Quotes About Acting

In terms of theater, I would love to go back to do theater. If I could find something for me to do that fits in with the 'Psych' off-season, I'm game. I would like to do theater where I get to act and dance.

Be it commercial or offbeat, I want to establish myself as an actress.

I came to L.A. with confidence in my craft, and I was very offended when I didn't get a part. It took me awhile to understand that it is not always about your acting.

While people loved me in Tashan-E-Ishq,' there were some who felt that since I am a Punjabi, I managed to get it right. The actor in me was really offended. So I took up Dil Se Dil Tak,' as I had to play a Gujarati girl in it.

I enjoy doing everything, comedy and drama. I just look for the characters really and what they offer.

If you only live in the world of the actor, and if you only live in the world of auditions, etc., then you don't really have a whole lot to offer when it comes to playing the humans that you're trying to audition for.

I wanted to go to Rome. I got an offer to do an Italian film and I went.

If I have anything to offer as an actor, it's only my ability to make the person real.

I don't really compare any of the characters I play; I try to go into them being very open to what the characters can offer and what I can bring to them and then bring a being to life.

Let me clear it once and for all: I was never offered 'Befikre.' But had I been offered, I wouldn't have done it.

Usually, the roles that you get offered that are the mom roles are very much the mom role.

I wish I'd done 'Dumb and Dumber.' I was offered the part, but I don't think I'd have been better than Jeff Daniels was. Another film I wish I'd done was 'Jerry Maguire.'

I never turned a part down when they offered me money.

I've been offered starring roles in horrible movies, but I just didn't want to do it. I don't see why you would.

I have been offered several Bengali films. Due to destiny and good luck, 'Noukadubi' will be my first.

I don't get offered many comedies.

Once you do one bad guy, usually all you get offered is bad guys.

When you're brown and Indian, you get offered a lot of doctor roles.

A lot of times when I've been offered film series and stuff, if they shoot in Los Angeles, I lose interest.

My first mother's role was in 'Aradhana.' But after that in mid to late 1980s, I was being offered more roles of mothers.

I would definitely do TV, at the drop of a hat, if I was offered a good role.

I like doing films and I wish that I could do more but I still have to audition. I don't get offered starring roles in movies even though I've written and starred in a movie.

I've done a lot of drama, and comedy was the one genre I was not being offered. So I became obsessive about getting one.

I haven't only been offered Hasidic roles.