Hansika Motwani Quotes

I do come shackled with whatever people think I am.

When you hit 30, people have got this perception that you're past it, and I really disagree with that.

I'll have that inscribed on my damn grave. I still get stopped for being Lois Lane, and I'm 60 and have two grandchildren. So it's kind of weird.

Hollywood is not good when it comes to age.

People called me a hoodlum and a thug. But they didn't tell you I was a carpenter, an architect, a stand-up comic - even a bartender. And a barbecue cook. But they didn't tell you that.

I understand people have preconceived notions of who I am or what I do.

I am so stereotyped into being this Hollywood girl.

When you grow up with a name like Brad Thor, people expect you to be 6-foot-4 and a pile of muscles.

The hard part for me was being an Olympic gold medalist and having that persona; you don't see too many Olympic gold medalists go into acting. It's actually even more difficult. You're not taken very seriously, and you're looked at in a different light, so it was kind of hard for me to go straight from Olympics into acting.

When people meet me, many times they're very surprised because they expect someone who is kind of wacky with seven piercings and very hip and cool and New York City, and I'm not.

I've always been told I had an old face. So when I was in my 20s, I never got to play a teenager.

I'm a mixed race lad from Liverpool. I get to play a lot of hard characters, and some people perceive that's what I'm like, but it's great for me 'cos they're always the most interesting characters.

I definitely don't look my age. So I actively look for roles that will help people change their perception of me.

A friend of mine said, no matter what I do I always look like an English teacher. She actually said, you still look like a Campbell's Soup kid.

People wanted me to be like the Madonna, the white nun, you know, and that's not me. But I'm no villain.

I am who I am. I have a low voice, and I look like somebody's dad or boss or a police chief, and those roles come my way.

Whether you're a dwarf, whether you're a midget, it's all branding.

You don't actually have control of the position people want you to be in. If they say, 'You king of the blacks,' you're king of the blacks - whether you like it or not.

I don't want to shut the door and only be thought of as the dark girl.

Because of my grey hair and glasses, people think I'm Phil Donahue.

What's with the whole 'child actor' and 'teen actor' thing? You're either an actor or actress, or you're not. I don't get it! I want to be taken seriously as an actor.

No one can believe I might have a brain. Because I'm really tall, I'm really blonde, I have big muscles, and kill people for a living. There you go. If anybody's going to be assumed to be stupid, it's me. I don't know what my IQ score is, but I did study for five years at college. And I'm proud of my chemical engineering degree. I haven't done anything with it, but it's a card up your sleeve for later in life. It's nice to have, just in case.

I kept trying to tell people that just because I was young didn't mean I could speak for all young people.

Boyhood proves that there's still good roles for women over 40, as long as you get hired when you're under 40.

If you put a label on yourself, people will pigeonhole you.