Top 100 Quotes & Sayings by Kay Kay Menon - Page 2

If you don't have integrity, don't be in cinema.

I find award functions laughable. To me, it is just like an extension of a college annual day function.

As a kid you can sense fear, love happiness very easily.

I have always believed that television is a very strong medium to convey stories, stronger than even movies. On television, you have more scope to explore a subject as it gives you more time.

Vijay Mallya is a star, not an actor. Anybody who lives a lifestyle of that kind, is a star.

Roles are extremely finite, but human beings are infinite.

Cinema is not about wearing 'bikni' and showing 'six packs'... All these are secondary.

Every human being has a plethora of emotions. As an actor, we are lucky to take them out and portray onscreen. But in normal life you can't do that. That is the charm of leading an actor's life.

Bollywood is an industry that is closer to making more entertainment-based films than anything else because people here are bothered about money.

Whether or not I am a 'character actor' or any other kind of actor, I really don't know. When people call me a 'character actor,' I fail to understand what it means.

I don't play roles, I play characters. There is a vast difference between the two.

The whole format of an awards function seems to be tailor made for a television audience. I think it is just an ego boosting affair.

People assume that displaying your own personal ego on screen is called acting, which is actually not what acting is about.

I don't bother about awards.

I don't analyze after I've done a film. So I have no dream role.

I don't understand when people say character actors. You either have the protagonist or the antagonist and I've played both. It's an actor's role to play a character. Does that mean that main stream heroes and heroines are characterless?

Let's not betray cinema with marketing inside the film. If it's done outside, then it's ok. That is essential to integrity.

I have never done any homework even when I was a child!

I've worked with a lot of people who have a lot of integrity towards cinema.

I get paid to act. I've never acted free for anybody and I'd rather be rewarded than awarded.

People should ask themselves why is it that they want to act.

Be honest and accept it if you do not have talent. And if you do, hone your skills.

Preparing for roles sounds so academic, doesn't it? It feels as if you are preparing for an examination! In a creative medium, the preparation is of an entirely different kind, and for me, the ideas flow from the script itself.

Every film is made for a commercial purpose - to earn money at the box-office.

I sift through the scripts offered to me and see what is worth attempting, because I think there is no point in wasting your time in doing something which you are not too keen on. I try and do whatever I feel interested in.

I like to play non-cardboard characters. I try and bring out the many complex layers in the personality of the characters I play.

I like to promote my work. I do the promotion for my work because that is required. Apart from that I just don't know how to promote myself, to be honest, I think my work ideally should speak for itself.

I can't pretend to do something I don't like.

I don't exactly relate to grey characters.

I don't have the expertise in that department, I seriously lack the skill to market myself.

I had these false ambitions - marketing and MBA. I didn't do very badly at it, but I realised my calling was something else.

People often accuse me of being serious. Have I played serious roles in 'Honeymoon Travels' and 'Sankat City?' It is just that after the films were made, producers did not have money to bombard it all over the place.

I thought running around trees is a gardener's job and not an actor's. However, if the script demands that I run around trees, well, you never know.

I was true to myself because I realized I was a better actor than signer.

If you make a good film, then there's no harm if it achieves commercial success.

It's difficult to explain in words, but I enjoy doing films more than theatre. It helps me in experiencing moments of truth and I can write an entire thesis on my love for the medium!

I think every Indian knows how to play cricket.

I have expertise of performing, not promoting.

There's a need to create a space for different kind of films. Let all kind of films co-exist peacefully.

You have got to dig deep into your own spectrum while playing a character. If I am playing evil, believe me, I am bringing out the evil from within me.