Robert Pattinson Quotes

I don't have one specific dream role: I'm an actor, so I want to play everything. In this business, they'll pigeonhole you in two seconds if you're great at the role you play. Everyone assumes that you're really just like that character.

Sometimes in Brazil, I work harder to make characters different and believable and to overcome the persona I have.

People often think I've played the villain more times than I have.

I don't get offered many dramatic roles. As soon as my face pops up in a movie, everyone knows I'm the funny guy.

I started out in the 1970s doing the Wife, the Bimbo, and the Ditz, and if I somehow get a serious role, they all wanna know the same thing: When are you going back to comedy?

People have been afraid of me because of the parts I played. Nobody remembers that I was the dad in 'Free Willy.'

I would tell people my dad was all the characters he's played in movies, because once you say he's a lawyer or something, they move on.

It was only in 'Khadgam' that I learnt to project myself and carry off an image of a celebrity, which is very different from what I am in real life.

There are actors who don't get out of their Barbie Doll avatars, but that's not who I am.

I have people tell me all the time, 'I was expecting you to be mean.' Why is that? Because you saw me in a movie? That's acting.

In films, maybe I was lost or typecast.

I play mostly bad guys on TV and mostly good guys in movies.

I suppose there are actors who are worried about their public image. But I've never had any trouble playing unpleasant characters. It is only a part. Which is why you do it -because you are interested in exploring something you never could or would be.

An actor is only merchandise.

I think any actor in their right mind is afraid of getting pigeonholed.

I look at being an actress as being like a mummy: You're bandaged up and preserved as soon as you start making other people money.

I like wearing beautiful clothes, but that does not translate into my work. People don't like to see me as a glam doll in my movies. My audience and the media love me with two different perceptions. It's a strange, crazy situation.

I was always a character actor. I just looked like Little Red Riding Hood.

And lot of Asian audiences and reporters don't like me to act as a bad guy. But I think I want to become an actor, I want to try different way.

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 want to prove to people that I'm an actor and not just a character.

I've made the transition from star to character actor and I'm thoroughly enjoying it.

I think being on a TV show is amazing but also, people get kind of used to seeing you a certain way and so it becomes a challenge to break free from that in a way.

With any show, when fans come up to you, they assume you're just like your character.

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