Rajkummar Rao Quotes

It's a great challenge to get to play a real-life character. Every actor would love to get a chance, at least once in his life, to play a real-life character.

Docudrama is not really my game, but it's interesting to play real people; it's interesting to play 'real.'

I think the buzz of acting is playing people different to you, and for me, that means traversing all genres.

People have said, 'You don't need to do any more biopics. You don't need to play any more real people.' I don't agree with that.

To portray a maniac offers a compelling challenge.

The interesting thing is, when you play a real-life character or someone based in a book, you always come up against people's preconceptions of what they have in their heads.

We play many emotions in our careers, emotions that in real life we would perform just once. For example, my character has died in about 10 films, so you have to keep searching for different ways to do it!

It was quite difficult to play the role of a scientist in 'Hasee To Phasee.'

I have not only played light-hearted roles, but many times, I end up playing this annoying girl in films.

I've always wanted to do a role based on a real-life person.

I've played a lot of bad guys in my time, especially in movies. It's delightful playing the villain. It's almost the most interesting and most complicated role in a film.

It's one thing to play a character that's fictitious - it's quite another to play somebody that is alive and well.

The actor is there to translate what's on the page onto the stage or the screen. So I find it important that an actor manages to actually get out of the way, vanish as a person behind the character, never to be seen or talked about again. That's my philosophy.

My job as a character actor is to make me fit the character, to serve the character. To present this human being who turns up in a piece of film or entertainment that's going, you know, exist as if it might exist after the film is finished and it existed before the film has started.

I've played American characters before, so I've naturally become more at ease. Still, there are some American words that I cannot get my tongue around, but if you keep it flowing, you are never too far away from the truth.

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

There are elements of me in the roles I've played in the past. But people forget that Mary Poppins was just a role, too.

I think Ada in 'The Piano' is the most interior character I've ever had the chance to play, either on the stage or in anything I've done for film or TV.

I've realized over the years I either play very good people or very bad people, and I think I always enjoy the very bad people more.

I had been playing really interesting roles before I got great roles. Little ones - 'The Crying Game' I loved working on, and then 'Bird,' 'Ghost Dog,' so many films.

When actors have the opportunity to play a larger-than-life icon - my wife did it with Tina Turner, and Jamie Foxx did it with Ray Charles - you have to make a decision how you go in. What do you start with? Where do you begin?

It's daunting to play a real living person.

I have a little bit of experience going in and playing a character - I played a character on 'Smallville' that had been established for decades and decades before I took it.

Somebody came up with the idea of a double role, and I think 'Hum Dono' gave me a great double role - I played Captain Anand and Major Verma, the 'haw-haw' type of major.

I've played several real characters, and I've always found it very difficult because you don't want to do an impersonation.