Divyanka Tripathi Quotes

I think every leading man wants to be a character actor, and every character actor wants to be a leading man.

You're in everyone's homes every week as this character, and they feel like they know you, and then they start to really define you as this character that you portray.

My ambition is to become one of those actresses that is like a chameleon that you don't recognize.

I'm looking forward to becoming a marvelous - excuse the word marvelous - character actress. like Marie Dressler, like Will Rogers.

Prior to 'The Karate Kid', I did commercials - Kool-Aid, Pepsi, milk - and I had always been cast as the all-American nice guy.

I don't want to be known for anything other than the fact that I play characters in movies.

Look, I'm not odd. I'm just trying to be an actor; not a movie star, an actor.

One of the difficulties you run into is that acting and celebrity are so closely intertwined. People make careers out of being charismatic personalities. It's one of those things that people have come to expect from actors. Personalities that don't change from role to role. I don't want it that way.

It is a nice feeling when the audience reaches out to me by my character names from the films that I have done.

As an actor, I am extremely fortunate to portray Milkha Singh on the big screen.

There are actors who don't get out of their Barbie Doll avatars, but that's not who I am.

I believe I am a character actor who likes to hide behind my characters.

I am very happy that in the second year of my acting career in Bollywood I got to do a biopic.

Every time I do a film, I have to make sure that when someone looks at me, they can't recognise Disha. It has to be a character. I want to do strong roles.

If I get a call from Imtiaz Ali or Zoya Akhtar to star in their films, I won't think twice.

I'd love to do something totally different on TV like a period drama, but if I did go back to soap acting, then it would have to be with 'EastEnders.' I just couldn't go anywhere else.

I never really thought I would be a Bollywood actress. However, I am a drama queen at home, so I guess Bollywood was bound to happen someday or the other.

It was only in 'Khadgam' that I learnt to project myself and carry off an image of a celebrity, which is very different from what I am in real life.

In fact, I just play a glamour doll in 'Vijayendra Varma,' for the first time in my career.

For me, as an actor, going from TV to film was interesting because TV and film are two very different things.

If a show comes and the content is great, I would never say no to acting on TV.

Despite what people say about my major film roles, I'm not a dull or monotonous woman searching for self-identity.

'Sanam Teri Kasam' wasn't the first Bollywood project offered to me. I was offered other projects with more established actors, but I always knew that I could easily be seen as just eye-candy.

Like a lot of girls, even I have this dream of being in the movies, and like any actor, I need to grow.

When I'm acting in TV or movies, I'm a character. But when I'm doing music, I'm Trevor Jackson.