Aishwarya Rajesh Quotes

I'm very instinctive when I choose my roles, and usually, the number one thing has to be the director.

It doesn't matter about the length of the role. I don't do films for the number of scenes. I go for the quality of my character in the film and the impact that I will have.

Everybody reads for me. I was never weird about that. I never minded coming in and reading. They should know if I'm the right person, and I should know if I want to do a movie.

I've been asked to do action-oriented movies in the past and they just haven't been right for me.

I'd much rather turn down a starring role in a bad picture and do a small role in a very good picture.

With 'Idol' it's kind of just like 'OK, here's this competition - I need to do better than somebody else.'

I never look at the size of the film when I'm looking for a part.

I wouldn't say I'm drawn to dark roles, and it's not like I pick and choose.

I love to star in movies, but I want to have good roles. It doesn't help to get starring roles in something that's no good. I mean, that will just kill you.

I think people assume I only do light things because of the movies that are like 'Hairspray' and 'John Tucker Must Die.' But I think it's all just based on material that I really like and that speaks to me.

For too long the federal government has measured quantity, not quality: What it puts in rather than what it gets out.

The first man put at the helm will be a good one. Nobody knows what sort may come afterward.

I don't believe you name a starter until the starter wins the team.

I have the same criteria for choosing roles as I have always had: fantastic writing and complicated characters.

What I admire about Ranbir is his choice of films. Sometimes he will be bad; sometimes he will be good.

When I am offered a film, I don't ask whether I will be singing any of the movie's tracks.

The first and foremost criterion for me when selecting a film is the character I am playing, and then the director.

As an actress, all I can do is choose from the films I am offered.

I don't mind doing genre roles as long as they offer me something substantial.

A good deal of my effort goes into the selection of films, because these things cannot be just predicted, so I am careful about the movies I finally do. Next year, too, I will have four or five films where I play different roles.

'Hotel For Dogs' was fun for my family, but it was kind of hard to get in the audition room for 'Jennifer's Body' after that, you know? But I think the roles find me, in a way.

I enjoyed all my films equally. I have loved working in all the movies which I signed. Whenever I used to like the script and the director only then I would say yes for the movie otherwise it was a complete no.

If I get a good character, a suitable role, a good producer-director, only then will I do a film.

I don't plan or schedule my career thinking first I will play a common man, then a police officer, then a superhero. I love good scripts, and I don't care if I play the main part in it or not. I want to be a part of good films. That's my dream... 'Jacobinte Swargarajyam' was that film for me.

It's important to keep auditioning. If you're auditioning for something, you're auditioning for a role that people can't see you in and you need to convince them that you're the right person.