Quotes About Acting

Mind you, if a blockbuster movie was offered, I wouldn't say no. I can do accents - I don't always have to be Scottish.

There are scripts when you fall so much in love with your character. And if you are lucky and offered this part, you should not tempt your fate and go to the greatest extent to be/to play this character. If you have an opportunity to do that and you do not, it's shameful.

For some reason, I always get offered plays when I'm doing plays and then, if I stop doing them, people stop asking me.

You might see some of the movies that I'm in where there are shades of drama or whatever, but for the most part, I don't get offered serious roles.

When I was told that I was being offered a role in 'Miss Julie,' I already knew I wanted to do it.

I am very happy acting, and just have never gone at, or been bitten by the directing bug to the extent where I'm willing to put acting aside. If offered the opportunity, I think I could do a good job with the right material.

You try to go where the great scripts are, if you can, or you go where the not great scripts are, because that's what's being offered to you.

I'm either offered window-dressing parts in large movies or little art films no one ever sees. People think the movies I end up doing are my real choices. I do the best things I'm offered.

I carried on acting during school holidays and was all set to go to drama school when I was offered my first professional job appearing in 'King David' with Richard Gere.

The 'boy next door' parts I get offered, I don't find interesting.

It's harder in the States. I'm much more inclined to get offered things that are a lot straighter and heavier and dramatic. And they go by looks, too. If you look like a leading man, then that's what they will consider you for.

Once you do one bad guy, usually all you get offered is bad guys. But I've been able to do different things.

I've only chosen films that offered me something concrete, even if it is less than what I get to do in the South.

I've always wanted to play a normal woman, and I think I have been offered these parts where I play a kook because I'm not the idea of what a normal woman is.

Coming off 'House of Cards,' playing someone so straight-laced, I was getting offered a lot of F.B.I. agents.

After the first 'Hedwig,' interestingly, I was offered to play Hamlet a couple of times.

I was offered a role in the series 'Homeland,' which I couldn't do because the dates clashed with my film with the Bhatts - 'Khamoshiyan.' But I wish I had done it. Look at how much notice the series got Nimrat Kaur.

I was shooting for 'Bobby Jasoos' when I was offered 'Khamoshiyan.'

If I am offered good roles, I will definitely be back in Malayalam, anytime.

I'm bored. I'm bored with the kind of parts I get offered. I can do more.

I am not bothered about if my role in a film is small or big. Because if the character I am offered is sensible, I would do it even if it is small.

My experience has offered me the sensibility that encourages me to try newer characters.

Theater is great because you're able to tell a narrative arc without a break. I think it's more about the material and whether what we get offered is good.

I was offered to play an Italian part in an Italian film. Although I could not take it up because I did not have the time, the kind of characters being offered to us are changing.