Ali Larter Quotes

I've been in the fortunate position of playing these strong, snarky female characters since Dana Gordon on 'Entourage.'

I never really knew that I would be a lifer of strong female characters, but that seems to be the drops I'm being given, and I'm very happy for them. Hopefully, 'Divergent' will be the next thing.

I always play girls who are quite traumatised, or a plain girl, but I'm happy with that.

Sometimes people are like, 'Do you want to play strong women?' I don't have to play strong women in order to feel like a strong woman myself, but I do feel it's important to play characters that are complex and interesting and believable.

I've played quite a large spectrum of teenaged girls, from psychotic to very sweet to a polygamist.

I would love to be able to play some characters on television that are similar to some of the indie film roles I've done, that have been so close to my heart.

I hope it's not all I'll ever do, but I know I've played enigmatic characters. For me, the good characters are people who get places, are devious, are cunning and tricky and hard to pin down. Obviously, if you play one and you do an okay job of it, that'll be on people's minds.

I would love to play 'Wonder Woman'; I have the abilities and the strength because I am definitely not the typical Hollywood actress.

I'm really proud of the characters I've been able to play. Certainly, playing the character on 'CSI' as Dr. Sherman Hawkes is a wonderful stereotype-busting role.

I've been lucky to play characters that are really broad.

I want to keep playing strong female roles. I don't mean superheroes, but women who are really alive.

I was looking to show people I could act. I was looking for something that would take me away from the whole hunk riding off into the sunset thing that people wanted me to play after Brown Sugar.

I love doing serious movies for adults.

I really, really, really love my job, so it's not like I'm trying to quit wrestling to do movies. They just all seemed like cool things to do. I mean, I'd love to be the bad guy in an action movie because then people would get to see another side of me they don't get to see.

One of the things that we've tried to do with the 'Guardians' films is to allow the women to be full characters.

I am looking to play powerful characters and as far as biopics are concerned.

When you watch films, there are so many different types of characters you want to portray.

I definitely want to explore all different types of characters.

I have never planned my career. I chose those films with which I could relate myself. But if given a chance, I would love to do the kind of roles Meryl Streep has done.

Now that I am a part of the Hindi film industry, I hope I can do different roles with a lot of scope.

I'm just open to doing all different kinds of movies. I have a movie called Scout coming out and it's a coming of age story. [] I have a very small role in it, but it was really fun to make and really light, but I do want darker roles.

I'd like to act in Punjabi films and do some great roles instead of just dance sequences.

I really don't think I will do the dancing type of movies with 'jhatka-matkas' any more. Every actor goes through a phase, and so did I.

Be it TV, films, or stage, I love substantial roles. The length of the character doesn't matter, but if the character is well thought, then I have to grab it.

In films, maybe I was lost or typecast.