A biography for Kay Kay Menonhasn’t been written yet.
“One fine day, I realised that advertising was not my calling. I closed shop and plunged into theatre.”
“The moment you achieve perfection, you are dead. The word exists because we are all imperfect. That is true about performance as well.”
“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 play roles, I play characters. There is a vast difference between the two.”
“I don't understand when people say character actors. You either have the protagonist or the antagonist and I've played both. It's an actor's role to play a character. Does that mean that main stream heroes and heroines are characterless?”
“The paradox of perfection is that you should try and achieve it by doing quality work even though you know you can never achieve it.”
“People often accuse me of being serious. Have I played serious roles in 'Honeymoon Travels' and 'Sankat City?' It is just that after the films were made, producers did not have money to bombard it all over the place.”
“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.”
“I have no issues if audiences don't like a film or a performance, and the film doesn't do well. My problem is when they say that the film was good and performances were excellent, but the film didn't run. I have a problem when that happens.”
“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.”
“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.”
“It's difficult to explain in words, but I enjoy doing films more than theatre. It helps me in experiencing moments of truth and I can write an entire thesis on my love for the medium!”
“Roles are extremely finite, but human beings are infinite.”
“For me, making time for God is like making time to fill my stomach - like the physical space in the stomach needs food, spiritual space in one's soul needs regular prayer.”
“I can't really iterate what I look for in a script. It's a very subjective thing. Like an organic attachment you have with the script and characters.”
“Web series is an outing that is favourable to actors.”
“My mother was a housewife.”
“The very idea of how chess players manipulate their game excites me.”
“I am born and brought up in Maharashtra so for me, Marathi is an often heard language.”
“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.”