Quotes About Roles

No doubt an actress has to do varied roles. But I don't want myself to be typecast as an actress who can only do off-beat ventures.

I want to be a versatile actor and do different kinds of roles.

My main agenda as an actor is just to spend time with my characters - I am really glad that the roles being offered to me is very versatile.

It's so funny because, here in Hollywood, an actor who really is versatile and who has the ability to transform between comedy and drama roles is considered a rarity.

What leads me is the conviction that as an artiste, attempting versatile roles will help me improve.

Being an actor, you have to be versatile, and open to all kinds of roles, be it positive or one with grey shades.

I'm a very versatile player, I have covered many midfield roles but my favourite one is the centre-midfield.

I have done versatile characters from the beginning of my career.

I want everyone to understand that as an actor you need to be able to play different roles, be versatile even in terms of your personality.

My main goal, when I started acting, was to show as much versatility as possible because I like playing diverse roles.

I like to do new things, so I always take on roles that I feel will keep me on my toes. I never want to pigeon myself, so I always like to surprise myself. I believe in versatility and so I would play anything as long as it was a challenge.

The challenge is when you're offered similar roles, and you have to play them differently. I don't want people to say, 'She performs similarly in every film. There is no versatility.'

You get the older version of women that you've played before.

In Bengali films, I played my version of glamorous, where I played a wide-ranging characters.

In some roles you do that very hard work where, at some point into rehearsals, where all of a sudden it snaps into place. You feel like the soul of this character is now dwelling in you.

I haven't been offered a lot of comedy. In theater, I've done quite a bit of comedy or dramas that included a lot of funny stuff. But in my TV work, those aren't the roles that I've been offered.

I feel it most in my work, because there aren't roles about women who are spiritually evolving. That anyone would even write something like that, something that's worth doing, would be a miracle!

I'm not fussy about the medium I work in. I'll do television radio, you know. I have to, because that's the only way I can do continually good roles.

I come from the theater, and I've done a lot of character work in the theater, but Hollywood stuff in film and TV, they've been more leading lady/ingenue type roles.

What I learned was there's no roles for women who won't be in their 40s. For women who will be in their 40s, there's a ton of work.

Some of the supporting roles that I've done as an actor, I took them because I knew that I would get to watch some of the leading guys in the movies, and also I'd get to work with them.

All societies that have survived based on their ability to prepare their sons to be disposable, in war and at work - and therefore as dads.

That's a frustration sometimes, that certain directors that I'd like to work with, they just aren't doing stories that I'm sort of castable in. Not always, but sometimes I have that frustration.

To some women, a job plays the role of a man. To most women, a man plays the role of a job.