Omari Hardwick Quotes

The fact that I like to make characters doesn't mean that I like to watch my characters being made, my performance.

All children are natural actors, and I'm still a kid. If you grow up completely, you can never be an actor.

For me, personality acting is not that interesting. I don't want to just be myself.

Every once in a while I play a true idiot, and they're really fun to play.

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

A lot of actors like saying, 'Don't judge a character; you might fall in love with him!' Not me.

Instantly when I'm acting, I kick into Frank Agnew face.

Any decent actor knows you can't judge the character you're playing.

I don't prepare myself for any character unless it is really different.

I used to think the actor's job was immersing himself completely in another personality.

I sort of approach wrestling the way Johnny Depp approaches movies. I don't really care necessarily what I'm portraying.

I really want to act and act in great roles, which have scope of performance.

Acting is technically just lying, so I guess I've been acting since I was about 7.

I feel that when it comes to acting, Shahid and I approach roles differently.

I am lucky to have got the character of Twinkle to make my debut. I not only learnt so much playing the role, but it also gave me popularity.

The actor's job is to put themselves in the shoes of the character they are trying to portray as truthfully as possible.

Acting-wise, I'm way more comfortable finding out new things about the actor in me and RJ as a person. There's a lot of new nuggets that I can dip in the sauce.

I think as an actor, you have to make yourself vulnerable to emotions.

When you watch me on the screen, you should not be able to recognise me. If people say, you're a natural and an organic actor, that's an insult. If you're being yourself all the time on screen, that means you don't know how to act.

You normally either get bitten by a character and decide that is the way to play it, and then that begins to inform everything you do, or you decide, 'I don't need to use much character in this - I have basically got to be me'.

I studied method acting for four years and I'm a big believer in the idea that it's not about the actual experience itself. You don't have to go through exactly what this character has gone through.

I am not into method acting.

Every actor has a method.

It requires a huge amount of intelligence to be an actor.

I found myself sort of becoming a character actor, though I don't know if that would be my natural makeup.