Vijay Sethupathi Quotes

I love being on set.

I like a lot of takes. I just go on until the actors get it right.

When on the set of a film, you have to play natural for entire scenes in a very unnatural environment. You have to express emotions and interact with other actors and also use your voice.

Every day on set, there was something to watch and learn.

The first feature film I did, when I did 'Night Shift,' I improvised quite a bit because I would improvise at the audition, so sometimes I would return to the original lines, and then when I was on set, I would improvise even more.

British actors are pretty good, by and large, at turning on at 'action' and off at 'cut.'

I enjoy working with actors so much and having the chance to be surprised by them.

Normally, when you do a movie, you have those mundane days when it's like, 'Today is the scene where I get coffee.'

I love being on a movie set.

All I can do is keep my nose down and shoot the scene, shoot the scene, make it funny, make it funny, make it funny.

Theatre is where my heart is. It's where I can do my best work. And even if I do films and TV, that's what I want to come back to.

So I find the fascination, the love, the incredible skill and everything to do with acting, writing plays, and doing them, just darling. Lovely. I love actors.

Theatre is the principal job of an actor. An actor's job is to tell a story to someone in a room. TV and film can be great and I really love doing it, but it is a different way of telling a story.

One thing I've really never had a problem with was memorizing lines. Most of the time I don't memorize the lines until we're on the set shooting the scene.

I've always enjoyed Acting. Acting is acting.

It's an acting job - acting natural.

I don't like improvising on camera, particularly, but very often, a scene will not be working, and you rehearse it once or twice, and you realize something's missing. So I'll play with it until it makes sense.

Where every moment is about truth and I think it's a great challenge every night. That's what really drove me to wanting to do theatre, and it's great.

I love actors. That's my bread and butter, and I got to work with some amazing ones on '12 Years'.

I just like to act.

All I've done is live my life in the theater and loved it.

Depending on the show, I've played a cop, a criminal, or a victim. So there's a range.

This is going to sound cheesy, but with acting there are so many tools. When you're on camera, you're using all of it. You're using the voice, you're using your body, you're using wardrobe, all of it, but it's funny, once you take all of those things away, you realize how much you rely on the physicality.

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

For an actress there is no greater gift than having a camera in front of you, listening to the most beautiful music in the world and just being looked at!