Rajkummar Rao Quotes

As an actress, you have to give your character a life, a history, and make it full and rich for yourself.

Acting is the ability to dream on cue.

Acting is an imaginative leap, really, isn't it? And imaginations prosper in different circumstances.

For me and for I'm sure any actor, each role is a different challenge to prepare for in a different way.

I know what I love about acting - and it's the creative process.

My favorite characters that I've gotten to do are the ones that surprised me the most.

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.'

I love the creating part of taking on a character. It is fun to be another person and create what it would be like to be that person.

In terms of the character itself, I can't really say that I find anything really difficult. I enjoy the character so much I don't perceive difficulty in trying to be him. It's just a matter of how do we get there.

I just love to be able to actually build a character.

Sometimes I think of movie acting as advanced pretend.

Having done a lot of theater, I'm used to sustaining characters over long periods of time.

I like to build a character, trying to stretch my imagination as far to the walls of my brain as I can to come up with something that feels truthful and feels real - as close to the skin as I can get it.

It is definitely a challenge to play Nathan, but the more different he is from myself, the more interesting the character becomes for me.

I love the feeling I get when I'm on a set; I love reading the scripts, playing the characters, getting to be someone else.

If you can sell that you're the King of Scotland, or Henry V on a tiny stage in a studio theater somewhere, then you can probably sell that you're a starship captain or a time traveler.

As an actor, it's amazing to get to create different characters.

When I do film, I really take on roles and I take on characters.

I'm so into playing different characters, even when I was on Nickelodeon. I just observe.

What I love to do requires portraying different characters, and you have to separate your life from the role.

The one thing I learned the most about acting is it takes a tremendous amount of courage to go there and stand still. It takes courage and guts to step out of your mind frame and depict something.

It's wonderful when you can play a character that pulls all sorts of strings inside of you and fills you emotionally.

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

As an actor, all you have is what you know and what you see in other people. The more you know, and the more you've experienced, the more you're able to communicate to other people.

I love creating characters that people may or may have not ever seen before. But I enjoy the opportunity to try to make something new, and that's when I really come alive as an actor, so I really enjoyed working on 'Arrow.'