Pawan Kalyan Quotes

You can't really judge characters, because that's when it gets really hard to play them.

Whether you need to like a character, I don't think that's necessary in order to portray him.

I used to think the actor's job was immersing himself completely in another personality.

With any role, you're extending yourself and acting out things that never happened to you.

That's what acting is. You're pretending to be someone else.

As long as you have the acting chops and the desire to get inside a character, you can play anything.

It's true I have a hard time with the notion of creating a character. And I feel it's a limit. I'm always really impressed by actors who are able to construct a character, like Johnny Depp.

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.

There are always practical decisions to be made about any character you're playing.

In every character that you play... I mean, I don't think I'll ever be the type of actor or performer per se who transforms, you know? Like Claire Danes transforms into Temple Grandin - I'm not gonna do that.

I love to act because I love trying on other people's skin.

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

I don't approach a role by saying I'll be unsavory or unlikable.

Some actors are brilliant character guys. They submerge.

There's a great tradition of actors taking on parts of much less obvious sympathy.

As actors, that has been challenging for us to pick up the nuances of the living legends we are playing.

I was blown away watching Michael Keaton act because he was such a maniacal, evil person on set. He takes on a totally different life, and it was so amazing to watch him work.

The actor's job is to put themselves in the shoes of the character they are trying to portray as truthfully as possible.

When you watch me on the screen, you should not be able to recognise me. If people say, you're a natural and an organic actor, that's an insult. If you're being yourself all the time on screen, that means you don't know how to act.

I want to just be able to act and be like the girl next door or the cute babysitter or the busy mom who's fun or who knows, maybe something super dramatic, somebody who's really insecure and angry.

In acting you have to not be yourself. It's like whatever character is put on, you have to just to turn into that person.

I adore actors/actresses that have range: someone that can transform into a character that is far beyond who they truly are. Charlize Theron and Johnny Depp are amazing at this.

If you're playing the bad guy, you have to find what you like about them.

I love acting and really taking on another person, another life.

Transformational acting was the reason why I became an actor in the first place. Your hair and make-up and the costume are the tools that you have, and it makes you feel like that person. When you look in the mirror, you don't feel like yourself, and it changes the way you move. I love that stuff.