Kajal Aggarwal Quotes

I only want to be a versatile actor.

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

I've been getting diverse roles.

I hope I have quite a few great roles to come.

I've been fortunate because I got the gift to do comedy and drama. When you can do both, you get twice as many parts as anyone else.

I've never landed in a series that I could have dreamt in my life. That's why, when people say, 'Well what are roles you're dying to play?' I say, I don't even have such a list, because everything that's ever been great that I had a shot at came completely out of the blue. I could not have predicted it.

I don't think you can discriminate against budgets, you know? I'm an actor, I guess, so I'm just trying to play as many characters as I can. If there's a character I think I can play, and they're going to let me do it, I'll do it whether it's $10 or $1 million or more.

I'm at least getting my foot in the door as far as doing straight dramatic parts, which no one would have ever considered me for in the '80s. I never objected to that because I love doing comedy, and I'm not the kind of actor that insists that unless you're doing a serious dramatic role, you're not acting.

What's great about being a character actor is you know that you can survive forever. It's not about the gloss of your eyebrows.

I think any actor hopes to have variety and range in what they do. Everybody has a certain range, so you take on roles to expand that the best you can... See things a little differently and whatnot.

I got better as an actor, and still I'm getting better. That's only been possible because there's always been work.

I feel that I have grown so much as an actor being on 'Homeland.'

I have been fortunate to experience a wide range of characters. What more can an actor ask for?

I'm an actor and it happened to go my way that day.

I do all kinds of roles - nerd, psycho, nerd, psycho, nerd, psycho - and occasionally someone kind of normal. It's weird, when I lived in Austin I was always cast as pretty normal people. But when I moved to Los Angeles I was immediately branded a psycho.

Acting for the Indian audience is surely on my bucket list; it may take some time, though.

The 12 years that I was improvising are why I got the number of commercials I got when I was in New York and why I got 'The Devil Wears Prada,' and it's why I even got in the door for 'Mad Men.'

I want to do films that challenge me. I want to do what the actors I look up to are doing - the Gary Oldmans and Daniel Day-Lewises.

I don't think it's a bad thing to go out there and challenge yourself as an actor.

I have my character actor side as a kid and my more leading man side. It's all been beneficial.

My main goal, when I started acting, was to show as much versatility as possible because I like playing diverse roles.

I'm a character actor at heart.

The idea of an actor is that you should be able to play anything.

Acting-wise, I've had all these experiences. Yet when I look at certain people whose careers I admire, they've gotten to play so many different characters.

You see a script, and you say, 'Oh, I can play the heck out of that,' talk to your agent, and he says they don't want to see you. That's heartbreaking.