Rajkummar Rao Quotes

The luxury of television is that you get more than one shot at who you think the guy is that you're playing.

I think I can speak with a degree of authority... today, the biggest driving force of movies is pace; God help you if you try to put in a scene that is about character and not plot.

I love acting, and ultimately all my characters are very different, and each character I love in a different way.

I think the buzz of acting is playing people different to you, and for me, that means traversing all genres.

There are always dimensions, and the way they get expressed is through the writing and the actors and the director you get to work with on that day. But there are always dimensions, outside of really basic stuff for very young people where it needs to be very clear.

When I was acting, I got trained in creating a character as a three-dimensional person. If you're doing it right you should be able to draw an audience into the character's world and make them feel their fears.

As an actor, what you dream of is being able to portray people that people empathize with and understand and really feel for.

I consume a lot of television and a lot of movies, and I love watching other actors work and am just very inspired by it.

The challenge is to stay true to the characters while also having them be entertaining every day, because it turns out that just watching someone be true to themselves isn't that rad to watch.

I don't see myself as an actor. I see myself as a storyteller.

I need to react to a script, to feel strongly about it in some way. And I need it to be a complex character for sure. And also, I think a lot about what kind of audience there is for the film, what they're looking for and ways to connect with them in the playing of a character.

Transformational acting was the reason why I became an actor in the first place. Your hair and make-up and the costume are the tools that you have, and it makes you feel like that person. When you look in the mirror, you don't feel like yourself, and it changes the way you move. I love that stuff.

Nobody should expect an actor to have these wonderful ideas and concepts about the world: they pretend to be other people for a living.

I shoot people in a way that makes the audience feel equal to them. And it's hard to express and it's hard to execute but I think it works on every level - the choice of the material the choice of the actor, my relationship with the actor, and so on.

I think there's an essential problem in movies and TV that I think a lot of people experience now: Audiences are way more interested in the actors than the characters that they're playing. It's a strange thing.

I put a lot of time and energy and thought behind what I do and the characters that I create, and I don't want to do anything peripheral that is going to make an audience see me up there on the screen rather than who I'm playing.

Actors love mental disorders, dialects, and corsets. Give them one of the three and they're happy.

I love doing theater so much - being in front of an audience and seeing how a character grows and develops with every performance.

I just love to be able to actually build a character.

I had to focus and create a character in Bagger Vance, not just do my 'Will Smith' thing and get paid.

I love it and it is a blessing to be able to have seventy-five to eighty episodes to develop a character and find your voice. You have a similar through voice, and yet you are making different decisions, and so you act differently and you make different choices, as that is what your character would do.

Good actors, you always know what they're thinking. That's why they're good actors.

Yeah, I think the common denominator - and this is probably going to sound like Acting 101 - but the common denominator is belief in the character in the moment.

I spend a lot of my time trying to draw the attention of actors to the minute and subtle details of human behavior, which was the sort of thing I was looking at when I was a neurologist.

There's no rule that we have to like the characters movies are about.