Rajiv Menon Quotes

If people need to be informed by lines, then there's no reason why the actor is saying the line except for information for the audience; I think there's something wrong.

I don't have a favorite genre. I love to work and live vicariously through every character. It's all about trying to bring the character to life and get the story across in a way that resonates with the audience. It's always interesting and challenging in a gratifying and unique way.

Once in awhile, there's stuff that makes me say, That's what theatre's about. It has to be a human event on the stage, and that doesn't happen very often.

Our job as actors is to just try to be as accurate and as mindful of what the audience is going through and receiving and processing.

The fundamental job of the actor is to tell about the human condition, to be a voice for the truest ideas and deepest emotions.

An actor can give his best shot but the script and dialogues have to have punch to make it more effective.

Some actors just have a quality, a way of combining music and character and story, where everything just falls into place.

The only thing we are as actors are messengers. That's all we are. Correct? We are delivering the playwright's intention through the concept of the director. And I come on stage; if I feel confident in the role, then I give it away.

Theater is about language, so characters have to define themselves through language for an audience.

As actors, you do have to be aware of your audience. You can't act in a vacuum, even if that audience isn't exactly present with you.

Feelings are universal, and if an actor's doing his job, I think he's making people sit there, and if it's in a movie or a theatre, going 'Hmm, yeah, I know that... I know that.'

I think that you have to keep the reader front and centre if you're going to write something that people are going to love and be entertained by.

If I'm doing my job as an actor, the audience knows everything I know about the character.

In my acting, I have tried to do this - to present to audiences a living creature in whom they can recognise themselves or someone they know.

When watching movies, I was always inspired by the performances of the cast. Of course, the story and the direction and all that intrigued me. But what actors would propel themselves to do, and be, was awesome. It was like, how could these people give so much?

Actors are there to represent the human condition back to itself. It's never about the actor. It's about the content. That's what I strive for in my work.

My job playing Sam Malone was to let the audience in, to love my bar full of people. And that informed my life.

There are ways in which you can make sure that even if people come to the theatre because they know an actor or actress, by the end, they've forgotten that, and they leave going, 'Wow - what an amazing play.'

I love to be a vessel through which characters can come through. And if I can move an audience with my work, then I've done my job.

There's a great tradition of actors taking on parts of much less obvious sympathy.

What I'm doing in the work I do, I prefer not to just have a series of jokes. It's nice when audiences can connect with the characters as well.

Actors do movies because you want to make a connection; you want an audience to recognise themselves in what it is that you're depicting.

My job as an actor is to just tell the story as best I can from my character's point of view and let the audience decide.

Everything that I am going to do as an actress doesn't matter where it's coming from. It just has to be interesting.

Our job is to unleash the play. It's not just about your character or interaction with the other characters. There's an energy in all good plays which you have to find. And that is part and parcel of ensuring that an audience gets what it's about.