Rajkummar Rao Quotes

I play my part in my films with utmost honesty.

My job is to be sincere to my script. I am passionate about what I do.

It's a surprisingly sacrificial job being an actor.

I just like to do different things. What is more important than the name is that people know that I really like acting, I enjoy it and I want people to know that I am serious.

I'm not trying to be romantic. I think you can tell when people are trying to be sexy onstage. When I was doing 'All the Way,' I was really thinking about my wife. People don't know my personal experience, but they can tell it's an honest interpretation.

I do my best work when I feel conviction to say something through the character I play. Always I want to have integrity and not compromise that.

I really believe in the characters I play.

I get very involved in my roles. I want people to think it's all really happening. If I'm in it, I'm in it.

For the role of 50-year-old Sivasami in 'Asuran,' Dhanush has put in phenomenal effort. With his extreme level of dedication, he pulled off the challenging character effortlessly.

I will do whatever I can to become the character. I have no right to distract the audience from the mood of the film.

I worked very hard playing Arjun, and I was consumed by the character.

So I view acting as a thoroughly involved performance with the maximum of sincerity and devotion.

The films you do are not just for the audience. As an actor, you are putting your heart and soul into them.

Al Pacino, De Niro, Daniel Day Lewis - they're the best out there because everything they do comes from a very honest place.

I would love to sign on to do a movie if it was the right role and if it was the right script, because I would be taking time away from music to tell a big grand story, and spend all of my time and pouring all of my emotions into being someone else. So for me to do that, it would have to be a story worth telling.

The trick is not to become somebody else. You become somebody else when you're in front of a camera or when you're on stage. There are some people who carry it all the time. That, to me, is not acting.

The secret of being a great actor is a love of food.

The best advice my dad ever gave me is that acting is believing. Acting is not acting. It isn't putting on a face and dancing around in a mask. It's believing that you are that character and playing him as if it were a normal day in the life of that character.

When it's time to film and to actually take on the role of Precious, I felt an immense responsibility to do it justice.

I look at scripts really for whether they can be moving or penetrate some kind of truth. You are constantly chasing that feeling as an actor when every part of a production comes together.

In any character I ever play, whether she's good or bad or whatever, my most important thing is heart.

I think that you have to find a piece of yourself in every role you play. If you don't believe what you're doing, you cannot expect anyone else to believe it.

The more ridiculous the character is, the more sincerity you have to bring to it.

Olivier said that drama is an affair of the heart, or it's nothing, and he was right.

I would have preferred to have been in a film where I could've been more authentic or more human, where the dialogue and my approach to the part could have been more real.