Rajiv Menon Quotes

I always knew my mom was a good actress.

Theatre demands different muscles and different aspects of one's personality.

Let's be honest. Physicality is going to have a bearing on the parts you get. And if you think differently, you're in the wrong business.

I don't consider myself a good actor.

I am an actor. I try to do different things.

I have always been dramatic, so I think being an actress comes naturally to me. I think I am pretty good at it.

Actors are bloody marvelous at hiding.

You can have good writing, but a great actor will make it feel and sound like great writing. You can have great writing, and mediocre actors will make it feel mediocre. Without the actors, you have nothing.

I have learned that acting is not about beauty.

In the end, I'm an actor. I'm paid for what I bring to the screen.

I may not be Meryl Streep, but I am not untalented.

Jerry Orbach is just phenomenal. He is genius, so present.

I don't quite fit in in like a pure dramatic thing, but I still think of myself sometimes as sort of a dramatic actress.

I think Carrie Preston is one of the most talented actresses I've ever met in my entire life. I've seen her do a lot of other things, and she's fantastic.

I have a secret aspiration to be considered for a part where it doesn't matter what you look like to play it.

They sent me the script, asking me to play the part of a general. I have never played the part of an authority figure. I've never thought of myself that way. I was uncomfortable with it, but I worked at it and knew I had a guttural voice for a general.

I just let the work speak for itself. An actor is not afraid to take risks; to put on different hats; to be a good guy, a bad guy, a victim, an abuser. There are all kinds of people in the world, and playing them is what acting is all about.

I love performing and pretending - it's very easy for me.

I think people will be curious to see what I can do as a dramatic actor.

I'm a character actor; that's my skill set.

I don't really know how to act that much. I'm quite good at comedy, but it's mostly acting naturally.

I think of myself as a journeyman actor. I've got some talent and I work hard, but people like Brando or Pacino - those people are touched by God.

Acting really suited me because I could connect as an actor to emotion.

An actor should be judged by his performance only.

I've always felt, pound for pound, I'm one of the best guys around; but you get stuck in people's eyes in a certain way, and it takes an imaginative director who will look at you and realize you can play different kinds of parts because you are an actor.