Kay Kay Menon Quotes

As an actor you get categorized by other people, but it's not like I arrange myself into comedy mode or serious mode. If it's good writing you just have to play it true - if it's funny, it's funny. But obviously you don't want it to be amusing if you're playing Hedda Gabler!

Good acting is all in the writing. If it isn't on the page, then it really won't make any difference. You cannot act on force of personality alone.

An actor has to embody a role.

I walk into a scene, and I do the scene. That's my job. I don't have an objective. I have the words, and I have whoever I'm playing with.

You've got to internalize the character. You've got to learn the words. These are separate things, but they work together.

I like to play characters, man. I almost don't even think of them as good guys or bad guys. I know that's a hard thing to realize, but I really just think of them as characters.

When you get to set, you don't try to play the plot; you just play the character.

I think actors always find the dialogue doesn't quite fit, so you always have to play with it.

You just have to play the character.

I've played several real characters, and I've always found it very difficult because you don't want to do an impersonation.

It's an acting job - acting natural.

The thing about being an actor is that you're acting. It's not that big of a deal of to play someone different from yourself.

I just try not to look at any role as a comedic role or a dramatic role. I just try to stay in the movie I'm in.

Acting is not about knowing all this stuff; it's about character.

Being an actor myself I realize that all actors believe they are qualified to play any role. If you showed me a script with a black woman character I would tell you that I could do it. That is what we do. We act as if we are someone else.

Reading great dialogue as an actor is such a rare privilege.

I don't mind being identified as any character as long as I'm doing a good job as an actor. I have done all kinds of roles - from an editor, judge, police officer, murderer to a corrupt businessman.

People ask me, 'How do you remember your lines?' That's nothing. That is the least of my concerns.

Preparation is definitely important, but it depends on the kinds of roles I do. Like, I completely identify with my character in 'Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani.' I had to be myself and I didn't have to actually prepare for it.

I'm an actor. I try to play a character in a really cool story, the very best I can.

What I love to do requires portraying different characters, and you have to separate your life from the role.

I would have to say that I have to concentrate more when I'm doing comedy. There are so many details that make up any character, but developing a character for a dramatic role seems to come more naturally.

Sometimes I'm doing a big movie, or sometimes I'm doing a TV show, but as an actor, it's almost the same thing for me. If I'm doing action, or comedy, or something more heartfelt, it's a different approach, but it's all acting for me.

So I just play the character, I play the lines.

I love drama. I love to play an arc.