Priyamani Quotes

Most of the actresses I have worked with have started their career in South and then shifted to Bollywood.

I owe 40 per cent of my success to films from the south like 'Himmatwala,' 'Toofan,' 'Mawaali,' 'Maqsad,' Tamil and Telegu films such as 'Big Boss,' 'Apurva Shar,' 'Gangleader,' etc. I salute the south for contributing immensely to my success.

I have lot of respect of filmmakers who work in Telugu and Tamil.

I have been in a lot of movies, but none of them are critics' darlings, you might say.

From 'Polytechnique,' I started to get scripts and after 'Incendies,' of course, it exploded.

'The Last Seduction,' 'Sleepless in Seattle' and 'While You Were Sleeping' did a lot to get me noticed for bigger roles.

It was director Krishna Reddy who introduced me as a hero. All my films with him have been very successful.

Even when I had three Hindi films happening at the same time, Tamil and Telugu will always be an important industry considering I started my career there.

I am an actress. My first film was a Telugu film, my second film was Bollywood, and third was Indo-Chinese.

'Naa Ishtam' is my first commercial Telugu film. That was exciting.

Even after the Tamil 'Ghajini' became a superhit, I didn't go on a signing spree, though I was flooded with offers. I took my time before doing 'Pokkiri' and 'Dasavatharam.'

I made about 56 movies, I think. Not that many.

Every movie I've been in has ended up on television.

I was editing for Kunal Kapoor when I got my first film 'Jaan Tere Naam' as lead actor.

When I was filming 'The Outsiders,' my idea of success was getting the next Martin Scorsese movie.

I had starred in more than 30 successful films, six in a row directed by Cecil B. De Mille.

I'd say specifically after 'Get Smart,' people now know me either as The Guy from 'Get Smart' or 'She's Out of My League.' When that came out on DVD, everyone was recognizing me from that.

It's funny because when I got 'Jarhead' and 'Avatar' and all those movies, 'Leprechaun' still to this day airs on BET. I was thinking, 'Will they just let it go? I finally have a body of work that can speak much better to what I can do than just Leprechaun.'

My first film was a movie shot in 1974. I was 18 on that movie set. It was called 'Big Bad Mama.' I turned 19 on the next movie I worked on, which was a black 'Blazing Saddles.' I worked in the art department. It was called 'Darktown Strutters.'

I just lucked into this weird, little obscure cameoesque film career. I just love being a part of film history.

The reality is that I'm an actor from the Midwest and I was 40 movies into it before I started 'Entourage'.

I started in theater; I did theater in New York for 14 years before I even thought about doing movies - I never thought about being in a film; it just never occurred to me.

The first movie I had a featured role in was Parting Glances.

Because of 'The Birds' and 'Marnie' I was, as the expression goes, hot in Hollywood and producers and directors wanted to hire me.

I am not saying that I won't do big commercial films.