Karthi Quotes

I like the idea of acting. Of all these things I've done, sometimes I think I've done well, and sometimes I think I didn't do well, but they are more cameos, and I come in and be crazy.

I use my hands a lot while acting.

Crying does not equal good acting.

The worst acting is about imitation.

It's fun to play the character and then watch him later.

When actors are talking, they are servants of the dramatist. It is what they can show the audience when they are not talking that reveals the fine actor.

For me really good acting is about subtext.

It's what I learn from the great actors that I work with. Stillness. That's all and that's the hardest thing.

I treat any scene the same - dialogue, action - you're still creating something in character. It's all acting, fighting.

I don't know what acting is, but I enjoy it.

Actors have to make you believe that it's happening for the first time and all that jazz and make it human and at the same time entertain you.

I love the art of acting, and I love film, because you always have anther chance if you want it. You know, if we - if this isn't going well, you can't say - well, you could say - let's stop. Let's start over again, Gene, because you were too nervous.

I never do anything for the camera. It's my job to pretend the camera's not there. I'm never moving for the camera.

I think there is no better training than being onstage because here's the thing: the theater requires you to act with your whole body. I think acting with your whole body gives you a root, and you can build from there.

If you've had intimacy in your life, you can be intimate onscreen. I mean, come on - I didn't know how to hold a gun, but I could play a cop.

As an actor, my body is my tool to flesh out the roles I play.

I'm good at observing people, physical stuff, which leant itself to acting.

I had done acting at school, and it felt like something that came very naturally to me.

Actors don't hate acting. Most people don't hate acting! Whether you're a child mucking around with your friends or a grown up being paid to be on a set, pretending to be other people is fun.

The work of acting, in and of itself, is something that is infinitely enjoyable.

I was always under the impression that acting is an innate gift. One of the first things I heard them say at Koothu-P-Pattarai was that actors should realise the art of acting through their training.

I believe an actor should be shameless.

Fine-tuning a play like 'Uncle Vanya,' which is already well-known to the people playing it, is not so much a verbal exercise as it is a visceral one.

Acting is the ability to dream on cue.

There is only so much you can do if you're pulling weight and there's nobody there to play off of. You can't have those beautiful moments with new actors who are so worried about everything else but the moment.