Convincing portrayal Quotes

Everybody knows Sai Baba. Being an actor, I had to be extremely convincing while portraying the role.

It turns out that good actors can make anything believable.

I enjoy roles that involve a task outside of my natural capabilities - for example, playing a number of musical instruments or sword fighting or cutting a suit. You have to look as though you can do it, without too much editing.

In really good acting we should be able to believe that what we hear and see is of our own imagining; it should seem to be to us as a charming dream.

Jude [Law] is really good at playing an obsessive. He has a very watchable quality when he's on a quest for something.

The difference between Martin Sheen and George W. Bush is Martin Sheen is actually convincing when he acts like he's president.

The thing I was up against in documentary films - was trying to get non-actors to convincingly play themselves in a way I'd come to know before the camera started rolling. And many non-actors can't do that convincingly, even if they just have to play themselves - they can't be naturalistic. And I would always want to recreate something I'd witnessed them do or say, and it just would be incredibly difficult because of the fact they weren't actors.

I can't dance like Hrithik Roshan. I don't have the necessary glamour like some of the other actors do. They are able to sell themselves on that aspect. I do roles and films which are very realistic. So, in those films, if you don't get into the skin of it, they won't look convincing.

My job is to try and present the most fully-rounded character that I can, and bring a performance that people believe in.

I don't approach a role by saying I'll be unsavory or unlikable. I think all the roles I've done have been very passionate people who go to absolute extremes to make their points.

Acting is all about being truthful. I'm really bad at lying. I'm one of the worst liars I know.

In Mahesh Manjrekar's films, women find their way into a realistic story in the most convincing way.