Neeraj Kabi Quotes

I find it easier to play someone who is so far from me because you create someone - you build this person based on the story and the script, with the director.

I don't categorize characters into one syllable. These are fully-rounded characters that I don't judge; I just play them.

As an actor, I've always found that my job is not to judge the content in which I've agreed to perform in. What I try to do is just find the truth in every moment that they've written.

As an actor, what you dream of is being able to portray people that people empathize with and understand and really feel for.

As an actor, you are always someone else's tool. You can have a connection with them, and you can share their point of view, but ultimately, you are helping them reflect.

The actor is there to translate what's on the page onto the stage or the screen. So I find it important that an actor manages to actually get out of the way, vanish as a person behind the character, never to be seen or talked about again. That's my philosophy.

I love playing complex characters.

My job as an actor is to just tell the story as best I can from my character's point of view and let the audience decide.

Real acting is about giving people an insight into a person, letting the audience in.

It's down to the actors to show the writers the potential of the character.

That's what frees up an actor: when you don't have to be responsible to likability.

I don't really have choices in the material I get. So I have to make the choices in the way I play the characters.

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 feel my job as an actor is to explore all sides of humanity.

As an actor, I'm constantly striving to find the darkness in the lighter characters and the lightness in the darker characters.

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

As actors, you do have to be aware of your audience. You can't act in a vacuum, even if that audience isn't exactly present with you.

That's what I love about acting, is playing different roles. I want to work for the character, and not make it work for me.

Disney acting is a little more difficult than many people think it is. People feel like the characters aren't deep, but as an actor, you try to do everything you can do the best of your ability.

Actors make choices for different reasons.

It's kind of up to the actor to deconstruct the scene and deconstruct the character and figure out how to make it real. That's what I love about this job: It's sort of a puzzle each time, and figuring that out is sort the key, whether I'm playing a cop or a killer.

There are always practical decisions to be made about any character you're playing.

If I'm doing my job as an actor, the audience knows everything I know about the character.

When you're performing, you're playing to the back row. With acting, you have to be more nuanced.

Every role is challenging in its own way, but the most challenging roles are the ones that are badly written - then it's completely up to you to come up with something that is interesting to the story and myself as an actor.