Nushrat Bharucha Quotes

I've had some marvelous parts, but I'm also asked to play characters who are kind of superficial people.

For me, the performance was always playing different people. And so when I got older, was no longer the romantic leading movie star, it became more and more interesting for me, the characters I played, you know?

I played a real nasty little girl but most of the roles I had up until then were very sweet and very nice.

There is nothing better than playing a bad girl for two months, then turning around and playing someone sweet. Films give you this opportunity.

I always knew I'd be more of a character actor than a leading man, and I always wanted to take that and run with it.

I've played heavy characters in my first two films.

My first four roles were all nice guys, Raggedy Man being one of them.

I like playing a variety of characters. I feel like I've been able to play different kinds of characters - I've done a lot of period pieces - but I've never had to play the same type of character too much.

I think the buzz of acting is playing people different to you, and for me, that means traversing all genres.

I would quite like to do a different accent or play something so different from myself because Olivia, the character I play in this film, is similar to me.

I want to play a variety of different characters in different genres of film.

I've been lucky to play characters that are really broad.

I'm an actor and I've created a lasting and memorable character named Frasier, who is not me, but who most people think is. So when I have a chance to play something that's different, I embrace it because it's fun; also in this case, he's a memorable character.

Playing good girls in the 30s was difficult, when the fad was to play bad girls. Actually I think playing bad girls is a bore; I have always had more luck with good girl roles because they require more from an actress.

I try to bring elements of my own personality to every character I've played, but I think I'm pretty similar to the character I'm playing now. The biggest departure would have to have been Freaks and Geeks Sara, who was this sort of subordinate and shy girl.

They did cast me as an ingenue once, and the novelty was nice. But I said, 'There is nothing here to play!' I really like getting into the meat of a role.

I'd been trying for a while to get parts that weren't just the English bad guy, so it was quite refreshing to be playing someone who was a compassionate, decent guy.

When you're a young actor you like to go for characters with a bit of flair, so in many films I ended up playing the weirdos. I can assure you I'm not a psycho or a criminal or a bully.

In many films, as many different characters, I've killed many different people.

I'm a character actress. It doesn't mean I can't do leading roles; I don't think of myself as a leading lady.

When you watch it, you're like, Wow. I look like that. But it doesn't feel like that at all. It was about communicating with Gale Harold and getting across what I wanted to say about the character.

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.

Actors like to play bad guys because they're more fun. They also win more awards.

There's two types of character actors. There's character actors who play all different characters. Or there's actors who always play the same part; they're just a bit funny-looking.

We play many emotions in our careers, emotions that in real life we would perform just once. For example, my character has died in about 10 films, so you have to keep searching for different ways to do it!