Siddharth Shukla Quotes

I think the buzz of acting is playing people different to you, and for me, that means traversing all genres.

Well, with each character that I play in my life as an actor, I try to figure out how to find the challenge.

I had an acting teacher tell me once that if you're playing a car salesman, you don't want to be an OK car salesman, you want to play the best car salesman.

In acting class, teachers talk about how the 'givens' of a situation help define a character.

I had to focus and create a character in Bagger Vance, not just do my 'Will Smith' thing and get paid.

We play many emotions in our careers, emotions that in real life we would perform just once. For example, my character has died in about 10 films, so you have to keep searching for different ways to do it!

There's nothing worse - I don't like listening to actors talk about the process, especially when - I mean, for me I've played a lot of guys, dudes, boys in a sense and this was a challenge for me just to play that official character.

Yeah, I think the common denominator - and this is probably going to sound like Acting 101 - but the common denominator is belief in the character in the moment.

Every actor has to love and loathe the character he plays.

That's what I love about acting, is playing different roles. I want to work for the character, and not make it work for me.

What I learned about acting is that you become the character, like I became 'Timothy Green.'

I think every role you do prepares you for the next one. Of course, 'Nashville' has been, and will continue to be, a huge learning experience for me as an actor. It's something that I grew a lot doing.

Some of the great characters that I've played had to be transformational.

Even though I was theatrically trained, learning to develop a character was an awesome experience.

I always treat all the jobs I do as an acting class.

To be honest, I never went to school for acting, and I never learned to break down a script. I took acting classes my whole life, but they never taught me anything about acting. They just taught me about myself.

You can't learn how to act; you can only really learn it through experience and practice and really finding what your voice is and what you want to be as an actor.

It's exciting to play someone who is a bit tougher than I am. I liked feeling those adjustments.

My character in 'Hollyoaks' went through absolutely everything! There's not one emotion where I'm going to go, 'I don't know how to play this.'

As an actor, I always like some tension, some distance, between me and the character I'm playing.

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.

Sometimes I'm playing somebody that I may have a problem with. Your job as an actor is not to go only play things that make you look good.

As an actor just learning the craft, you literally do a scene with Jimmy Gandolfini, and you walk away a better actor.

As actors, when we keep working every day, after a point of time, we just know all our emotional cards and how to play them.

I don't think I was bubbly in 'Oohalu Gusagusalade.' It was a real character.