Vijay Sethupathi Quotes

I will do stories which most of the audiences like.

Acting and singing are actually very similar because they're both telling a story.

At the end of the day, it is just a movie, and we should remember that we're doing it for the audience, and we should have fun doing it. If we have fun doing it, it will come across on the screen.

I would definitely like to continue playing Aquaman. Playing a superhero is a lot of fun. Creating these stories is a lot of fun. I do what I love. And what I love is entertaining people.

I know one thing - if I didn't have TV and theatre and radio, the world would be a much more boring place.

I'm motivated by entertaining people.

As an actor, that's the best thing you can do, really take people along on a story and tell them something.

No matter how big the audience is going to be. I'm interested in doing things that are fun.

Audience members are only concerned about the story, the concept, the bells and whistles and the noise that a popular film starts to make even before it's popular. So audiences will not be drawn to the technology; they'll be drawn to the story. And I hope it always remains that way.

With Twitter, you just want to make people laugh in their meeting; on stage, people have paid for their tickets with their hard-earned money, so I owe them the truth as I experience it.

I guess telling stories is an art. I never looked at it that way. I just started talking, and everyone started laughing. So I kept talking, and they kept laughing.

I believe that the story is the most important element of any medium whether it's theater, film, TV.

You either entertain an audience or you don't.

Film making is an expensive, as well as a serious business. We should be able to entertain our audiences, who are fully aware of what they want. Every filmmaker has a different point of view and presents facets of society.

When I get on stage, I try to win my pay: to please and that people leave satisfied... being seductive has given me good results.

Television is so neat; I grew up doing theater, and I've done a bit of film. I know I'm stating the obvious, but it's a unique storytelling form in that it's able to constantly evolve.

Acting, music, comedy are all just delivery systems to communicate ideas and stories.

I love telling stories, I love entertaining, and I love my job.

I love wrestling, and I love telling a story to the audience.

It takes two guys to tell a story, paint a picture, so our audience can be entertained and brought into the match. You need to suck people in emotionally to a match, and it takes both parties to paint that picture.

I never made a clear-cut in my mind between theatre and film, as I always felt that at the heart of both of them is storytelling and acting.

You see, when I go on stage I perform with just a guitar and you have to have very strong material to hold an audience from getting bored or restless. One strong way of doing that is the story because everybody will listen to a story.

A pleased audience member is a pleased audience member, whether they're in New York or Mumbai.

Sometimes I start off shows by explaining to people that it's just a bunch of stories - I always say 'It's like standup, just less funny.'

I tell stories and try to do it honestly so that people are interested and enjoy them.