Karthi Quotes

A lot of people think I'm cynical when I talk about acting. The truth of the matter is, I just don't want someone to get some lame advice that will send them in the wrong direction.

Reality is, I'm an actor and an entertainer, and I really wouldn't know what to do with another profession.

As an actor, of course, you want to be in something that's successful.

When I started out, I didn't have any desire to be an actress or to learn how to act. I just wanted to be famous.

My belief is that if I can achieve that level of entertainment by making the audience happy or sad or angry, then I have succeeded as an actor and have done my job. The profits and the fame as an actor will eventually surface, but first and foremost comes the work as an actor.

I never wanted to become an actor to be famous. I just wanted to be a good actor. It served me pretty well.

I never really saw my dad as entertained as when he was just completely blown away by somebody on the television screen or at the movies. I think that's the real reason that I went into acting.

When I doing dinner theater in high school, I was talking to a woman who had been in the business for a while and I said I want to act, that's all I want to do with my life and she said if you're serious then you need to hone every discipline you can.

One of the great things about being an actor is it serves a short attention span, which is something I have.

It seems like a really fun way to make a living, but I'm truly terrible at acting.

You can act, or you can't. I'm sure a lot of people who are serious about acting would disagree, but I'm not really worried about them.

I told my father I wanted to act, and he stared renting all these classic films for me to watch.

I don't feel secure as an actor. I want to do more films and get accepted by masses.

Actors should ACT. Not sell perfume, or write cookbooks.

Everyone's amazed by the question that how did I succeed as an actor in the industry, which has Kamal Haasan? It's because I grew as an actor watching Kamal's acting.

It is a nice feeling when the audience reaches out to me by my character names from the films that I have done.

At the end of the day, if you are an actor, you definitely know that you're just work-for-hire.

I really want to act and act in great roles, which have scope of performance.

Theatre contributes in the growth of an actor and lets one know the real worth of acting.

Standup led me to acting because I liked standup, and I saw people on a stage, and the closest, nearest thing to me was doing plays. It was like, that's the same thing as standup - people are on a stage; they're being seen and saying things - so, because of my love of standup, I moved towards acting.

I think a natural evolution for me would be to try to transfer over into the film and TV world and start playing different characters. Hopefully, that way, I can keep entertaining my fans that are fans of me, in different avenues and different spotlights. It's a natural evolution.

The toughest challenge for any actor is to get accepted and loved by the audience.

My experience of performing in Gurgaon has been very satisfying.

I was doing stand-up at the Improv and when the host introduces you, 'OK, the next comedian, you've seen him on 'Silicon Valley.' People always clap. They really watch the show and they are fans of it. And then they said, 'You are also going to see him in 'Crazy Rich Asians,' and I did not expect this, but the applause was even louder.

Look, let's be honest. No one is interested in seeing me act. My bare arms, legs, front and back grab more attention than how I perform on screen.