Kirti Kulhari Quotes

I never played the 'decoration,' I always played the one who suffered. And then I got very lucky in my middle career, when I started playing the hero, which at that point was quite rare for women.

I've played a prostitute now three times. I don't know how it's come about that way. It's just a matter of me growing up.

At first I was always cast as the girlfriend. It was a long time before I got to play characters who were people.

People were confused by me, and at first I was auditioning a lot for the crazy characters or the victim, someone who'd been attacked. Which is great, because usually those are the best acting roles.

People say you get identified with a role, and you get stereotyped, but I haven't found that to be the case.

I wasn't, like, pretty enough to be the ingenue; I wasn't 'character' enough to be the goofball sidekick. I'm kind of ethnically ambiguous.

The thing is to convince people that a part not written for a Latina woman - or maybe not even written for a woman at all - is a female part. You convince them you can do it.

I've done bit parts on shows where I've been the fat girl or the punk rocker.

I don't want to be typecast as a heroine doing just glamorous roles.

I have played mother many times in south films. And I really have no problem with it.

Typecasting is something I have to be careful with, since I play myself on Geek & Sundry so much on my weekly show 'The Flog.' That's why I did 'Dragon Age: Redemption' last year, so I could do something a little more dramatic and hard-edged.

As an actor, you're always playing different people, so you yourself are always kind of going through an identity crisis.

I tend to play nurses and waitresses and policewomen.

I don't want to be the stupid blond. I want to be an actor.

When you're trying to look pretty, it's a lot easier to compare you to other people. I always felt intimidated in pilot season trying to audition for 'the girlfriend.' Whereas when it's like, 'you're auditioning for the part of this meth addict, trailer park whatever,' it's like, 'Great!'

It'd be very difficult to cast me as a ballet dancer. Everybody is, in some sense, controlled by their size and their gender. I'm not going to be allowed to play the part that Denzel Washington plays.

You know, just because you're a blonde type doesn't mean you can't suddenly do serious parts.

I do keep getting these bad girl roles. The funny thing is that, honestly, I don't think I'm believable as these aristocratic mean girls. But I do love playing them.

I hope I will not be typecast as a Bond girl for the rest of my life. I'm very proud of being a part of the Bond family, but I don't want to be the sexy girl forever. I'm not meaning to complain, but I just want to be taken seriously.

I really enjoyed playing Freddie Cork. People are always scared to approach me because of the character I played in 'Brotherhood.' The writing was very smart.

I don't really worry about being typecast much. I mean, everyone in Hollywood is typecast to a degree.

I play a lot of hard men and gangsters, and I'm not like that at all.

For me, the performance was always playing different people. And so when I got older, was no longer the romantic leading movie star, it became more and more interesting for me, the characters I played, you know?

All the roles I play, I don't see any of my roles in films that they're typically leading men.

My biggest challenge will be to play the totally submissive woman. It takes a toll on you when you play someone who's far removed from your personality.