Sobhita Dhulipala Quotes

I'm not interested in the heroes or the villains. I'm interested in playing people.

Scorsese and De Niro taught me to bring out the natural side of myself. And they taught me to think of myself as the average guy. Sometimes the average guy belongs in a role more than your matinee idol-type of person. We have to have people we can relate to.

I just love real characters; they're not pretentious, and every emotion is on the surface, they're regular working people. Their likes, their dislikes, their loves, their hates, their passions; they're all right there on the surface.

The hero is changing in Bollywood, and I approach a hero's role like a character by focusing on its weaknesses. I feel the weaknesses of a character make them more alive, relatable, and human.

Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ordinary words something extraordinary.

I would love to be able to play some characters on television that are similar to some of the indie film roles I've done, that have been so close to my heart.

I hope it's not all I'll ever do, but I know I've played enigmatic characters. For me, the good characters are people who get places, are devious, are cunning and tricky and hard to pin down. Obviously, if you play one and you do an okay job of it, that'll be on people's minds.

I want to play characters that are interesting to watch.

I'm attracted to playing characters that have flaws.

I tend to play strong characters and people just assume that I would want to play romantic comedies, which I would love to do, but there are other women that do it so great and they maybe couldn't do what I do, play the kind of characters that I play.

One of the things I really like about Ford's films is how there is always a focus on the way characters live, and not just the male heroes.

I'll tell you what I really enjoy. We all go to the movies, we all watch television, we know what they're about, how they work. When the main character is a cop or a spy, it's very exciting, but I also very much enjoy when the main characters are nobodies - a trucker.

I think in Vice and American Me I played very silent, rigid characters and people remember them.

I love to play characters who are stuffy and nerdy who either then have a dark side or are pushed to a breaking point.

I like dark, dramatic roles; they're just really powerful and real.

I tend to play more true-to-life characters in real situations.

There are always great deals of humanity in the characters that have been offered to me.

I think that's what distinguishes Schmidt, really. In the movies now, so much of what is appealing to an audience is the dramatic or has to do with science fiction, and Schmidt is simply human. There's no melodrama; there's no device, It's just about a human being.

None of my characters are rich or famous, and the situations they find themselves in could happen to anyone.

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.

I often hear actors say during their interviews: 'I want to play a crazy person, a murderer, or someone who's on edge.' But that question scares me. I mean, of course there are characters I'd like to play, but I can't really say specifically who they are. It's much too hard to play a convincing normal person as it is.

I definitely wouldn't shy away from doing another action based project, but I feel like my forte is more like playing real, ordinary people. I'm a girl's girl.

I am aware of my film habits because I have for so long played guys who are darker or dealing with very complex issues, and they're dealing with their darker sides.

I really enjoy playing intelligent characters. I'm more interested in that than just emotional kind of Mum characters.

These people I play are not usually wish-fulfillment characters.