Jasmin Bhasin Quotes

I feel like my responsibility as an actor is to make characters as compelling and believable as possible.

The day the audience feel they are watching Parvathy instead of the character, that would be me failing as an actor.

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.

Actors pull from their own experiences to bring reality to the characters. I wouldn't want to play someone who's a lot like me. There would be no turning it on or off.

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

How do I act so well? What I do is I pretend to be the person I'm portraying in the film or play.

As an actor, I've always been interested in making sure I can perform the role and the lines in the way the writer intended.

When you see my performances, even people that you might have known, like Nicky Barnes in 'American Gangster,' you have to get over the fact that I look like Cuba Gooding, Jr. But once you find truth in the performance, if I'm doing my job right, you believe everything.

I love acting, and ultimately all my characters are very different, and each character I love in a different way.

Good acting comes from finding the essence of a character.

I think you ultimately have to love who you're playing. You have to have that kind of feeling. You have to have passion for the person.

I always find that I have to be emotionally on my character's side for it to be convincing.

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

You want to try and bring a character to life in an honest a way as you possibly can. It doesn't matter whether he's a doctor, an actor, a car salesman or a captain of a starship. If you can bring truth and honesty to that character, then your audience will believe you.

I hate acting when I see it. I don't want to feel it, I don't want to see it, I want to be taken away with the story - I don't want the actor's ego in front of me. That's what I try to live when I do the work.

In terms of likeability, that's something that I don't think about as an actor when I approach a role.

Some actors can distance themselves from the parts they play, but I fall into the category who use bits of themselves.

Obviously an actor draws on his own experience.

All of the actors that have served to me as inspiration over the years have been those more associated with dramatic work who have, in turn, been able to embody their characters and lose themselves in those characters that they create.

You draw on whatever's relevant to the part you're playing; it makes it more personal.

It's easier to see in someone else, another actor, how they kind of disappear and then this other persona appears. A great actor is a thing of mystery.

As an actor, what you dream of is being able to portray people that people empathize with and understand and really feel for.

Some actors are brilliant character guys. They submerge.

An actor is an actor is an actor. The less personality an actor has off stage the better. A blank canvas on which to draw the characters he plays.

I don't know if I'm a method actor.