Mariella Frostrup Quotes

Bollywood has not utilised my potential! But unfortunately, we can't plan and have things our way.

I'm just this committed dilettante. I think what I've found is that I've tried to do a lot of different things in my life and discovered I'm not as good at them as I'd want to be.

I've had some ambivalent feelings about being an actor. I don't know that I've ever been totally and completely comfortable with it.

It's up to the actor to make sure they don't get typecast.

Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations.

If you have a Stradivarius and nobody to play it, it's just a Stradivarius. Or is it even that? It's nothing.

I hate being out of work!

I do so many roles, I can't be typecast.

We went through ten years of the Limp Bizkit thing, and I didn't know what to do.

I think people are always like, 'She's a model-turned-actress.' And I don't want to turn actress. I want to do both. I wouldn't have built the confidence to do acting if I didn't model.

He was one of those men who possess almost every gift, except the gift of the power to use them.

It is bitter to think of one's best years disappearing in this unpolished country.

You know you have more to offer, and it gets frustrating when you aren't given the chance.

When I was on 'The Big Gay Sketch Show' I thought, 'Well, this is going well now, but then when it's over I'll just be a barista.'

It sounds so dramatic, but I'll say it: Hollywood just doesn't know what to do with me. And it's not for lack of trying.

I almost get annoyed at the fact that I'm not going to use all that I got.

Being a fringe player is not the role I want.

There never were any roles for my kind of acting. That's the story of my life.

I'm not good at anything! I can do, like, two voices.

Balotelli, and a few others, have everything that I would have liked to have. It angers me that he does not use his talent to his full advantage.

I'm so lucky in my life, but I'm so unlucky in my abilities. I love art so much, but I'm unable to produce it. I can't even draw a dog that doesn't look like a horse.

The day Metallica's over, i'm not going to put an ad looking for another band. I'll put my drumsticks on the shelf and there's 14 other things I wanna try. Metallica's the only band I've ever been and it's the only I ever wanna be in.

I'm always going to be a singer.

That's happened a couple times: Billy Joel. It was just, "You sound like Billy Joel." And I get really upset about that. No offense to that guy, but it's not for me.

Ask Nureyev to stop dancing, ask Sinatra to stop singing, then you can ask me to stop playing.