Rajkummar Rao Quotes

When you're playing someone who is angry and sad all the time, you get a little down.

As an actor, it's very interesting to make the audience love you while you are doing horrendous things.

I'm not one of those actors who wants to live in some kind of dark character and wants to live in the darkness so much that no one around me has any fun.

A lot of preparation was needed to play the character of Omar Sheikh in Omerta. I watched a lot of documentaries and hate speeches to cultivate anger in me.

Playing the villain, bringing her to life, is the most fun because there really are no rules.

Playing characters I don't relate to are a big challenge for me.

It's not that easy, but the moment the camera is switched on, I have to mould myself to breathe life into the characters I portray.

I think playing a negative character is more difficult and challenging, since you have a lot to work on, and you have to put a lot of efforts.

Well, it definitely comes as a challenge to act as enemies onscreen when you bond with the opposite person very well off-screen.

To portray a real-life character is the toughest job for an actor because one never knows which direction to flow.

Humpty' was something I had to do. I had to stretch myself as an actor.

Actually it's a gift as an actor to cover such different parts of history. It's like time travelling, being inside a history book, in the actual locations.

Acting in an epic and a non-fictional film is a big challenge for actors, as they need to research extensively about the characters they are playing before stepping into their shoes.

As actors, that has been challenging for us to pick up the nuances of the living legends we are playing.

I like doing stuff that is sad or angry. It's a challenge, because you're doing a mix of scenes and you're making a person.

As an actor, it's really exciting and challenging to play a character which is much older than your actual age.

For me, as an actress, you are playing a character, and to play that character, you have to get into that mindset.

I think, for every actor, the most challenging part of playing a character, specially a real-life character, is to convince yourself that you are the character.

It took me a while to get over 'Highway'. I started living the character of 'Veera' very closely. I don't think I would be able to give so much to a character the way I did with her.

I love playing different and challenging characters on screen, and Newton is one such role. But I'm someone who doesn't think so much about what will happen next.

I never judge the characters I'm asked to play, and I don't need to feel that they are a part of me.

It's a real challenge to have someone perform a character vs. imitate a character.

My character should not be ordinary, cliched, and if I feel that it's difficult to do this character, I take up that challenge to get into his character.

I've played horrible people and done horrible things, and there were moments on 'The Knick' where it was super uncomfortable - some of the things I had to do and say.

The goal, when you're playing a character that's super beloved from a movie, is to honor what the actor before you has done and then really just expand, which is what you get to do in a musical because you have songs, choreography, and everything is happening in real time.