Fawad Khan Quotes

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.

Almost every script that I've gotten has been for sort of the generic Hollywood type. I haven't chosen them. All the ones I have chosen are because I've been fascinated with the source material or because of the script.

Ideally, that's what you've got in an acting career is an equal number of dramas and comedies and an equal number of small films and big films.

I believe that the difference in genre of movies is a small thing.

What I admire about Ranbir is his choice of films. Sometimes he will be bad; sometimes he will be good.

There is a perception that I do certain kind of films. That's not true. I am open to any good scripts with a good role.

I pick up what is offered to me. And if somebody is not offering me the right role and right film then I am not going to choose.

The choice of films I make is directly proportional to the kind of cinema I have grew up watching.

I want to balance commercial and off-beat roles.

A good deal of my effort goes into the selection of films, because these things cannot be just predicted, so I am careful about the movies I finally do. Next year, too, I will have four or five films where I play different roles.

I am very conscious about picking my roles and make sure that they are different.

I've never consciously chased a particular kind of a film or role. I choose from what is offered.

Actresses do glamorous roles, and then, after 10 films, they do an offbeat one. But Alia didn't do that. She picked films like 'Highway' and 'Udta Punjab,' too.

I think if you're talented and not desperate to do any film that comes your way, and are doing justice to all your roles, then you're fine, because you can't predict the rest. You also can't predict the audience's reaction.

I don't want to be picky and say that I only want to do films.

I don't understand indie films. So, I won't do such films.

All I'm doing is being in films that I would watch if I wasn't in this industry.

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 am ably balancing big and small films. With every big film I do, I try to take up films that are high on content and small on budget.

I think that a lot of the time I don't go for something in particular. I see what comes to me, I filter it out. I never really strive to play a particular character or do a particular genre of film. As long as it's a good script and a great range of people and my character is really interesting I can't see any reason not to do it.

What kind of role do you play after someone like Stringer, you know what I mean? You play another gangster. What’s the point of that? I’ve played the gangster. I try to keep it really varied; it just makes for more of a fun and interesting career.

I think that's why I gravitated toward slightly broader... ummm, more conceptual kinds of movies, Underworld and Van Helsing. That was as much as I could actually give. But you're actually more of an animated figure. It does go against the grain, as an actor.

I stopped asking a long time ago, "why would you want me to play that?" I'm an actor. That's what I do.

I've never taken a role where I don't like a person on the page.

I'm pretty fortunate that I'm in the films I'm in largely because the directors have asked me to be in them. I'd love to do more of them, but the writing and historical stuff I'll probably always do.