Persis Khambatta Quotes

I've always wanted to shave my head for a role because I've wanted to play a character who had a shaved head. I don't know what the fascination is.

I'm an actor, and I like having attention, I guess. There's a reason I like being on stage. There's a reason I like being in front of a camera. It's that interaction.

For an actress there is no greater gift than having a camera in front of you, listening to the most beautiful music in the world and just being looked at!

I love film sets, but I don't necessarily love being the center of attention.

We are not the originators of the story. I think it's actually the opposite when you're an actor. You're telling somebody else's story.

Not one role that I've played has been written specifically for me.

The role of an actor is to make every character believable.

I'll always be back to the stage. I have no doubt that the stage will always call me back. There will always be a character that no one else can play, and I'll be back to play it.

One of my favorite experiences in my career, certainly one of the most interesting characters I've ever played, was Simon Lee on 'The Event.' That was a show I was quite proud of and a character I really enjoyed playing. It was one of the most three-dimensional characters that was ever written for me and that I'd ever gotten to play.

Acting attracts shy people and show-offs.

The most important part of acting is listening. So always act like you’re listening.

Drama is more focused, and it reveals itself to you, whereas comedy is just right there when you first read it.

Getting in and out of a character takes its own time for me.

I played an old woman in a wheelchair at 18.

I play a tough cop in 'Very Good' and the role is quite similar to Dhaya Nayak, Mumbai's popular encounter specialist. I have made all efforts to fit the role.

I work according to the kind of character they want me to play.

Being on stage, I know my function. I just do the thing.

I would love to be a part of an interesting, entertaining film in which I shine like never before.

No one ever has a chance to get to know the real me because I do play a bad guy, and sometimes it's hard to soak in the comments or the negativity because that's the response you want to elicit. I am a normal person, but that's part of the job. I'm playing a character, and that's my role.

I worked very hard playing Arjun, and I was consumed by the character.

For an actor, it's not like you have to go crazy to do an intense role.

If I sit quietly in a corner waiting for the camera to roll, it doesn't mean that I am aloof and cut off from people. It could be that I am thinking about the shot or going over my lines.

On stage, everyone stays put; the vantage point is always the vantage point, and you have to play to the size of the house. And of course, on film, there's different angles, different shots, so that determines how animated or how still you must be.

In Chicago, anything that you're doing, the community gives it value. Every little improv show, every scrappy reading, and every lead on a Goodman mainstage. It's all a promising opportunity for a young actor.

You're always trying to find common ground with whatever you do, but you want to not be thinking about yourself when you're performing a play. The job is getting yourself out of the way and letting the character go about the scenes.