Payal Rohatgi Quotes

I definitely want to keep acting now. I've got all kinds of projects I want to do.

I give everything to my work, and I like complex roles, characters that aren't obvious. I've been very lucky so far, and I'm dreaming of working with directors like Jane Campion, Susanne Bier and the Dardennes. But the gods will decide.

People get on a show and they fought tooth and nail. Almost 95% of the actors out there want to be on a television series. Then as soon as they get onto one, no, no, I want to be a movie star. This television series stuff, no, no no.

I really think that everybody would like to be an actor. Why wouldn't they? It's great work if you can get it. The one thing that prevents most people from saying, 'I'm just gonna go to Hollywood!' is that it seems unrealistic.

I'd love to work in the States; I'd love to work anywhere where you get a good script and a good part to play. But I do love British film as well.

Being an actor in L.A. is like being in prison: you go, you serve your time, you try to replicate Johnny Depp's career - and then you move to Paris.

I don't put the pressure on myself to be a very successful movie star. I want to enjoy being an actor and I want to be challenged by the roles I take.

I'm what you call a good, old-fashioned working actor who has had delusions of grandeur for my entire career and has known what I want to do, but there's a lot going on out there. There are a lot fewer films being made, and there's a lot of competition.

I think every American actor wants to be a movie star. But I never wanted to do stupid movies, I wanted to do films.

I have no illusions of being the big box office draw. But I would like to have some choices.

When I go to where I was getting excellent parts in movies I may have taken a few too soon, too anxious to go back to work and to anxious to make another film and to succeed more.

Ideally, I'd like to go right back to getting $7 million a picture and being the headliner. That's probably not going to happen.

I couldn't imagine trying anything else besides acting. But I didn't know that to make it meant I'd be on a movie screen.

When I began my journey in films, I never thought I'd be playing the lead in my films and was keen to move ahead with roles that give me scope to act.

I'm not running about playing romantic leads. I don't know if that's a good or a bad thing, but it's the way it's sort of working out.

I know a Bollywood actress' tenure is limited.

I think most actors don't start out wanting to be either a lead or a character actor. You just really want to work, whatever manifestation that takes.

I am waiting for roles like the one in 'Yeh Hai Jalwa.'

I do good work in Pakistan. I am an A-lister actor. So, even in Bollywood I want to work with an A-lister.

One thing is a fairly simple and straightforward thing. I don't long to direct. I really want to get some good parts.

It's not like you do 'SNL' and then get handed movie roles. You work, you audition for stuff and try to get it. I think, a lot of people, it's the goal to be in movies or just to be working in general. But yeah, some of us get lucky and get some movie roles, and it's nice.

I would be daft to say I wouldn't like to try Hollywood. But my main dream is to keep working. Keep loving what I am doing.

I think it would be amazing to be a character actor and still be a lead now and then in movies.

It makes me forget that I'm not going to be a major star and lead female in films whether it was 20 years ago, 10 years ago, five or in the future.

I would recommend going out for more independent films. You can get bigger roles and really work your acting chops and build a reel.