I believe that anyone with a bit of guidance can act.

I trust my directors to see me through, for I don't consider myself as a natural actor - or a good one at that.

It's the failure of my debut film which made me an actor, which made me want to succeed in the industry. But that doesn't mean I regret whatever choices I've made over the years. No, not even 'Kaiyethum Doorathu!'

I will happily sit at home and take care of the house.

I do only what I like. If we do something we don't like, we will become someone else.

I am an actor, and I would like to reinvent myself through every character that I portray.

I'm an actor who evolves once the shoot starts.

I am a person who doesn't like responsibility of any kind. But I do enjoy what I do.

I think it would be a dream for any actor to play someone like Changampuzha.

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

It feels good to hear good things about yourself.

I'm not a person who goes out of my way to change my look. I like my characters to look as natural as possible.

Offscreen, I'm a private person. I'm shy and don't know how to face the public.

I've done only things I've liked, and I'm happy that others have liked them, too. I hope it keeps going that way. But l would never want to do films which please just one set of audience; they should connect with everyone.

There are two kinds of films: the ones that are devoid of logic but can still hijack the audience, and those that can win them over with logic. Both kinds can succeed, and I like to work in both.

All I believe in is, you need to be yourself.

It is easier to produce a film on your own than convincing another person to come on board.

If I do a film, I go to the place where it is based on, interact with people, and then, I believe, you pick up things without you even noticing.

Every character, when it comes to a cinematic representation, gets complicated and layered. You are given a lot of dimensions than a single dimension to an individual. That's the main difference between seeing something out of the window and seeing something on screen.

I have never been 100% confident that I am right about anything.

Mohan Raja is an interesting filmmaker. He is constantly, if I may use the word, contradicting himself. He explains a scene, and then he will try to break that and rebuild it. That, to me, is filmmaking. Every scene is constructed after a lot of discussions.

You can probably ask any actor: every time you start a new film, it's literally like your first movie. Everyone, regardless of the filmmaker being a debutant or a veteran, takes their time to settle down when you begin the shoot together. It's like all of us have moved into a new house, and we are setting up the place.

I never wanted to be an actor but ended up being one.

The closest encounter I had with films in my childhood was sitting on the lap of my father at a shooting set, and he would say 'rain,' and it started raining, and then he would say 'song,' and people started dancing. I thought I was sitting on God's lap.