Nushrat Bharucha Quotes

As an actor, you think you know your craft, you know the conflicts in your character, but often you don't.

As an actor, you're constantly looking to be pushed.

I learned a tremendous amount about dialogue because I suffered as an actor.

People think memorizing lines is hard, when that's the last thing you worry about. You get that done, and then you've got to worry about the internal stuff, which is the challenging part.

What's beautiful about the actual acting class environment is that you can use it to push through everything: push your voice, push your inhibitions, push your fears, push your confidence, push your vulnerability, push your silences.

Sometimes I feel like my normal approach to roles has been, 'I want to be more complex, dynamic.'

Film acting is really the trick of doing moments. You rarely do a take that lasts more than 20 seconds. You really earn your spurs acting onstage. I needed to do that for myself. I would hate to say at the end of everything that I never did a stage play.

I do not use any set methods, not even The Method. The character after all is in the lines.

As an actor, I've grown considerably. It's taken me years to get comfortable doing a romantic scene and dancing on stage in front of a live audience. I've really opened up a lot.

Usually I'm frustrated when I look at my films and I don't believe that I've made a real transformation beyond my usual sets of gestures and expressions. I still have this nagging feeling that it's me, that I didn't create a unique character.

I have just gained a deeper and deeper respect for acting and the whole art of it because you're really trying to live a life and to do the best justification for it.

You know, I've never been much of a method actor. I feel like, with every project I go in extremely prepared and I like to have a good time.

One of my main techniques for acting is I try to know almost nothing beyond the words that I have to say, because that's my zone of control.

I don't really prepare for each role the same way.

A lot of what acting is paying attention.

Most of my training at graduate school was geared towards drama, so I feel good about it, and I can do it, but it requires a lot more work from me. I feel like with drama... well, with all acting, really, you need to honor the truth of the situation.

I'd love to play more challenging roles, characters that would stretch my comfort zone and imagination.

Even though I was theatrically trained, learning to develop a character was an awesome experience.

Every role sort of teaches you how to prepare for it.

I think I approach everything as an actor first. I'd rather walk onto a set and just act and just worry about that.

My first two or three films, all I was trying to do was look cool. That's all I knew acting was.

I think sometimes you can think up a story, but it's because you're comfortable doing that, but when you're an actor, one of the things that you have to do is take yourself out of your comfort zone.

I've been to acting coaches and everything, but they had to open me up and all that, so now I'm getting better with it.

As an actor, I'm more interested in characters the longer I have lived with them.

I had never really acted before, so I really didn't know what I was doing. The casting director for 'Euphoria' set me up with an acting coach in New York, and he completely flipped my world around. The way you learn to utilize your brain and your emotions really freaked me out.