Grace Park Quotes

I play so many weirdos in movies that it's nice to play an attractive woman.

I do keep getting these bad girl roles. The funny thing is that, honestly, I don't think I'm believable as these aristocratic mean girls. But I do love playing them.

Mum asks why I am so often cast in adulterous roles. I think it must be because I am fairly flirty.

You have to carry so many archetypes as an actor, especially as a blonde-haired, blue-eyed one.

If someone plays a brooding actor in a film, people think they're brooding all the time.

I never get the tall, blonde, glamorous roles because I'm not tall, blonde and glamorous. I'm more the wee, disturbing characters because of the way I look or sound.

A lot of film stars are just playing themselves in different frocks.

Did Anthony Hopkins really have to be a serial killer to be in 'Silence of the Lambs?,' I don't think so, no. It's called acting, people.

Once you don't smile on film, they say, 'Let's have that bloke who doesn't smile.'

It's my job in Hollywood to find roles where I get to be a character not a bathing suit.

I really enjoyed playing Freddie Cork. People are always scared to approach me because of the character I played in 'Brotherhood.' The writing was very smart.

I have played old ladies since I was 17 years old, and very convincingly. I've always looked funny and was too tall to play the leads and so had to play the grandmothers.

Well, I've always been a character actor, you know, and you always get your share of character actors who are bad guys. So it never surprises me. And if it's good writing, you can find your way into the part well enough.

Over a spell of about three years, I played a series of roles that were, for me, all very different, but most of them came out within a six-month period. They all dealt with a kind of dark territory that in some cases had been mined before in movies.

I didn't really look like a character actor, yet those were the roles I loved to play. If you were a character actor who didn't necessarily look like a character actor, you had to play bad guys.

I think you get the parts that people are comfortable with seeing you play.

Everyone thinks I am exactly like the characters I play.

It has happened with me that I get a role of a cop for a film. Few directors typecast you if you do that particular role well. But, it is the actor who has to decide whether he fits in that role or not.

I once literally had a casting director ask my agent, 'Can she play anything other than a drunk?'

For most of my career, I've played roles that were written for other actresses.

I play mostly bad guys on TV and mostly good guys in movies.

You've got to understand that in Bollywood, every actor is an instrument, and yet a human being. They come to the set with a set agenda, believing, 'This is who I am, this is what I want, and no, I am not going to become that character you want me to.'

Creating a character and living truthfully through her is a whole different ball game. It's all part of the same person but it's a much newer medium for me.

I think if you do something effectively whether you're the lover or the comic or the action guy or the villain like I play; movies are very expensive to make. Chances are you'll get asked to play that part again.

As an actor, you most often play relatively average parts, so to get to play extreme versions of anything, those are the most exciting parts.