Nushrat Bharucha Quotes

Once 'Uyir' created a controversy, I had several offers coming my way with prominence to my character. However, I avoided them purposefully.

I didn't want to get typecast doing an item number in 'Corporate,' so I didn't do it then.

You know what I did? I turned down an offer to do 'Enemy of the People' with Steve McQueen. It doesn't matter that the film was never really released. A movie like that, successful or not, adds to your credits. It leads to other roles.

Even in Indian cinema, there is so much work that I have accepted because I'm comfortable and so much I have declined because I haven't been comfortable.

I don't think one should attribute the success and failure of a film to a single actor. When you decide to do a film, you weigh the pros and cons before taking a call. Only when you run out of patience, get insecure, and feel your career is heading nowhere do you sign anything that comes your way.

As an actress, all I can do is choose from the films I am offered.

There are a lot of people who approached me after 'Dangal' and 'Stree' to do films in lead roles with great money. But I don't want to rush into it. I want you to call me with a happy face that the film is rocking... And that will only happen if I make wise and patient decisions.

It doesn't make a difference to anybody if I accept or quit a film.

I don't want to be picky and say that I only want to do films.

Before signing 'Dawat-E-Ishq,' I came across few more offers, but none of them interested me. This film has a soul, and I went for it.

Even after the Tamil 'Ghajini' became a superhit, I didn't go on a signing spree, though I was flooded with offers. I took my time before doing 'Pokkiri' and 'Dasavatharam.'

I'm pretty fortunate that I'm in the films I'm in largely because the directors have asked me to be in them. I'd love to do more of them, but the writing and historical stuff I'll probably always do.

I don't have any sort of calculus in choosing film roles.

I was offered 'Pretty Woman.' I was offered 'Big' and 'Dead Poets Society.' But what was important to me in those years was to make movies, to make these Albert Brooks movies.

Actors have far fewer choices than the public thinks they do.

I'm actually very snobbish about directors. I have to say 'no' all the time. 'No' is the most powerful word in our business. You've got to protect yourself.

I'm very selective about my scripts and about how I am projected on the screen.

My primary focus will be Malayalam films. I will choose from what comes my way and take a call irrespective of the language.

I will not hesitate to take up good film offers.

I am very choosy about my films. I don't do a film just for the sake of money.

I have never thought of which kind of movie will give me the big break. I have always been more cautious of the roles that I have played.

I would never refuse a film or do a film for a certain amount of money.

Soon after 'Paruthiveeran' I was flooded with scripts that were almost the same as the award-winning film. I had offers from Malyalam, Telugu and Kannada filmmakers. But I had to be firm and in fact I realized that now I had to be more careful with my choice of films because I have raised the audience expectations.

I can't take up every film that is being offered to me.

I hadn't made up my mind whether I had to do Hollywood or Bollywood films because I loved both, and I grew up on both. So I am glad that Bollywood chose me.