Quotes About Roles

I don't really differentiate between different genres: if there's a good part going, I'll go after it, and it's preferable to me if it's something I haven't done before.

I will do all genres. I will do intense roles, along with the kind of films that I have grown up watching, like 'Biwi No. 1' and 'Judwaa.' But I won't do films where, if you take me out of the script, nothing changes.

As an actor I get opportunities to do different kind of films. It's not that if I have done a few comedies, I'm averse to other roles or genres. It's just that I go for the films I like and incidentally some of them have been comedies.

I can't do only goody-goody roles. I can't be complacent, I have to play characters in different genres.

It's nice, though, getting older and being able to do different roles.

Without meaning to sound anti-men, ghastly women are the closest you get to a male role.

I never went to school wanting to play cute characters or girly characters.

There are so many roles on TV that I don't covet. I see them, and I'm glad I don't have to play them.

I've been on the lookout for meaningful roles, not just the glamorous ones.

I don't choose characters according to looks. I'm comfortable doing both glamorous and non-glamorous roles.

Bascially, I want to do movies wherein even the girl's character actually has a part. If you want me to do glamorous roles, that's fine. But you have to make sure the character is good.

I do glamorous roles only when the script demands it and that too with limitations.

Nobody ever thought of me as dumb. They always knew me as cerebral, a thinking person. Educated and so on. But I was always given glamorous roles.

The idea is to choose good roles and good movies. I don't want to act simply to remain in the industry, nor am I here to do glamour roles.

I have this demure, girl-next-door image and audiences will not accept me in glamour roles.

It's not that I haven't been giving attention to Mollywood. Nor was I consciously going for glamour roles. The fact is that I got busy in Kannada.

I want to do good films. It is not that I have any problem doing commercial roles, with all the glitter. I am doing 'Cabaret.' It is very glamourous.

As an actor, I know roles go away. You get another job.

I do think that good actors can do any part. It doesn't mean that they are the best ones to do it.

There are some jobs that you go for because achieving them would take your career in a direction that you would like it to go, but mostly, I want to play the roles and have had the great good fortune and opportunities to play some fantastic roles and been very, very fortunate.

I've never seen any character I've ever played as a bad guy or a good guy.

I've played quite a few good guys.

I've never gone around looking for roles. It has been my good luck that all the films that I have done, the filmmakers have approached me.

I've realized over the years I either play very good people or very bad people, and I think I always enjoy the very bad people more.