Kay Kay Menon Quotes

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

I think the most important thing for an actor is reading the script and trying to figure out if you can play that character well. The last thing on my mind is if the director made good movies previously. It's not my job to know if that director's last movie was any good - it's my job to know if I can play the role.

The way I choose parts is I look at the scripts... I choose a part by whether or not it challenges me.

It doesn't matter if you're doing a studio movie or you're doing an independent movie. When you get to set and you're doing a scene, it's always going to be the same job. I really don't think about my career, in terms of planning it out and what this does for me.

I take a script and mull over it and underline the bits I want to emphasize. When I go to the set, I know exactly what I want to do.

Working with actors is something I've never done before. I find it tremendous. It's hard work.

Most of the film directors expect their actors to want to work fast.

As an actor, it's amazing to get to create different characters.

As an actor, all you want to do is to work and do good work.

I never really do much research before signing a film. It is just the script and character that I concentrate on.

As an actor, you pay attention very closely to everything that happens to you, and you're constantly watching others as well, trying to just find out where everything comes from.

As an actor, you can't think about the end result or the fame; you just have to focus on the day you're in. You have no control over the finished product, what people will think of it, so all you have is the experience of making it, and you have to stay focused on that.

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

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.

I'll read a script maybe twice, but I'll think about the role more than I'll rehearse lines.

I know what I love about acting - and it's the creative process.

When I'm offered a role, I look at what I think I can do with it. I look to see if I can project myself into it.

I miss working with great actors, working with great directors.

The rehearsal time is almost my favourite part of being an actress, particularly if you're working on a play that hasn't been done before.

I love to do very long and complicated scenes.

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.

I think when you take away all, like, the premieres and press stuff and all the special effects, then you just come down to the fact that it's all about acting, and I think that has been the best bit for me.

What happens so often as an actor is that you retain the information about the scenes that you yourself shot and you obsess over certain scenes that you found the most challenging or interesting. The rest of the film kind of falls away in your memory or it fades a little bit.

Most actors go, 'I read the script and fell in love with it'; I fall in love with the directors.

I think every actor would probably say that it's always a collaboration. And if you ask directors, they'll tell you that they expect the actors to bring something. They don't want to be thinking for everybody.