Gautam Rode Quotes

We are actors. We can adapt to any different look for the sake of the story and the character.

That was the fun of acting, being a blank canvas you could transform into the character - Indian princess, 20s vamp, Mother Courage, Oxford don, 94-year-old wife.

I've been lucky enough to do a few roles where you get to be crazy and wild, put on contacts and different wigs and different hairpieces and dresses and outfits and embody the craziness of it all.

It's not brain surgery. I focus on getting the costumes right, getting the body language. I do what I can with the makeup.

I love acting, though I don't like the frills around it - red-carpet appearances, dressing up to look a certain way.

Before I started acting, I'd never wear makeup.

As an actor, it's more interesting to play a nerd than anything else. It's a lot more fun - you don't worry about 'what's my hair like?' in the morning or 'which is my great angle?'

What drew me to acting in the first place was disguise.

Getting all dressed up and putting on fancy clothes - all of that's a great thing, but oddly, it doesn't really have a lot to do with acting most of the time.

I have played a few lay saints in my time.

Standing in public in other people's clothes, pretending to be someone else. It's a strange way for a grown man to make a living.

I'm an actor and my job is to interpret.

Acting can be a really silly thing. It's like playing dress-up.

I'm an actor, and I'm supposed to reflect real people.

I had no idea of the character. But the moment I was dressed, the clothes and the make-up made me feel the person he was. I began to know him, and by the time I walked onto the stage he was fully born.

As an actor, particularly because I'm - I would call myself a character actor. I change my look, my physical appearance and my body, my hair color, my whatever all the time for a role.

I play a crazy talk-show host, but that's not me. It's like an actor playing a role.

I will confess I did none of my own singing. I did all my own costume and makeup, though.

I'm just a stage actress. I'm very comfortable onstage.

I personally prefer being a blonde, but whatever it takes for the character.

I understand what it is that actors do. They embody someone that they aren't.

I have been a scrappy actor for 10-plus years, and when you're playing supporting roles, your relationship with the costume designer is very different.

I don't like doing pictures as myself. I like to be made into someone else.

As a writer, I think I'm mainly interested in contemporary themes, so when I create my own stuff, it's inherently that. But as an actor, I would like to do lots of different things. I would love to play someone completely different from myself in a costume drama.

I'm an actor in that I just want to create roles and characters and play parts that people remember and like or dislike or hate.