Jackie Shroff Quotes

I tend to land roles that are somewhat villainous for some reason. Usually, people blame it on the accent.

I generally play villains once every three or four years by choice because I get offered villainous roles a lot, because of the way I look and whatever. And I tend to avoid them because I think you can end up in a cul-de-sac of your own making if you're cast in that.

A lot of people only see me as villains.

I keep getting cast as this bad guy, and I don't know why.

I think it's pretty crazy to say you've been typecast at the age of 20 before you've even really started getting going.

No one ever let me be a bad guy once I started working more frequently after I got out of college and started pursuing acting. I just got all of the good-guy roles because if I walk in the room, not a lot of people believe me as a bad guy.

One of the things that I found very confronting in my early working life was that people thought I was some sensitive doe-eyed lovelorn boy, because they'd seen me do that a couple of times. What tends to happen is you get a run of similar roles.

I got pigeonholed a bit. When I wanted to be an actress, I never wanted to be the kind of actress I became.

I can't get the serious roles. People don't see me that way.

What actually happened with 'Miracle' was that someone saw me in 'Jurassic Park' and said, 'We want someone with a white beard - how about him?' I've got a round face, white hair, a white beard. I can wear half-moon glasses and waddle a little, cope with a cane, raise my hat.

For years, they cast me in these dumb straight roles of businessmen in three-piece suits.

All my cop/gangster dramas have been spaced out, but somewhere, the films in which I played the bad guy were extremely successful, so people are under the impression that I play only such roles. I call it selective amnesia.

I think of myself as a fairly decent human being and it gives me great pain to be considered for all the mean S.O.B.s that come along. I've played bird decapitators, puppy stranglers, woman beaters, wife poisoners, child molesters - every goddamn thing you can think of. It was quite scene there for a while. But I think the image is changing...I hope to God the old image is fading from people's minds.

When you're a large black man in Hollywood, the obvious stereotype is one of force and menace.

I was victimized by the old Hollywood typecasting thing. I had to really fight to get out of it, so I was uncomfortable with it.

People have been afraid of me because of the parts I played. Nobody remembers that I was the dad in 'Free Willy.'

You do something, like, something like 'Psych' for long enough, it's tough to shake up people's preconceptions of who you are as a performer.

I hate when people say models don't have personalities; what does that even mean? Everyone has a personality.

I know what people think I am. People think I'm dumb. People think I party all the time. People think I'm ignorant.

I play characters that allow me to do lot more than just be a glamorous heroine.

I was so irritated that people in Denmark considered me to be this serious guy who only did dramatic roles.

It's better to play negative lead roles than portray just any other character on the show.

There never were any roles for my kind of acting. That's the story of my life.

If you see my filmography, I have mostly done non-glamorous roles.

I didn't come up in a culture or society that looked on me as a movie star. I was the bad guy. I was fortunate enough to be cast in some roles that weren't bad, were positive.