Kunal Khemu Quotes

I'd like to do something dramatic or a different kind of role, but I tend not to separate comedy and drama all that much.

If you look at my movie career, I do switch it up a lot. I'm always looking for a lot of different parts. It's been a while since I've been in a situation that was romantic.

I'm interested in playing all kinds of parts.

I'm a working actor so I never really pick a film because of a genre, and I don't really turn them down because of genre. Anything that's unlike the picture I just finished is always more interesting.

I wouldn't say I'm drawn to dark roles, and it's not like I pick and choose.

I've had some marvelous parts, but I'm also asked to play characters who are kind of superficial people.

I was offered a lot of supporting crazy parts in comedies because that's all I had done.

I want to play many different characters.

Every actress hopes to play a wide range of characters because not often you don't.

I love playing characters, so I'm always telling my agents, 'Don't worry if the character description is something you think I'm not. Let me try to be that person.'

I don't want to do panel games or adverts. I really like challenges. I always get roles as an art teacher or a photographer. In the future I want to play something like a mugger/assassin/pastry chef.

I did 10 years of comedies and 10 years of Westerns. I really like to stay away from car chases. I prefer the more intimate film. You have a much more direct association with the emotions.

As an actor, you get to sort of bounce back and forth in terms of the age range you play and the life experience that your characters have.

As an actor I've been attracted to the sort of films that I want to go and see. That tends to usually be drama-related.

I don't go for glamour roles.

I've been getting diverse roles.

For me, the performance was always playing different people. And so when I got older, was no longer the romantic leading movie star, it became more and more interesting for me, the characters I played, you know?

I feel so fortunate to have been able to work so much, particularly in the horror-thriller genre, but I would love to be able to do something perhaps a little more dramatic or even a romantic comedy.

Throughout my career, I was to be cast as a frontier girl, an aristocrat, an Arabian, a Eurasian, a Polynesian, and a Chinese.

I want to do dramas. I want to do comedies.

Even in college I tended to get cast in the comedies more. It was what I liked doing.

I've been in more than 20 movies. You just do the best you can and try to make a living.

I've done literally 100, 150 different characters.

As an actor, I go where the good writing is. That's the bottom line.

As an actor, to do all sorts of different films is great.