Karthik Subbaraj Quotes

There is such a thing as my kind of actor, and how well they pull off my dialogue is a very, very important part of it.

There are actors who can pull of a writer's lines; I am not competent enough to do that.

Good actors, you always know what they're thinking. That's why they're good actors.

With some actors, you can tell when they're acting all by themselves, no matter who else is in the screen.

Emotional power is maybe the most valuable thing that an actor can have.

You can have good writing, but a great actor will make it feel and sound like great writing. You can have great writing, and mediocre actors will make it feel mediocre. Without the actors, you have nothing.

It's no accident that Tony Hopkins is a wonderful film actor.

When actors are talking, they are servants of the dramatist. It is what they can show the audience when they are not talking that reveals the fine actor.

I think you can really tell a good actor if you can put a camera on them and they can just talk and emote and react and you don't have to keep cutting away from them, because they are the language and the behavior. It's all a tour-de-force performance.

I just adore Kate Winslet. I love her because you're never aware of all the stuff that's going into her characterization and, yet, she completely transforms.

You have to do real acting, not just do a voice.

My background is really being a writer's actor - that seems to be the way I work best, bringing out the best of writing. There's a whole range of acting skills, and some people can be astonishing with very poor material. That's not me; my skill is essentially unlocking the writing.

I find it quite easy to get in and out of character. I don't know why - I guess it's my job.

I think, at the end of the day, if you're a good actor, then you're a good actor.

When I talk about character work, I don't really feel like i do much as an actor when I look at other great actors who win big awards for doing incredible transformations.

Any actor I admire and enjoy working with - Sergi Lopez as the bad guy in 'Pan's Labyrinth,' or the little girl who played young Mako in 'Pacific Rim,' it makes no difference - I like actors with a very strong centre.

An actor can give his best shot but the script and dialogues have to have punch to make it more effective.

I will never be a Robert De Niro or Meryl Streep, the kind of actor that disappears into a role.

I believe how a character eventually turns out is completely attributable to an actor. Even with a meaty role, if I am enacting it as an accessory, I will look like an accessory.

A lot of really good actors are able to go straight from life to their work. They don't treat it as something that's an unattainable, weird thing that they have to aspire to and reach for in a scene.

I think personal growth has much to do with acting ability.

There are no small parts. Only small actors.

My heroes are Bill Murray and Dustin Hoffman. Those are the two actors that both do comedies and dramas, seamlessly. Also John C. Reilly and Philip Seymour Hoffman. They're all just great actors, neither comedic nor dramatic. They're just great actors.

The art of acting consists in keeping people from coughing.

Fonda and Gary Cooper had the best sense of timing of all the actors I knew.