Kay Kay Menon Quotes

Throughout your whole career, there's a bunch of people you might have to kiss. Say there's this character opposite you, and you might not be into her - or him, personally. You just gotta' do it. That's your job.

People really don't understand what actors do.

Of course, I would like to play the guy next door, but nobody's going to hire me for that kind of role.

Characters that are not the norm or a bit out of the ordinary are always a challenge as an actress. You learn more by using different tools for those type of characters. They are always much more fun to play and much more interesting. They take you places that you wouldn't necessarily go in your everyday life.

If I played characters who were like me, I'd be super bored.

I do weird parts - there's always something wrong with my character, or they are in a really weird situation.

I'm an actor. I have to play weird characters, quirky characters, strange characters, sometimes characters I don't understand.

As an actor, it is my job to prepare for the role I am playing.

I'm not looking for anything other than an interesting role to play.

Pray for the best, prepare for the worst, and expect the unexpected.

As actors, we have that in common that we go for slightly out-of-the-box or genre stuff. They're great when they work, but they don't always work. Genre stuff is really hard to pull off, as any fans of it know.

It's fun to explore areas that are taboo that you're not allowed to in real life as an actor.

I wanted to be an actor to act, and now, being an actor, you have to dress up, you have to be nice, you have to be smart, you have to be sexy, you have to be ready.

Historically, actors have been made very famous for roles that were something that was far - - Richard Widmark comes to mind (playing Tommy Udo in "Kiss of Death") or something like that, where you do some famous role and everybody imitates you for the rest of your life. But obviously it's much more fun to play something you're not than it is to play something you are.

I love to work, so give me what you've got. I'll play a tree, if you want me to. If you want fruit on it, then pay me more money. Otherwise, I just love to work.

you have to play it out sometimes.

I think the beautiful thing about acting is you don't really know who you are. You're able to be whatever you want any day during the week.

I'd also take any acting job...well, not any acting job, that's not true. I'd take a cool acting job.

I feel like I express myself, as an actor. Whatever the character is put in front of me, I try to bring truth to it, whichever way it lands. I try to bring as much truth to it and make it as believable as I can. I think that's the job of an actor.

I would say I am more concerned with the plays I'm going to do than the movies. I'm more comfortable in a play. In film, there's always a certain sense of control, of holding back. The stage is different ; there's more to act. There are more demands put on you, more experiences to go through.

To play Bond, though, and then for the world to perceive you in a certain way, is very different from playing Superman. Bond is not this ideal figure.

Each role you play, they set a bar of challenges that you meet. And in the past, I've played characters that emotionally expressed themselves a bit more in a physical way. It was a joy, actually.

Because' I repeated, as a breeze blew over us, "sometimes things just happen. That aren't expected. Or on the list." "Such as?" he asked "I don't know," I said, frustrated. "That's the point. It would be out of the blue, taking us by surprise. Something we might not be prepared for." "But we will be prepared," he said, confused. "We'll have the list.

Sometimes your characters in films do things that you wouldn't do. You're not playing yourself all the time.

Be ready to revise any system, scrap any method, abandon any theory, if the success of the job requires it.