Sonu Sood Quotes

It's a great challenge to get to play a real-life character. Every actor would love to get a chance, at least once in his life, to play a real-life character.

The joy of acting for me is to be able to experience emotions in a safe environment. You can't scream and cry in the street because everybody will look. If you do it on a movie set, you get applauded.

To me, part of the fascinating profession of acting is to participate in all these strange situations, to try to understand all these interesting characters, fictitious or real, their human nature... It's extraordinarily fascinating.

I have actual acting scars.

I love acting. When I'm acting I feel like I'm on vacation. I'm just having a wonderful time. The nightmare is just getting the work to happen.

I've played parts that were just likable people, and there's a certain pleasure in that. And that's that.

I actually think actors both are drawn to playing real-life historical people and are terrified.

Doing theater makes you feel like a real actor.

I know I'm an opera singer, but we're actors, too.

It's always a pleasant experience while acting because I like to surprise myself and the audience with what I do.

As an actor, you always have to love who you are playing.

Sometimes directors come to me when I have to play some horrible thing, scary or hysterical or crying; they ask, 'Did you study somewhere to be an actress?' No, this is life. That's why I think I don't want to say you need a really bad experience to be a good artist, but bad experiences in your life say something.

Any skill requires training. I took the corporate approach to acting and wanted to develop the necessary skills.

There's something very fine and lucid and rich in this tradition of the English actor.

As an actor, I like my films to be believable.

I was inspired to become an actor from theater I'd seen, so I assumed I'd do a lot of theater. But when I left Guidhall, the first thing I did was a short film - I played the main character. And I loved it. I love working on camera. I love the smallness of it and the detail and the routine of it.

I'm an artist - I'm an actor - so when I'm looking for something, I'm looking for stories.

The skill of a gifted actor, their ability to interpret and develop a character and truly bring her or him to life, is one that I admire enormously.

Acting is a career where you keep learning with every film you do.

It's a great experience as an actor to just work loads all the time. Constantly getting through material.

I think acting is boring because you have to sit for a long time. And being a director I am used to running around and being busy on sets. I lack the actor software.

I am definitely of the method-acting school. Everything to me is about sound. I don't dress up in period costumes or anything like that. I'm very aural. When I'm working, I try to soak up the sounds of an era.

Crying does not equal good acting.

I am just an actor, and this is my job. What I am doing is not extraordinary.

In feature films, I used to be the hero's friend, a regular character. In short films, I played the hero; I got roles where I could work on my character and performance. They made me aware of myself as an actor.