Quotes About Roles

I've really been blessed to have these roles in movies that will last forever.

I would rather do many small roles on TV, stage or film than one blockbuster that made me rich but had no acting.

Content is getting its due respect. Our audience wants to see characters on screen and want to see actors play new roles, adapt different body language.

I look for roles where I can do justice, show people a side of Bollywood they haven't seen before.

Somehow, in Bollywood I have always been offered comic roles. However, I am being looked at differently when it comes to movies being made in the West.

There are very few roles you actually get to perform for women. There aren't many woman-oriented films made in Bollywood.

I don't want my shows to run for more than a year as you get bored doing the same role. But you don't want your show to end in three months either.

I tend to play the dangerous characters, the boyfriend, that sort of thing.

After the series 'Roc' ended, every role offer I got was for the wise-cracking, ne'er-do-well brother or boyfriend, and I could have made a very good career doing those characters.

I only take up roles that really appeal to me, and like to break the rules as an actress.

There are just more roles for me in America. Sadly. Because I love working in Britain. It's my home.

I have done serious roles in various films including 'Budget Padmanabhan,' 'Thaththi Thavudhu Manasu,' among others.

I don't write about too many male businessmen, and I'm not apt to write about too many female businessmen.

Our Bollywood industry works in such a way that when an actor is seen in a gangster's role, he is offered similar roles.

As you know, Hollywood loves to pigeonhole all the actors and actresses, and suddenly I got 're-pigeonholed' as an action actor.

I've always believed that if you are willing to play your age that you will work, so it's the thing of continuing to play your age and accepting it when you're younger and you suddenly realize, 'Oh, now I'm playing the mom,' 'Oh, I'm playing the grandma.'

I'd love to play a femme fatale in a film noir. I'm thinking of one of those roles that Lauren Bacall or Bette Davis might have played. What I wouldn't like is to suddenly find myself being cast, as many senior actresses seem to be, as the abbess in a convent.

The moment you say, 'I want to do a role,' the story suffers. I don't set priorities in terms of roles or scripts.

I always get cast as the girl who's dying or the girl who's killing or the girl who's suicidal - all these heavy roles. But I like playing them.

I prefer to do roles that suit my mental maturity.

It's my job in Hollywood to find roles where I get to be a character not a bathing suit.

I don't act. I am the way I am, and choose roles that I think suit my body language.

Every actor is great in his own right but certain actors suit certain roles.

If James Franco's wearing a costume, and I'm wearing a motion capture suit, we don't act any differently with each other because of what we're wearing. We're embodying our roles.