Ishaan Khatter Quotes

I'm an actor. And it is, for me, an opportunity to meet people. One of the advantages of my profession is I come into contact with many people.

What's nice about acting is that you're not just left with yourself all the time, but you get to see the world through so many different people's eyes.

That's the wonderful thing about acting - you play a role. It's about humanity, rather than labeling.

That's why I enjoy acting: getting in the mind of someone else.

Nobody should expect an actor to have these wonderful ideas and concepts about the world: they pretend to be other people for a living.

For a writer, they say write what you know. As a performer, you find it in yourself, in your heart. You relate to the character. You try to live it, try to have it be real for you.

One of the reasons I love acting is because I'm so interested in other people's lives, and I often incorporate things I hear or observe into my work. I've become a bit of a 'person addict,' and so I like brushing up against lots of different characters.

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 think that's why I'm an actor: so I can tell those stories without having to really live through those stories with real consequences and real stakes, real responsibility.

You know, it's recently come into focus for me why I want to be an actor: It's because of the connection I feel to people.

The good thing about being an actor, and the gift of being an actor, is that you are beautifully forced to see the world with different eyes.

Acting allows me to explore new worlds, to discover characters by delving into their lives, and ultimately to become someone else entirely.

I think I'm an actor because I have very strong imagination and empathy. I never studied acting, but those two qualities are exactly the qualities that make for an activist.

Acting, to me, is about the incredible adventure of examining the landscape of human heart and soul. That's basically what we do.

Trying to be a good actor has to be involved with placing yourself imaginatively in different people's circumstances.

I care about actors, and I understand them in a very personal way. I'm not saying every writer has to do that, but in my case, it's been helpful. I can put myself into the scene and think, 'What would it be like to act this?' Any writer who's really good probably does that to some extent.

Film is this incredible medium that allows us to feel empathy for people that are very different than us and worlds completely foreign from our own.

I've always wanted to perform and act my whole life and to understand people more, so that's the only reason I've got to work with the people I've worked with.

I've been doing this since I was 10 years old, inhabiting different people and playing different roles.

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

I think acting is a fun thing because you get to have so many lifetimes in one lifetime, being all these different people.

One of the nice things about acting is that it allows you to open up to the other people within you.

I don't have an exact moment when I decided I wanted to be an actress - it kind of was just really a part of my growing up.

The reason you want to act is to continue to explore every different part of the human psyche.

The whole point of being an actor is to get satisfaction out of a role - unless you're just vain about celebrity. You're always looking for the one thing that will surprise you.