Kalki Koechlin Quotes

Now I don't want to feel cornered as an actor, because I've got a wider range than that.

'Pigeonholed' isn't the right word, because I feel like I've had a very wide range of characters that I've been allowed to play.

I don't think that because l'm a composer I only have to compose music.

I don't like to limit myself as an actress.

I do not want myself to be restricted to a pigeonholed kind of filmmaker.

I want to do films in as many genres - action, fantasy, period, classic love stories - as I can. I don't want to pigeon-hole myself.

One of my favorite actors is Javier Bardem, he always challenges his previous roles, and basically does the unexpected.

I try not to get trapped in any one musical or visual style at all.

Being typecast is the enemy of any actor, so if you can try to do something that flips on the head peoples' ideas of who you are or what you can do, that's my biggest aim.

The genres are widening. I don't think that there's as many limitations on the kinds of projects that actors can do as there once was.

I could have been on a path that led to different, more traditional teen romance, and 'Nip/Tuck' shook me loose from any generalization I might have been forced into. It helped me understand I wanted to take on things that were edgier, more challenging and riskier.

I want to work with a wide range of genres because it gives each film a different cinematic energy.

I think anything I do will have an island feel, but I don't want it to be just that; I don't want to be put in a box.

One of the things I've tried to do in my career is really write different kinds of books, so I'm able to broaden people's expectations of what I'm allowed to do.

I just hate to be in one corner. I hate to be put as only a guitar player, or either only as a songwriter, or only as a tap dancer. I like to move around.

Every actor wants to break out of the box that they put you in and that's where I'm heading, out of the box as fast as I can.

It gives me more breadth as an actor and as an artist to not be pigeonholed.

I'm interested in doing movies I wouldn't normally be interested in doing.

Sometimes they try to put you inside a box, but I look at my filmography and I've been able to do a lot.

I don't like being pigeonholed at all. It stemmed from after 'Mandy Lane': I was being offered all these horror movies. I love horror movies, but when I dreamed of being a director, it was always doing all sorts of things.

I always want people to expect the unexpected, to hear me in records that have nothing to do with bachata. 'Golden' is the golden opportunity for them to appreciate me on other records.

Yes, you want to do studio movies, but I also want to grow as an actor, and an actress like me is not going to get roles where you grow and evolve in a studio film. It's just not gonna happen.

I've always been drawn to all sorts of genres and all sorts of voices.

Being an actress, I want to play people that are not like me or the characters I've previously played. It's easier to get roles if you play a certain type of character but I don't want to do that.

What I like is finding new angles on genres.