Nivin Pauly Quotes

As an actor, I think it's always important to separate yourself from your characters because, when you include yourself in a character, you're taking a liberty that you don't really have unless you're life is that incredibly close to the character.

When I act, a part of me goes into the character I am playing.

I'm very much the type of actor that once I embody the character, I could stay in it from the beginning to the end.

I find that I kind of have to sink into the character.

I'm not a Method person, so I'm not like in character all the time.

There are so many ways to approach a character. You have to figure out the similarities between you and the character, build on them, and at the same time, blur the dissimilarities. Since you do it day in and day out, it becomes a process and a part of you.

I do enter into character on set, but I can step out of it.

I wouldn't say I'm a method actor. I do research when I feel I don't have enough experience for the part I'm playing.

I don't act in the way other actresses act, in terms of building or creating a character. I don't transform myself into the role, I invest myself in the role.

I do whatever I need to do to get into character. Sometimes it's being incredibly quiet, and sometimes it's being loose and goofy.

What I mostly do is take the script, analyse the hell out of it, see what's in there, see what kind of person I'm dealing with, and then forget I'm playing a father and just play a person who exemplifies all those things.

You hear stories of intense actors who can't shed their character and who don't know who they are for a week or two after. I'm not that guy, man.

I don't believe actors who say they don't bleed into their characters. It's absolutely impossible not to.

In terms of jumping into a character's skin, I try to immerse myself in the role as much as possible to bring me closer to them. All I do is what's required to achieve what I want to achieve.

I kinda lose my mind in 'Fringe,' or at least my character does. Whenever I'm acting, I tend to accidentally become unable to switch off the character. I'm a little bit of a method actor, but without really wanting to be.

I did 'Shameless' on Showtime, and I felt like I really tried to go super-method with that, and it would just make my days really hard to get in and out of character.

I wouldn't say I'm a Method actor, but there are times where a role will require you to live in their world.

As an actor, you don't want to ever get too comfortable where you're like, 'I know this character,' and you don't do the work anymore.

Whatever headspace you need to live in for your character is sort of where you stay in between scenes.

Actors like Daniel Day-Lewis, Gary Oldman, they totally immerse themselves in their parts.

You've got to bring yourself to any character you do.

It's my privilege to work with an actor like Vikram who gets into the skin of the character he is playing, so much so that after the shoot it takes him quite some time to get back to his real self.

It's more difficult for me to get into a character in the lead-up as opposed to leaving it.

In 'Begum Jaan,' a lot of people did not recognize me as my look was different. That is the big thing and it means you have gone so much into your character.

I always bring at least 15 to 20 percent of Tiffany to every character that I do. Like when I read 'Girls Trip,' I was like, 'Who been partying with me? Somebody been hanging out with me and done stole some stuff.'