Anita Hassanandani Reddy Quotes

As actors, you have to keep showing variety in performance, as people are lazy to think about you in a different way.

I look to challenge myself with a character that's not like myself or anything I've done before, but I certainly don't reject roles based on how often I've done them.

I've always looked for roles that were far removed from me.

I just want to challenge myself and play some different characters.

Acting's all about stepping out of the box, so I don't want to go to work every day and play Cassie Scerbo at all.

It's a risk casting anyone against type or what they're known to do. But there's one thing better than having a great actor, which is having a great actor who's never done what you're asking him to do. He's hungry to get out of the trailer every day and hungry to test himself.

It is scary for an actor when you get hired as a lead. No matter what the plot is, it is your job to do something interesting enough to make them want to get inside the lead character's head.

Everyone has the opportunity to do a horror film. There's something great about it as an actor. You have to go to places you'd normally never go and be put in situations you would never be put into. You don't get the opportunity in a lot of films to have this kind of acting. It's an interesting challenge.

I love roles that don't really have a template or a paradigm and force me to create using my own imagination... that really, really turns me on.

You don't want to shock them and do something totally opposite, but you also want to play a different character.

You have to be brave and not always play likeable people. It's difficult, because there's a demand for the hero or heroine to be very likeable.

I don't want to play the same person twice, that's not why I wanted to act.

I want to try something different in Hollywood, to tell the audience I am not just an actor star - I am an actor, too.

They really stay just characters to me. I look at them, and I don't see always the same person up there. And hopefully, people will see that too. Because it's very easy to bore people, and that's a killer. So hopefully that won't happen.

I would like to one day play a man. That is something I do know. I don't know what kind of man. I don't know if that would ever happen or not. It would be the ultimate challenge.

I haven't done many films. But with every movie, I try to showcase a different side of me through a character.

Even if I do get stereotyped, I would like to think that it is more of a challenge because if you are given one character and asked to play in 10 different ways, it says more about me as an actor.

Four directors through their own interpretation created four different characters. And I had to play them in a fairly short period of time.

The most exciting acting tends to happen in roles you never thought you could play.

My priority as an actor is just to be doing different kinds of roles. I say no to anything I have done before.

I try to mix the characters up and not be second guessed by the audience.

I will always accept good films that require demanding performances.

Being an actor I believe in doing a variety of roles so that the audience gets to see different shades of me.

I think, like most actors, it's really exciting to be challenged.

I've done the glamour doll, song-and-dance routine, the works. I've reached a stage in my career where I'm ready to experiment.