Vishwajeet Pradhan Quotes

As an actor, you don't want to be typecast, because Hollywood is so quick to put you in things that you've succeeded in before.

I've never cared for the character I generally played in films.

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.

At this point, I'm happy to be part of something special. As an actor I liked to choose scripts that I'm passionate about.

I had done my first picture and I didn't have anything to do for awhile. I was asked to come back to New York and do Bus Stop in the role of the cowboy opposite Kim Stanley.

As an actor, you get hired to repeat yourself. It wears you out.

The frustrating part of being a movie actor is waiting in your trailer to do two takes of a scene you've prepared for two months.

My very first audition was for 'Hot Girl #1' in some movie.

All the roles I play, I don't see any of my roles in films that they're typically leading men.

At this point in my career, it doesn't bother me much that I'm probably hopelessly typecast. I like to work, and horror films definitely keep me working.

I always seem to get parts where I play the sports professional - and that's not me at all!

Filming 'Bad Santa' was really where I learned everything that I knew at that point about movies. That was really the first big thing that I had done.

I knew I wasn't going to be any great shakes as an actor - the way I looked, I would play the soda jerk or the friend of a friend.

As an actor, we have to be so vulnerable that it's really hard to involve yourself with the other aspects of filmmaking.

The problem with the film industry is that once one starts out as a villain, subsequent offers are those of similar roles.

As a character actor, you go out for all different kinds of things.

I want to do more movies, more adult roles.

I think sometimes actors who have predominately done comedy get a little typecast by some people.

There's a lot of pressure being an actor and taking on challenges that people don't expect of you.

Every time I do a film, I have to make sure that when someone looks at me, they can't recognise Disha. It has to be a character. I want to do strong roles.

In fact, I just play a glamour doll in 'Vijayendra Varma,' for the first time in my career.

I always felt that, as an actor, I should play a variety of roles rather than just sticking to one kind & getting typecast.

For me, playing a mother was a point of resistance; the question of 'will I get typecast' was going on in my mind.

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.

For me, theatre and cinema are both pillars of an actor's life; I'd feel very half-baked if I was only doing one and not the other.