Aamir Khan Quotes

Being an actor myself I realize that all actors believe they are qualified to play any role. If you showed me a script with a black woman character I would tell you that I could do it. That is what we do. We act as if we are someone else.

I am a professional actor, and I don't go about moralizing about what the character does. Otherwise, seriously, why be an actor? You're not making some kind of social statement. That's not what actors do.

I don't choose characters according to looks. I'm comfortable doing both glamorous and non-glamorous roles.

And as much as I love the gritty characters, I like to play all sorts of characters. I'm an actor. I love to create.

When you get to set, you don't try to play the plot; you just play the character.

Actresses cannot have any inhibitions while portraying bold characters. It is something that we learn on the first page of the book on acting.

I need to react to a script, to feel strongly about it in some way. And I need it to be a complex character for sure. And also, I think a lot about what kind of audience there is for the film, what they're looking for and ways to connect with them in the playing of a character.

I think that different actors go about their preparation differently, but when it comes to acting, I use my imagination.

Creating a character and living truthfully through her is a whole different ball game. It's all part of the same person but it's a much newer medium for me.

I've had some marvelous parts, but I'm also asked to play characters who are kind of superficial people.

To be an actor, a true actor, you have to be brokenhearted.

I don't mind being identified as any character as long as I'm doing a good job as an actor. I have done all kinds of roles - from an editor, judge, police officer, murderer to a corrupt businessman.

The actors I admire are character actors.

I love playing characters, so I'm always telling my agents, 'Don't worry if the character description is something you think I'm not. Let me try to be that person.'

Did Anthony Hopkins really have to be a serial killer to be in 'Silence of the Lambs?,' I don't think so, no. It's called acting, people.

In the work that I normally do, you have a whole script, a whole arc, that you play. And I do believe a good actor will play every bit of information they're given.

So I regard my part in Genevieve as a real challenge.

I can inhabit any character in a way that is difficult to do successfully in a contemporary novel.

You have to find out how to become the character.

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

Most of the time, actors respond to the thing that's so far from who they are. We all want to play the serial killer and the ex-con.

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

In 'Law & Order,' your main job is to stay out of the way of the plot. On another show you'd receive your script and see stuff that seems challenging and feel excited that the writers thought highly enough of you to write it for you.

As actors, you play people who are not yourselves!

I was the last one to screen test for The Hardy Boys. I'd like to play that's not as clean-cut as Frank Hardy. I play him as straight as possible.