Divya Dutta Quotes

I guess each of my roles on the network have been so different. It's great to be entrusted with such interesting, unique, and completely separate characters.

I'm trying to broaden my range and get different characters in each film.

No, there isn't a particular type of genre that I'm drawn to. I'm more drawn to the possibility of creating different characters, or being able to go from one genre to the other and to show that I could do it, that I could be good at it.

I do love doing films; I love going out and creating different characters for each film, and not having to be stuck with one role for many, many years. It's a creative liberty that I love.

At the end of the day, if I can say that I had a career where I was able to play all different kinds of characters and I'm known as someone who is well-respected for my approach to the craft, that would be a beautiful life.

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.

A lot of people just ask me about how I can do small budgets and big budgets, but many actors do both. I think the more self-destructive impulse I have is doing so many different characters.

In an ideal world, I would constantly be doing different characters in different worlds.

I want as much as I can to try and explore different roles and different characters; that's important to me to get involved in as many different parts as I can.

I feel, as an actor, you should be in a position to mould yourself into different characters and should have the ability to change.

What attracted me to acting, from the start, was playing different characters. I'm not a massive fan of just playing myself on screen.

One thing that's great about being a character actor is that a movie doesn't rest on your shoulders. If it bombs, it won't hurt my career.

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 never really thought about what characters I play. I always just wanted different characters.

Typecasting is something I have to be careful with, since I play myself on Geek & Sundry so much on my weekly show 'The Flog.' That's why I did 'Dragon Age: Redemption' last year, so I could do something a little more dramatic and hard-edged.

I love playing different characters all the time, so I'm concentrating on doing other stuff.

I want to play many different characters.

Every actress hopes to play a wide range of characters because not often you don't.

I love playing characters, so I'm always telling my agents, 'Don't worry if the character description is something you think I'm not. Let me try to be that person.'

I love doing roles and movies that are different from each other.

I feel as though my career really hit its high point when I was cast as a supporting actress in 'American Wedding'. I thought the script had a lot of depth and intelligence, and it really just jumped off the page.

I want to continue to play characters that are not like me at all, and transform.

It's funny, because in drama school, my greatest strength was my range. So my early career was like that: I played all kinds of different characters.

Cinema is a director's medium, so you're saying, 'What do you want?' Being an actor is about adapting - physically and emotionally. If that means you have to look great for it and they can make you look great, then thank you. And if you have to have everything washed away, then I'm willing to do that too.

I like to play a wide range of characters. The more they're unlike me, the better I like it.