Quotes About Roles

I've always wanted to play a normal woman, and I think I have been offered these parts where I play a kook because I'm not the idea of what a normal woman is.

1977 is the year I made my first movie. Shortly after, I was offered quite nice roles in television. The general consensus among everyone was that I'd be out of my mind to do that.

If I am offered good roles, I will definitely be back in Malayalam, anytime.

We don't get offered roles because of who we are but because of what we delivered in the past.

Actors are at the mercy of roles that are offered.

Once you get into your 40s, you're no longer leading-lady age. Generally, those roles get offered to women in their 20s and 30s.

The characters I usually get offered are described as 'none too bright' or 'funny but a little air-brained.'

I have been offered roles in mainstream films which have not been interesting to me. They have been too insignificant.

I went from auditioning for roles to being offered films directly.

I created 'The Guild' because nobody was offering me the roles I thought I could do best at in Hollywood.

I don't know myself why directors are offering me negative roles, although I did 'Yaddein' after 'Mission Kashmir' in which I played a very positive character, but people don't remember that.

As long as they keep offering me some good parts and so forth - there are some parts out there that fit me pretty well - I'll keep going for a while.

As an actress, I am happy that people are offering me good roles and I am earning success critically and commercially.

Tamil industry has been offering me wonderful roles, and that is what keeps me here.

I am not getting many offers in Mollywood, which is not the case in other film industries. And of the roles that are offered to me, I choose only the best.

At about 40, the roles started slowing down. I started getting offers to play mothers and grandmothers.

I get offers where I'm either asked to play the villainous saas or the maa who just wants to get her daughters married.

Bollywood offers great opportunities to actors who are willing to try out different kinds of roles.

I do get film offers, but if they are dance teacher kind of roles, I don't take them up.

After I played the frigid doctor on the 'Peyton Place' series, all I got for a long while was offers for more frigid doctor parts.

I act in films depending on the offers.

Offers have to be really interesting for me to take them up either in movies or TV.

When you make a decision to stop saying yes to rubbish, mediocre films, or roles that are not going to help you in any way. To make a conscious decision to say no. Then at the back of your mind you also have your insecurities 'oh God, will I ever even work again?'

Even in 'Victor/Victoria,' there was talk about what it means to be a woman, what it means to be a man. You didn't get that in the old days, in 'Charley's Aunt' or 'Some Like It Hot.'