Rajkummar Rao Quotes

I think I've always been ambitious. It just looks different on me. You know, I have friends who are actresses who go to every party they possibly can to be photographed and really try to make every connection they can, and I admire that and sometimes I wish I had a little bit more of that. Sometimes I feel like I don't have enough ambition.

I would say it wasn't until my fourth season on 'SNL' where people or my agent was saying, 'You're an actor.' I never thought of it that way.

Starting out, they told me: 'You're a good-looking guy. We'll put you in this role, and you can be a conduit for the audience into this side of the story.' But I've grown up, and that's not what I want anymore. My concept of the job I do has evolved. And it is a job, nothing more.

I've definitely grown up, but I'm the same Sadie now that I would have been, even if I wasn't on 'Stranger Things.'

I was an innocent Delhi girl, which is good for an actress, but worked against me when I shifted to Mumbai.

I walk into a restaurant in Westwood now, and people know it's Reggie Miller. I used to be always Cheryl's little brother.

As time has gone by, I have looked more and more like Paul Revere than the alarmist my critics have sought to portray.

Once you do something that people respond to, they understandably think of you in that way, and you want to work and it's fun and it's wonderful. I think a lot of people in all different fields find themselves in a moment of repeating certain beats. There's also a moment that is personally related to age as well - in whatever field you're in, you say, "Wait a minute, where am I and how did I get here? How has this changed from my original intent and what do I want to do about that now?" That's part of the process.

Before High School Musical, I wanted to be a nitty-gritty actress. And High School Musical came along, and, I was like, "Oh my God, fun!" But the more we did it, the more prude I became.... When I am around kids and they come up to me, of course I am going to act a certain way, but at the end of the day, I'm doing this for myself. I'm going to be doing movies kids can't watch.

I'm sure that having acted like an asshole for a great deal of my life, then having played assholes for a good part of my life, created a perception that I'm an asshole.

I've always tried to be the same person I was before I won Wimbledon, but it has been very difficult.

For a long time, I was just a football player, but I want people to see me for who I am.

I'll always be an Essex girl at heart but I've matured and I've evolved and with my work I'm in the West End all the time.

I look completely different from how I did in 'Sinbad,' and it's nice to be myself.

I don't discuss my journey in the Hindi film industry since it is something personal to me.

I never want to change. I get nervous about that... people thinking that I've changed just because the circumstances of my life have.

I do feel like I've changed a great deal, but not anything outside of the norm of what most people experience as they grow and they take on the responsibilities of parenthood and being more engaged in their business and all that stuff. I think it's a pretty natural evolution.

The hardest thing to have is success, because it seems to tell people what you are. But it doesn't.

I was fortunate to work with the biggest names of the industry; I would like to continue this journey of discovering myself as an actor and keep experimenting.

Nobody ever thought of me as dumb. They always knew me as cerebral, a thinking person. Educated and so on. But I was always given glamorous roles.

I just don't want to be known as the face for cancer. It is one part of my life. Yes, it was a major part because it changed me a lot, but that is not all my life.

India has introduced me to my ultimate passion - acting. I don't plan to give it up, and I intend to stay here for a long, long time.

It took me a while to figure out what kind of work I needed to do. I worked with directors like Aparna Sen and Rituparno Ghosh. I wanted to do interesting roles.

Throughout my career, I wouldn't say my roles have been based on my being considered eye candy.

You know how certain actors find their niches? Eventually, I'll be there as well. I just haven't found that yet. I'm just enjoying the ride.