Bobby Deol Quotes

As an actor, of course, you want to be in something that's successful.

If you are a successful actor, which is what I am, then you tend to get labelled very quickly and easily.

I think there are always actor parts, and then there are movie-star parts, and an actor's always an actor until he does a movie-star part.

If your film and character are a hit, chances are you'll get typecast in that space.

The image of an actor plays a huge role in deciding if he or she can experiment with roles.

With acting, there is a level of anonymity which is conducive to your profession. There are examples of very public people who are on the cover of every celebrity magazine but can't open a film.

Honestly, working with Eddie Murphy was mind-blowing just in terms of the budget alone. To see the respect he commands, to witness his presence, you understand why he and people like Martin Lawrence are stars.

In England or America, actors do not have to cater to an image. In India, it is almost demanded of us. Very seldom do you get a film where you can walk away from your image.

I didn't know box office was a thing you could possess but I don't have it. I go up for lovely roles and people with this nebulous thing called box office get them so there isn't much I can do about that unless you know where I can get some box-office myself!

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 think people want to watch me in films, and that's why filmmakers want to work with me and tell stories.

I would love to work with Alia Bhatt. I think she is very talented and has been really good in all her films.

'Kahaani' gave me popularity and 'Gangs of Wasseypur' stardom.

I know a Bollywood actress' tenure is limited.

All my cop/gangster dramas have been spaced out, but somewhere, the films in which I played the bad guy were extremely successful, so people are under the impression that I play only such roles. I call it selective amnesia.

All the top stars like Aamir Khan, Shah Rukh, etc. do very few films a year and I don't think it's affected their visibility or fan following in any way.

I didn't want to take the typical action roles that everybody was expecting me to take, because I was going to get typecast as that guy, the action guy who didn't have anything really bright to say and who just kicked in doors and punched people in the face and shot people and drove off in a cool car. I didn't want to be that guy.

I mean, there's obviously only one Leo [DiCaprio] but I look at guys like Mark Wahlberg and Tom Cruise and think I'd like to have that type of career... that would be really great if I could have that.

You can't ignore the system and the power you acquire as an actor if you're in films that are successful.

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 rather be called a character actor than a star.

The cult of celebrity turned me off, and when the opportunities came along for me to play different characters, that's what I went for rather than the safe choices.

If someone plays a brooding actor in a film, people think they're brooding all the time.

I was never the ingenue or the pretty girlfriend of Tom Cruise in a movie. I didn't have that career, so I don't have to compete on that level.

If you are the kind of guy who draws in 100 million people to see his film, you've got every right to be paid accordingly, but I qualify as a character actor. I don't put a bum on a seat.