Neeraj Kabi Quotes

Very few of my characters are totally heroic or totally villainous.

The bad guys are not typical; they are not just bad, they are interesting. They might be good or bad.

I prefer to work with grey characters rather than black and white.

The beauty of Sudhir's protagonists is that they are not shown as black and white. There are various layers to the characters.

That's what attracts me to the kind of characters I try and write - that they're not cut and dried.

I would love to play a negative guy, play the villain. It is always interesting to have shades to your character.

I like to show the grey area in all my characters.

It's much less interesting as an actor playing someone who's purely good or purely evil.

Every actor will tell you it's so much more fun to play the bad guy because usually those characters are more complex and more broad and more interesting, and have more sides to them.

The characters that have greys are the more interesting characters. The hero who sometimes crosses the line and the villain who sometimes doesn't are just much more interesting.

I'm always interested in what we're not being shown. So if you're playing ostensibly a quote-unquote 'baddie,' what are their good sides, and vice versa.

I like playing complex, interesting characters. Sometimes I don't think there's much of a strong line between right and wrong for a character. Every character is somewhere on a moral spectrum.

I love playing characters who are multilayered and multidimensional and have a darkness to them, which makes them more realistic and more fun to play.

I want to play a character with grey shades.

I look forward to parts that have a dimension or depth to them. This makes it interesting for me to do and the audience to watch. Whether he's a chocolate boy die hard romantic or a gangster with swag, every good has a little bad and every bad has a little good in them.

The thing that I love about 'Scandal' is every character, it's not clear if they're good or bad. Everyone is both good and bad.

I get the feeling that audiences have become mature and they understand that not every character is in black or white. There can be grey shades to it.

As an actor, I'm constantly striving to find the darkness in the lighter characters and the lightness in the darker characters.

We don't live in a world that's black and white.

It's cool to play a sinister bad guy who also has a human side.

I don't believe novels should carry an obvious message. I don't want to write characters you can immediately say are good or bad; as in life, most people are a mixture.

I did a play once where a reviewer said, 'Martin Freeman's too nice to play a bad guy.' And I thought: 'Well, bad guys aren't always bad guys, you know?' When I see someone play the obvious villain, I know it's false.

A character on screen that's the 'good guy' or the 'bad guy,' they're never interesting. There's got to be an internal struggle, the duality is important to find.

I wanted readers to be genuinely unsure as to whether she's telling the truth or lying. It meant making her partly sympathetic, and partly unsympathetic, which wasn't easy.

Good guy' or 'bad guy', hero or anti hero; doesn't matter to me, what role I play, only the character have something magical.