Kunal Khemu Quotes

I like doing character movies. I like doing movies about personal situations; that's what I love about dealing with things.

I've always done comedy, and I've always wanted to do a dramatic role. I wanted to be a sheriff.

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.'

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.

I'm just an actor. If it's drama, I add as much humour as the part will stand. And if it's a comedy, add as much drama as you can, so it balances out; you don't wanna be too serious.

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

I don't think the roles that I'm necessarily known for in this country are my best work, or even anywhere near it. I didn't think I was great in 'Arcadia.' I think it's a great part and a great play and had a lot of attention.

I don't want to be typecast as a heroine who does a certain kind of cinema, which is why I experiment with the types of films that I do. But yes, I won't deny that romantic love stories or romantic comedies are what I enjoy doing the most, because as an audience those are the kind of films that I like watching.

I'm a character actress.

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.'

I've played heavies for years and years and years. I was bald. I came to Hollywood. I did a play about junk. I was a pusher, so I played pushers for years and years and years. I did war movies and things like that.

I loved playing Chandler. I grew up playing that part.

I've played villains on stage - you know, the Iagos and so on - but I think of myself as a funny person. I mostly did comedies before I did TV work.

I'd played dumbasses a lot. On Mad About You, I played a very dumb waitress and they saw me.

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

Directors have been trying to get me to do comedy for a long time, ever since 'One Eight Seven.'

I guess a lot of people don't realise, but I'm always playing a character when I'm working. When you're always having people's images projected on you, who 'Daria' is as a person sort of disappears.

I try to bring my own style to a role, but I can't change how people think of me.

There are elements of me in the roles I've played in the past. But people forget that Mary Poppins was just a role, too.

Every character I've played is goofy, but it has to have some type of reality.

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.

I am looking to play powerful characters and as far as biopics are concerned.

I'm excited to play any character that is based in reality. And I'd be even more excited if I can add a comic element to my role.

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.