Quotes from Kay Kay Menon

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

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

As an actor, I like my films to be believable.

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

An actor should not bother about the camera per se, and what kind it is.

The moment you achieve perfection, you are dead. The word exists because we are all imperfect. That is true about performance as well.

It does not mean that in the process of a small screen, I do small acting, or if I do a big screen project, I do big acting. For the actor, it does not matter.

I don't bother about awards.

I remember my first role as a sunflower at nine.

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 do films for charity any more. In the past, I've done that for friends or people who couldn't not afford to pay. But now money matters.

The very idea of how chess players manipulate their game excites me.

Yes, I am extremely choosy. You decide whether to do a film or not only after you meet and talk to the film-maker. Only someone who thinks out of the box excites me.

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.

Acting is a symbiotic process, it is an amalgamation of many many things put together and when there is a call for action, that's when you surrender and the moment of truth comes out, that's when you perform. That is the process for every good actor.

Web series is an outing that is favourable to actors.

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.

Content films necessary don't go by the content, they go by the emotions. Content films are about content whether you want to portray the content or sell it through humour, through seriousness, is a choice of the filmmaker.

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.

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.

I believe man is stripped naked when he's in conversation with God. Your deepest fears, strongest desires, highest hopes - they're all there when you are talking to God.

We are a jingoistic nation - whether it is politics or films or whatever. We can posthumously shower praises and accolades on people, but when they are alive, we don't bother about them. A classic case is Om Puri.

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.

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