actor, one's role is very much to respond and react to the situation within the context of the character and his world.

Being an actor is an extension of telling a story and I loved story telling as a child.