Rajiv Menon Quotes

I love acting and really taking on another person, another life.

I think of myself as an actor. The duty of an actor is to be able to impersonate anything - a child, an old man, a tree, a chair, a woman.

I wouldn't be the same actor if I couldn't do theater.

People take years learning how to act; it's a skill, not just a job. If I tried it out and thought I'd be OK, then perhaps I'd go for it, but it's not the kind of thing you can get into just because of your looks.

I think I'm not a natural performer; I think I'm an actor.

I really consider acting a high art.

I've always been an actor. I've always approached all my comedy as an actor.

I want to be an artist... an actor who acts really well.

I love acting. It's the one job I know of where you can go in, go through complete catharsis - emotionally, physically sometimes and mentally - and at the end of the day say, 'See you in the pub, guys.'

The minute I start to talk about acting, I realize that I can't. You know, it's an abstract thing, a little bit mysterious even if you do it for a living.

I have learned that acting is not about beauty.

It's a strange thing we do as actors. I'm walking out the door, and I'll say, 'O.K., honey, I'm off to take my clothes off.'

I have this assemblage of small facts, which looks like intelligence but no real depth of knowledge about anything. That's why I'm an actor.

I just love acting. Being in theater or being in television or film, I'm really living out my destiny.

Sometimes I think of movie acting as advanced pretend.

I think of being an actor as kind of a young man's gig. It's emasculating, in a way, people messing with you and putting make-up on you and telling you when to wake up and when to go to sleep, holding your hand to cross the street. I can do it up to a certain point, and then I start to feel like a puppet.

An actor matures with experiences, and the more the emotions he/she has been through, the greater the intensity of performances.

I became disillusioned with dance when I was 16 and started focusing on acting.

I love theater work because of the immediate effect your performance has on the audience. And I love the repetition; I love getting on the same stage for more than a month and reciting the same lines, trying to make a small or large step towards an improvement in my acting.

There is probably some great acting that goes on in movies from people who have never been on a stage, but if you are in for the long haul, you'd be missing an enormous part of what being an actor is if you're not part of theater.

An actor should be able to create the universe in the palm of his hand.

An actor is supposed to be a sensitive instrument.

I'm just an actor. I am nothing special.

Modeling is a lot of fun, but I prefer acting. It's so much fun to get to play different characters and transform into someone else for a while.

I'll always be there because I'm a skilled professional actor. Whether or not I've any talent is beside the point.