Quotes About Roles

I feel that when it comes to acting, Shahid and I approach roles differently.

It's such a difficult thing for women, especially, to admit when we're not coping, because we're supposed to be all right with all the different roles we're born with and are piled on us later on.

I've never had any difficulty sharing the screen with any actor. For me, roles are challenging, not co-stars.

Each of my roles affects different dimensions of my life.

Yes, as you age, the roles obviously diminish.

I choose movies, I never choose roles. I look at the script. I look at the director. I look at the other actors - and then the role.

I just really want to continue to play those roles where I really have something to do, and mainly, above all, work with people that I can learn from - directors I think are so great.

I've been lucky to learn by playing all kinds of roles and watching all kinds of really good cinematographers, actors, and directors for many years before people were even aware of me in terms of audience.

I don't have a philosophy for choosing roles. Sometimes, it's just, 'This might be interesting; that might be fun to do.' There might be interesting actors or directors in the project, even if the part is not important. And then sometimes, you need the money.

If you see films which have been successful over the last 10 years, the women in them have been in their 20s. 'The Dirty Picture' and 'English Vinglish' are two I can think of. But there are very few good roles for women in their 30s.

I like to disappear in my roles because I don't have an assistant.

I do admire actors who manage to lose huge amounts of weight for roles: you have to have astonishing discipline to do that to your body and maintain it for a certain length of time before letting yourself go back to normal.

Beyond any role that I ever had, really early on as a stand-up, I would see actors decide to try it and they would bomb miserably. What I realized was that stand-up, acting and writing are all their own disciplines.

I'm an actor in that I just want to create roles and characters and play parts that people remember and like or dislike or hate.

It's very important to be able to distinguish the actors from the characters they play.

I'm extremely happy to be doing different projects, taking up diverse roles that allow me to explore my own potential as an actor.

I've been getting diverse roles.

As an actor, I am looking for diverse roles.

It's a blessing that I get to play such diverse roles.

I can't keep myself from playing roles. The emotionless decadent, looking for diversion from boredom, is a favorite.

I think I'm already slotted. After 3 Bahuraniyaan where I played a positive role, I did one negative role just as an experiment. After that I started getting only such roles.

I would love to experiment with roles. But when people say that we are not doing anything different, it is because directors do not approach us with diverse roles.

I have never thought about creating an image for myself in Bollywood. I am an actor and just want to experiment with roles. I am ready to do all type of roles.

At the end of the day we need to experiment and if we start being too cautious, we'll end up working with the same actors and doing the same roles. That's how people get stereotyped.