Amruta Khanvilkar Quotes

I gravitate to the roles, not necessarily television or film. It's just the fact that, for me, the most interesting roles have been in television.

I really enjoy playing intelligent characters. I'm more interested in that than just emotional kind of Mum characters.

I play characters that allow me to do lot more than just be a glamorous heroine.

I don't choose characters according to looks. I'm comfortable doing both glamorous and non-glamorous roles.

If someone comes with an interesting script where the negative role suits me, I will definitely take it up.

I need to react to a script, to feel strongly about it in some way. And I need it to be a complex character for sure. And also, I think a lot about what kind of audience there is for the film, what they're looking for and ways to connect with them in the playing of a character.

As an actor, you most often play relatively average parts, so to get to play extreme versions of anything, those are the most exciting parts.

I want to play a variety of different characters in different genres of film.

They did cast me as an ingenue once, and the novelty was nice. But I said, 'There is nothing here to play!' I really like getting into the meat of a role.

On the stage you develop a character that's different from yourself. In a film they're always saying, 'Walk over here. Say this line. Be you.'

I try to get roles that challenge me in what I can do and who I think I can portray. For me, it's about creating characters with really fascinating stories, because that's what I like to watch on TV.

I like flawed characters very much. A lot of times I get asked to do parts that are kind of small but key - three-scene roles that are three kick-ass scenes. Growing up, watching as many movies as I did, I was always into character actors like that.

When you get to set, you don't try to play the plot; you just play the character.

Every character is challenging because, at the end of the day, you have to make something out of it.

Being an actor, I have no issues with a character being negative or positive as long as the role is substantial and meaty.

I go by the content of the script and not the length of the role.

It has happened with me that I get a role of a cop for a film. Few directors typecast you if you do that particular role well. But, it is the actor who has to decide whether he fits in that role or not.

As far as films are concerned, I would take up only those roles which are challenging and have some substance in them.

As an actor, I always feel that each and every character in my films has to be distinct. The character Thilak that I play in 'Kavan' will be one such unique role in my career.

Well, my favorite roles so far are Lucas and Lost Boys.

My only job as an actor is to try and understand the character and, to the best of my ability, bring this character to life.

I never really thought about what characters I play. I always just wanted different characters.

Being an actor myself I realize that all actors believe they are qualified to play any role. If you showed me a script with a black woman character I would tell you that I could do it. That is what we do. We act as if we are someone else.

I feel I should never do passive characters. They don't work for me.

As an actor, one's role is very much to respond and react to the situation within the context of the character and his world.