Parineeti Chopra Quotes

I love good film, whether it's an independent or studio film. The independent films, I think the good ones aren't necessarily eccentric ones but they're the more specific ones.

My schedule is completely different doing a play than it is doing a movie, and I actually think it's a much harder schedule because you've got to do it eight times a week and you've got to do it good eight times a week and with different kinds of audiences who are cold or drunk or tired, whatever it is.

I think my mom is the inspiration of me wanting to do film and TV and be an actor because she loved film so much. She loved, like, horror films and action films, so growing up, she loved watching all the Charles Bronson films and all the westerns.

I love telling stories. I like the challenges presented to me on a daily basis. There's nothing resting about acting.

Most actors want to sink their teeth into amazing material.

I know what a good movie is.

I'm sure my agents would like me to play leading roles, and I guess I should, but I'm more interested in the character parts. They're more fun, challenging and interesting.

My favorite films are the ones that I walk away from and I know I saw a story.

As an actor, you're supposed to take jobs that will challenge you or force fans to see you in a different light. By the '90s, I wasn't really an actor anymore. I was someone who went on the road with these gigantic concerts.

I try to write fun - though difficult and challenging - things for actors to do, because I know if they're having fun, they're going to give it everything they got.

When watching movies, I was always inspired by the performances of the cast. Of course, the story and the direction and all that intrigued me. But what actors would propel themselves to do, and be, was awesome. It was like, how could these people give so much?

I was a big 'Blue Valentine' fan. I really loved that movie. And I thought the performances were just unbelievably real, which is certainly what I always strive for in my work.

I like all films whether it's dark or light, love, hate, whatever it is, I enjoy it.

As an actor, I'm always so excited about those things that I get to stretch my legs and really get to do something that's hard to do.

I like acting. I really like acting. The career, it can keep you interested. With 'Entourage,' the characters are living a lifestyle that is kind of troubling. But the challenge is to make Shauna a person.

When I look at a film, I don't think, 'Oh, I wish I had done that' because I haven't done that role, so it doesn't matter.

As an actor, you hope to find roles that are challenging to you as an artist. Then if you are truly blessed, you will find that it also carries a message that you can impart to your audience.

People think that my favorite roles to do are villains, but I find comedy to be the most challenging and rewarding.

As filmmakers, we want the audience to have the most complete experience they can. For example, I interviewed Stanley Kubrick years ago around the time of '2001: A Space Odyssey.' I was going to see the film that night in London, and he insisted I sit in one of four seats in the theater for the best view or not watch the film.

In theater, they say a theater piece is only as good as its transitions.

I always feel in movies, I don't know if it's because I'm jaded, but I always feel like we don't go far enough.

Theater is great because you're able to tell a narrative arc without a break. I think it's more about the material and whether what we get offered is good.

Everything that I am going to do as an actress doesn't matter where it's coming from. It just has to be interesting.

Once you're in a musical, there is a huge opportunity for that, singing and dancing, 'Aha!' and 'Tada' at the end of the numbers; but it's a different kind of discipline you have to go through to maintain that kind of performance.

My personal opinion is that an actor shouldn't bother himself about expanding his market. He or she should just do good films.