Abhimanyu Singh Quotes

Once you get into a part, and someone sees you, you get asked to do it again.

I've been fortunate. I don't pick scripts. Scripts pick me.

I don't exactly set out to only play creepy characters, it's just that a lot of those roles come my way.

Without doubt, you are recognized for the last role you played.

I like movies because I've been getting leads, and TV is more about ensemble casts.

I want to have the great roles that move people profoundly. I want to have the choice and be given the opportunity to play those roles, and unfortunately, fame plays a huge part in that.

There'll always be a difference between a star and an actor. I've nothing against stars. They've earned it and deserve it. I'm happy being just an actor.

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.

It's not like you do 'SNL' and then get handed movie roles. You work, you audition for stuff and try to get it. I think, a lot of people, it's the goal to be in movies or just to be working in general. But yeah, some of us get lucky and get some movie roles, and it's nice.

What I've learnt being an actor is that you've got to be lucky. I got less lucky, and nobody was interested. If a part came up, it would be for the main corpse's friend's brother who was having problems with his marriage.

I never get the tall, blonde, glamorous roles because I'm not tall, blonde and glamorous. I'm more the wee, disturbing characters because of the way I look or sound.

Because, let's face it, I do not get offered the parts that Brad Pitt has just turned down.

Actors don't get to be well-known if they're horrible.

Certainly, when I walk into an audition, a lot of people already know who I am.

I don't care if you've just won an Oscar, you still have to campaign for parts.

Once you don't smile on film, they say, 'Let's have that bloke who doesn't smile.'

It's my job in Hollywood to find roles where I get to be a character not a bathing suit.

However, I'm at a very comfortable place in my career and celebrity, in that I don't have to audition as extensively as I used to for roles but yet I'm not immediately recognizable.

Movie stars have careers - actors work, and then they don't work, and then they work again.

I do always feel very proud and flattered by being asked to be a part of American productions playing American characters.

There were so many people who wanted me for their films.

Let's be honest. Physicality is going to have a bearing on the parts you get. And if you think differently, you're in the wrong business.

No one ever let me be a bad guy once I started working more frequently after I got out of college and started pursuing acting. I just got all of the good-guy roles because if I walk in the room, not a lot of people believe me as a bad guy.

My dad always said there's four phases in an actor/director's life. There's 'Mario Who?' There's 'Get me Mario!' 'Get me a young Mario,' and 'Mario Who?'

The way it works in Hollywood is that if you're hot it doesn't matter if you're right for the part or not, you're just offered it.