Deepika Padukone Quotes

I've played several real characters, and I've always found it very difficult because you don't want to do an impersonation.

That's what acting is. You're pretending to be someone else.

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

I take my time to get into the mindset of the character and say my lines. I really have to be the person that I am playing.

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

If I were to play somebody who ran a fish and chip shop, I would not work in a fish and chip shop for three months. Staring at chips is not going to help me in my performance.

As actors, you play people who are not yourselves!

Once you are in the character, you should let your inner actor take over you.

I think that acting involves doing your job so well that you are able to help the viewer identify with the character.

I'm the sort of actor who likes to talk about what we're going to do.

An actor is an impersonator; he plays many different roles. If you played the same role all the time, God - that'd be a boring career. When you take on different roles and become a different person, that's called acting... It's a challenge.

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

The thing about being an actor is that you're acting. It's not that big of a deal of to play someone different from yourself.

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.

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.

Usually most characters I play are quite realistic.

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.

When you drop your guard in films, the acting process compensates. You get lazy and you start acting.

They did cast me as an ingenue once, and the novelty was nice. But I said, 'There is nothing here to play!' I really like getting into the meat of a role.

On the stage you develop a character that's different from yourself. In a film they're always saying, 'Walk over here. Say this line. Be you.'

What I find most interesting about acting is transforming myself.

There's no one more willing to do something than an actor when it comes to perfecting a scene.

As much as I know people love the method and what you can draw out of yourself, a lot of acting is very imaginative.

Acting is not a mystery. There's nothing that I know that other actors don't know. We all act, we're all actors, we all know the same thing. The only thing that separates us is experience.

You draw on whatever's relevant to the part you're playing; it makes it more personal.