Parineeti Chopra Quotes

I was never interested in being a rock star. I always wanted to be Boris Karloff.

I was never the ingenue or the pretty girlfriend of Tom Cruise in a movie. I didn't have that career, so I don't have to compete on that level.

It makes me forget that I'm not going to be a major star and lead female in films whether it was 20 years ago, 10 years ago, five or in the future.

I found my niche as a character actor, and I've never felt like a movie star or teen idol and never wanted to.

I didn't picture myself as a movie actress. I began to think about it around college. I remember thinking, 'Well somebody has to be in them,' so maybe I could do that eventually. It's all been a surprise.

When I initially started acting, all I wanted to do was to be in one movie. That's it. That was my goal.

I left 'Law and Order' because I really honestly did want to do movies and did want to be a movie star since I was a little girl.

I didn't really think of Hollywood or doing an action movie just because it was not something that I had in mind or that I thought was possible.

For Ananya, It's Bollywood all the way. She was obsessed about it, I thought there was something wrong with her. She was good at academics, so I thought she would become a doctor like my both parents. But, when she got to class VI or so I knew she would be an actress.

When we did 'Ashta Chamma,' I never thought people will pay money to watch me on screen. I never took myself seriously back then.

I was 12 when I decided that I wanted to see myself on the big screen.

If you had asked me back in grade school what I wanted to be when I grew up, I would have said my first choice was an actor, but if I couldn't be that, I'd want to be a superhero.

I really think that everybody would like to be an actor. Why wouldn't they? It's great work if you can get it. The one thing that prevents most people from saying, 'I'm just gonna go to Hollywood!' is that it seems unrealistic.

I think I did have fantasies about being an actor. In fact, I know I did.

George Clooney had the web of celebrity from television and doing 'ER,' and he's able to parlay that into films. God willing, I'll be up there in a few years.

I didn't start out to be a movie star. I started out to be an actor.

I don't want to say, 'I want to be in Hollywood,' like so many actors do, but I know that Hollywood is still making good movies, and I'd like to be part of that someday.

Isn't that the definition of a star? Someone who can get a film made?

When I got 'Family Ties', I wasn't even thinking about being an actress. I thought I might become a window dresser.

I'd love to do a romantic comedy. And perhaps, if the character was right and I had a good gut instinct, a Bollywood movie. And I'd love to direct. One day. I'm learning a lot on the set of 'The Good Wife.'

I am going to be the next Ryan Gosling.

I'm not going to be the next Colin Farrell or Orlando Bloom.

It doesn't mean I'm not interested in Hollywood. I like the way it operates; I like the people who are involved and the sense of possibility. But if I ever get back in, it's not going to be as an actress.

Police work was fascinating, and I didn't imagine that acting was something a kid from San Mateo, California, could really pursue.

I wanted to be Dustin Hoffman or Robert De Niro or Al Pacino. I thought I was going to be a dramatic actor, but comedy sort of started out first, and I was like, 'Maybe I'll find some more drama later on in my career.'