Rajkummar Rao Quotes

I've got to tell you, I've played real characters before and people always bring up this word 'impersonation,' and I'm never entirely sure what it means.

If you play a real character who's famous and still alive, it makes things easier if you have the luck to have a good relationship with them.

I think it's fun playing a part that lots of other people have played, in a way.

It's going to be very interesting to see somebody playing me.

It's difficult to adopt mannerism of a real-life person and even add the nuances of your acting into it.

Look up the word role in the dictionary and you'll see it means playing a part. That's why I call myself a real model.

I didn't want to see George Hamilton playing me, I wanted the real thing.

I always figure hey, look, I'm not a rock star, I'm an actor. I'm somebody who's meant to be other people and I'm not meant to be here representing myself. I'm happier when I'm presenting myself as other characters.

I've spent all my life playing roles that illustrious people have played before me.

It's one thing to play a character that's fictitious - it's quite another to play somebody that is alive and well.

My James Bond wasn't any different to my Saint or my Persuaders or anything else I've done. I've just made everything that I play look like me and sound like me.

There are elements of me in the roles I've played in the past. But people forget that Mary Poppins was just a role, too.

As an actor, you are either emulating someone else, or some version of yourself.

I don't think the physical resemblance is as important as capturing the soul of the person that the actor is portraying. How much like Charlie Chaplin did Robert Downey Jr. look in 'Chaplin?' Did Meryl Steep actually resemble Nora Ephron in 'Heartburn?'

It is my job to step into different characters.

I've played outrageous characters my whole career.

My job always is to play a person, not to judge her.

I think every role you take on, you should take on the responsibility of doing the best representation of that person or that character or that role. When it is a human being that has actually existed, and it is a person that people know of, yeah, you feel an even more amount of pressure to do a good job.

All of us have a lot of sides to ourselves, but the fun thing about being actor is you make one side predominant for the character you're playing.

I know acting is not impersonating, but I'm good with impressions. I can do impressions of people I know, and people I've been, and roles that I've acted before.

I just love to impersonate people, and I impersonate people because I find them fascinating.

There is a large element of me in every role I do.

I always try to make each character my own.

To play Hillary Clinton? I'm kind of winging it. No, are you kidding me? I prepared obsessively. I mean, as much as I could in the time that I was given. Of course, with someone like Hillary Clinton, obviously, anything you want is on YouTube and at your fingertips there.

Obviously, any time you're closer in terms of what your knowledge is to a character, you can add something. But an actor's job is not to play only people he can identify with.