Abhay Deol Quotes

I think if actors are successful at one thing, they paint themselves into a corner sometimes, and what's the fun in that?

After I tasted success with erotic thrillers, a time came when I was being offered only films belonging to that genre. The industry loves repeating a success formula, and the audience had formed a certain image of mine in their minds.

As an actor, you don't want to be typecast, because Hollywood is so quick to put you in things that you've succeeded in before.

Once you become tagged as anything, it becomes difficult to shake it, because the less imaginative people in the business want you to do what worked for the last guy. That's always been something I've had to deal with.

In Bombay, people usually tend to cast you in roles that you've played before. Even though they may consider you to be a talented actor, they just think it's 'safer' to have you play the same kind of roles over and over again.

I think in Europe, movies are made like a commodity and then sold as art.

I think any actor in their right mind is afraid of getting pigeonholed.

But once you have some success in one style, the business wants to lock you in that vein forever.

Because I'm now successful, what I'm being offered as an actor is more and more of the same.

The trap for an actor is that you become too successful at what you're trying to do, and you can find yourself stuck there.

I must say that when I left 'Doctor Who,' I was filled with... not loathing, but I was incredibly annoyed because I wanted to do more television and films and the only thing that people could ever see me in was a recreation of what I had done.

I was really overwhelmed by the amount of roles that I got offered that were carbon copies of what I did in 'Up in the Air.' I got every offer for every ambitious, unfeeling practically robotic character.

I get a lot of dark scripts now. I don't wanna be stuck doing movies like American Pie. For someone my age, once you get started doing them, it's hard to get out.

As an artist, program directors always want to put you in a little box.

My first film out of the gate was financially so successful that I guess, being in Hollywood, you get kind of put into a certain box.

Honestly, I got a lot of offers which were similar to 'Badlapur,' and I didn't want that. Unfortunately, we live in a world which is so myopic that they only want to offer you what you have already done.

If my films don't do well, nobody is going to give me films.

It's not fun for an actor to be pigeonholed in any way.

It's not that I don't want to do different films. The non-mainstream stuff that I did started to get successful... But for an industry which runs essentially on money, they do put you in a box.

It's nice to stretch in different directions and use different muscles. You can get swallowed into Hollywood, where it's all about bums on seats and how commercial a film is.

Nobody will tell you that you're typecast until your films aren't working; if it's working, they'll call it your 'zone.'

People make a star out of actors after one or two films and keep capitalising on the same thing without having the courage of exploring the world of cinema, which has so much to offer.

I am conscious about not getting typecast, but obviously I have to keep picking up great roles so that I don't get typecast.

If I don't do this film. I'll be acting in corsets for the next 20 years.

Every actor wants to change things up a bit. You don't want to be pigeonholed, and not just because of what the industry might think.