Sai Pallavi Quotes

You try not to become so emotionally attached to your character, but you do.

I always fall in love with every character I play.

You have to be involved and relate to the characters in order to make a film that is true emotionally.

I get very involved in my characters. Sometimes I have a very hard time separating my characters from my life.

I always find something in all the characters I play. I fall in love with them a little bit.

Only twice have I really had a hard time leaving a character. The first was my character in 'Rome' and then in 'Homeland.'

At the end of the day, if you don't identify with the main characters, no television show will work.

I have no idea. I get involved because I think there's value in the project and because I love the character that is presented to me. I love the opportunity to examine a character, and to have him examine me, live inside me and move my hands. I love that. It's irresistible. It's a drug.

I'd never played a character as long as I played Poussey. Spending time with her, so much time embodying that character, it was so - and still is and always will be - so special to me and a part of who I am.

When I did the pilot, Mort was very real to me. When I got through with the ten weeks, Maura is even more real to me.

You always hope that people will fall in love with the characters you play, the way you do yourself.

A lot of actors like saying, 'Don't judge a character; you might fall in love with him!' Not me.

I think people are getting into these 'Empire' songs because of the emotional investment they have in the characters. You kind of feel like you know the songs already because you just watched them play out in front of you with these characters.

I like to jump into different worlds. I'm attracted to the emotional rollercoaster of acting. Now I've been doing it for so many years, I must rather enjoy it.

It's difficult to just let go of a character. Especially after you've been preparing and researching for weeks.

I wasn't thinking that I was two horrors back to back; I was thinking these were characters that I want to play.

Certain characters get to me and stay with me for a while.

One of the things that happens when you write characters - and maybe this is my own sentimentality - is that I always find I have an instinct to protect them.

Once I've properly finished a book, my ideal state of being would be to never think about it again. But with 'Capital,' I felt I'd spent so much time with the characters that they were very, very real, and I definitely had a sense of loss about leaving them behind in a way I've not quite had before.

I'm focused on finding characters I connect to.

I had no idea what 'Life is Strange' was going to be when I auditioned. I had no idea what 'Horizon' was going to be when I auditioned.

When I read a script, the important thing is that I can connect in some way with that character and have some idea from what his story is that I can tell that story too, because that's all acting is, is storytelling.

I feel I have been playing all primary characters. And if your character forms a connect with the audience, it doesn't matter if you are playing only the main solo lead or a second lead.

I can't really iterate what I look for in a script. It's a very subjective thing. Like an organic attachment you have with the script and characters.

I find it very funny as well as touching that people associate me with these characters I play and form a connect with them.