Kay Kay Menon Quotes

As an actor, the only thing you have is your instinct and your imagination.

I love an acting challenge, and I love getting to sit down with my script and do all my drama work.

I think acting really helps as a director. It's just no question, because you totally understand the acting process.

Of course, I love chats with various actors about the process and how they do it. To me, if it's not on the camera, if it's not there, it's not worth it. It really just isn't worth it.

One of the exciting and enjoyable aspects of acting is being in the environment with another actor.

All actors bring something unexpected to the role because they have to translate what's on the page and make a real character out of the black-and-white text that's there in the script.

As an actor, I'm ambivalent because I'm focused on the other person and what they're giving me, what I need to be giving them, and what the character is thinking.

Acting has always been very comfortable for me, so it allows me to pay attention to other parts of the process literally while I'm acting.

An actor will use every piece of information at their disposal, or a good actor will.

I'm the sort of actor who likes to talk about what we're going to do.

The more and more I work with really great actors, the more it's about opening yourself up to what they bring.

Everything, I think, about acting is based on imagination.

My approach to acting is that I am totally intuitive. I read the script and I get it. If I don't get it, I can't do it.

In acting process, it's very difficult to explain. It's something very intimate, very private.

Actors usually respond to minor aspects of their own character or things that even feel disparate from themselves.

So what's so enticing about doing a play is that you get to do that thing that got you into acting in the first place... There's a real attraction to being able to play, to just play. And that's something that theater affords you.

Writing and directing might be a red herring, and really I'm just re-examining what it is to act, to do it well and do it properly.

To be able to work with actors who are doing such good work, not only makes it easier for you, but it makes you better.

Obviously an actor draws on his own experience.

I love acting. It's an interesting challenge to make something that doesn't exist appear like it's happening, and to do it in a real way.

As much as I know people love the method and what you can draw out of yourself, a lot of acting is very imaginative.

I'm a task-oriented actor. A pretender. And I try to invent my process anew each time I make a new project. So I frown on any method.

I live in the energy and rhythm of the character. To some degree, that's true of every actor I've worked with.

It's a hard thing to do, to be given a script, and know that you've got to turn up on the first day of the shoot - generally without having had any rehearsal - and present a character. It's really baffling; it's incredibly hard to know how to begin, to approach it, other than just thinking about it.

In theater acting, you leave that night and what it was is what it was.