Acting Immersion Quotes

My nursery school did a production of 'The Three Little Pigs.' I played the third pig. When the wolf knocked on my door, I refused to get up and answer it because, to me, he was knocking the wrong way. I just lay there, snoring away on stage, fully immersed in my character. My dad turned to my mom and said: 'Dustin Hoffman.'

Rehearsing a scene beds a role into you. But sometimes, if you over-rehearse it without unearthing any new meaning in it, you can suddenly forget your lines. You realise that you are on a stage, not in the real world. The scene's emotional power, and your immersion in it, disappears.

When you are on set, you are not your best judge because it is hard to step back when you are into the character.

In TV, sometimes you get lost in the fog of the scene, and when you're working with such good actors, they can bring you into the scene.

I find you can lose yourself in an acting sense in a fight far more easily than you can in a dialogue scene, and I love that about it. We try as actors all the time: we strive just to completely sort of lose ourselves in the moment, and we never quite get there, but in a fight, you can do it in seconds; that is what I love about it.

The beauty of acting is you just get lost in it. You play the character, and you hope that it works.

Part of being an actor is being susceptible to imaginary circumstances, so as soon as I'm on the set I feel like I'm actually there.

It's not a pleasure torturing actors, although some of them enjoy it.

When you're acting, everything is there around you, you just have to believe that it's real. When you're standing there with a slightly grey wig on and you have a baby in your arms screaming in your ear, you can go: "Well, I guess this is what it's like!"

Sometimes you become friends with the characters you portray.

I've played many characters that have consumed me and owned me.

Any time you make a movie where you're living in a certain head space for an extended period of time, it's tough not to take a little piece home with you.

Actors like Daniel Day-Lewis, Gary Oldman, they totally immerse themselves in their parts.

One of the things I love most about acting is just disappearing in the role, as much as I can. I think that's one of the things that intrigued me about it.

When your show is set in the city, and the city is sort of a character on the show, it helps you as an actor to absorb. It gives it more authenticity.

I am not of the vein of actors - and I will not pretend to be one - that takes my character home with me. I don't.

The thing I like about acting is being able to lose yourself completely in someone else.

When you get a role, you completely lose yourself in it. That's one of the great things about acting - letting yourself go.

When I finished 'Cocktail,' it took me a very long time to get out of Veronica's mindspace, behaviour, and zone. I had to reconnect with who I am. It is a similar story with 'Bajirao Mastani.' Some films demand that.

I like to disappear in the parts I play.

I tend to - every time I step onto the set until the time I go back to the hotel, I just try to be in character all the time.