Armaan Malik Quotes

Part of an actor's job is to find correlations between your own life and the life of the person you are playing.

I love acting it's apart of me and I try to put a little bit of myself in each of my roles.

I love acting and really taking on another person, another life.

As a filmmaker I find it much more rewarding to work with actors who are classically trained. It's about the work and only the work.

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

I think if you work as an actress and are supposed as a character to be in love with some actor, then to some extent you do have to be in love with him.

As an actor, you are aware of how a role can seep into your real life.

Film acting has been a very pure experience, because you have to give the purest form of yourself as an artist.

Like any other actor, I draw on life experience.

A lot of people think I'm that guy in 'Betsy's Wedding', but I'm not. What it is for me is that, on some level, I connect with the character emotionally.

I don't like to intellectualize about my acting.

What I learned about acting is that you become the character, like I became 'Timothy Green.'

As an actor, I have to be fulfilled in the roles that I play; it has to be a journey for me to learn something or involve myself.

Part of an actor's job is to draw up a back story.

Obviously an actor draws on his own experience.

How do I act so well? What I do is I pretend to be the person I'm portraying in the film or play.

The trick to acting is not to show off, it's to think the thoughts of the character.

Actually, you have to be a little bit in love with your leading man and vice versa. If you're going to portray love, you have to feel it. You can't do it any other way. But you don't carry it beyond the set.

I don't personally look to my own life experiences for answers about how to play a scene.

I have to believe in the character to perform it.

As actors, we often look for the scene, big moments that say, 'This is why you have to do this role.'

I've never been that comfortable with the acting thing. It's difficult for me to separate what's really going on. If there's kissing, that's kissing. I'm not acting; I don't know how.

I am trained in theatre, and so I take time to study and get into the skin of a character.

Playing a real-life character, as an actor, gives me real high because there is so much of research material available in front of you.

As an actor, you always want to find a piece of who you are in every role you take on.