Quotes from Sushant Singh Rajput

I can also romance a guy if I like the character and the script. Obviously, only in the film!

For me, the script is important. If it excites me, I'll do the film.

I crave for adventure. It makes me feel alive and excited. It's a constant tussle between what you want to do and other parameters that aren't in your hands.

TV helped me understand camera angles, close-ups, master shots.

The equation I share with the camera doesn't change whether you place a camera in front of me or a live audience. Just the pay cheques differ. But that doesn't matter to me because I've so much money, I don't even think about it. It's just lying there.

Bringing out your vulnerable side and shedding your privacy in front of complete strangers is so very difficult, but when you are into the performance, the relief and release is so extraordinary that you get addicted.

I really wanted to buy a Range Rover. It was a big dream, and the day I bought it, I was very happy, but by evening, I was immune to it. That's when I realized that excitement, if it's happiness, is not in reaching the goal but in the process. Thus process trumps over realization.

Every character that I've chosen has made me evolve as an actor. And I am lucky that my directors have shown so much faith in my abilities.

I pray to God every day that he makes me the biggest superstar, but before that, I ask God to make me a good actor. Being a star is hard, but being an actor is even harder. I want to be both before I am done.

Money was a big differentiator when I was growing up, but I made sure it doesn't stay that way.

If you have skills to pull off even a four-hour film, people will go and watch it.

What people think of me doesn't affect me. As bizarre as it sounds, I don't have a Google alert on my phone; I don't read newspapers, and I don't watch television. If something important happens, I will get to know about it.

It took me 13 months just to prepare for 'M.S. Dhoni'... I started by watching every single video I could find of his, repeatedly. After three months, people who met me started saying that they could see similarities, and I knew I was on the right path.

I have songs that define characters from each film of mine. It can be a song from that particular film or something that just goes with the wavelength of the film; you listen to it, and it gives you that rhythm. I can't articulate how it helps, but it somehow gives you an understanding of the character.

I despise women wearing too much makeup. It hides their actual beauty.

Before the film begins shooting, in your head, you need to be the character. You have to convince yourself somehow.

I think, for every actor, the most challenging part of playing a character, specially a real-life character, is to convince yourself that you are the character.

As an actor, you think you know your craft, you know the conflicts in your character, but often you don't.

When I was young, I was supposed to study in the afternoon, and 4 - 5:30 P.M. was playtime. The entire day would revolve around that time. We would play anything - kabaddi, cricket. Those one and half hours would feel like 5 minutes.

I was very excited and interested as a background dancer or as a theatre actor or when I was working on TV, or even on the film which didn't do well, like 'Byomkesh.'

I take time to open up with people. But once I know you, I'm fine. I'm a shy person.

The best thing is to accept the circumstances, not take them personally, deal with them, stop complaining, and give everything your best.

Whatever dream you have, be sure that it is going to be happen, and then forget about it. Then you have to come back to the present and be there 100 percent.

I am not a private person; you can ask those who hang out with me.