Disha Patani Quotes

I'm planning to have a career based on my acting skills rather than the size of my chest.

I think to be a good actor you need either a good experience of life or education, or both.

Mature roles full of substance the kind played by Robert De Niro and Al Pacino - my favourite actors - is what I want to do.

I have proved my skills as an actress who can perform both character and glamour roles and 'Uyir' would take me to greater heights.

I was in a movie called 'Flirting With Disaster' with Ben Stiller. I realized that I am really not a good actor and not something I wanted to pursue.

You know, I don't think you need to be educated to be a great actor.

Of course there are some models who are not good, but it has been proven that some models can act. Look at Kim Basinger, Sharon Stone or Andie MacDowell, who were all models - they are really fantastic actresses.

I never pretended to be a great actor.

Essentially, I'm a small-part actor who's been lucky enough to play leading roles for most of his life.

I was born a character actor.

I've always been fairly confident in my acting.

I want to show audiences I can act.

My dream role would be someone anything that Meryl Streep can do. 'Julia and Julia' - I thought that was beautiful. She just had the essence of her. To truly become someone, invoking emotions like happiness and sadness and everything in between, that's what I want to be able to do.

I really enjoy acting. I feel I'm getting better and better with each movie I make.

I'm not a leading man; I don't think I've got the face of a leading man, and I don't think, ever in my life, someone will cast me in the role of a leading man.

I've done one movie. And it's not a movie I want to stand on as far as acting ability goes. I mean, I'm not going to win an Oscar anytime soon. I'm not Meryl Streep.

In 'Rocky' and 'Paradise Alley,' my dad played very expressive characters, and he was out there.

Actors I admire? Ed Harris, or course, I think he's terrific; because I know he always had to fight being what he looked like a lot, but I think he's a terrific actor.

Whether that's an action film or a comedy or a drama or anything in between, I'm willing to prove that I can play with the big boys.

I would hate to be thrust into the middle of a big film and not deliver. There's young actors and they're put into these central roles and they're commanding armies - but they can't quite pull it off. I'd much rather do it in small steps and build it from there.

Being an actress is a very physical thing. If I didn't look the way I looked, I would never have started in films.

Harrison Ford - one of my favorite actors - has a wonderful sense of character and depth and uniqueness to him, yet he's able to just deliver the lines without putting any English on it.

Playing a plainer role means everything is dependent on the credentials of the actor, not the fact that they are as pretty as Julia Roberts. People start to look at their talent rather than their appearance. And playing the ugly part often means less time in the make-up chair, which is a great benefit on set.

Here's what I have at my advantage: I've never been a personality. I've always been a character actor.

I think any performing artist can do films, or, as a matter of fact, anybody out there in the street can be a film actor with no experience whatsoever if you've got a good director.