Hina Khan Quotes

If you're fortunate enough, you get to a position where you can be a little pickier about your roles.

I've been offered a couple of shows that have been very successful, but they weren't right for me. It has to be something I could be excited about for a long time.

All that running around in my underwear put money in my pockets. I can focus on working in interesting movies without having to worry about supporting myself.

As soon as I got my proper first job, I never did acting again. I think the last thing I did was a Mike Figures film, and then I got a series with the BBC. I'm glad of the experience, because I think it's very, very good to understand what actors go through.

When New Kids became really successful, I got a lot of offers to do parts in movies and TV shows, but I was really busy, so I pretty much turned everything down. But I always knew it was something that I would eventually put some energy into.

I chose to have a career, and I enjoyed it while I had it.

I'm not saying I want a film career because I think I'm too good for television. I'm simply saying I want more control over my life.

Because modeling is lucrative, I'm able to save up and be more particular about the acting roles I take.

I'm either going to have the career I want doing films, or I'll do something else - I'll be gone.

I wouldn't trade my career with anybody's. I'd trade a few movies with Tom Hanks - 'Apollo 13' and 'Forrest Gump' - but other than that, I love my career.

I turned down the opportunity to be in some films that went on to be blockbusters.

I mean, I would have loved to have kept on being a big television star. If that's the way things would have broke, I would have loved to have done that. I just didn't really want to continue and be someone who took whatever was offered.

I'm not being offered a constant stream of wonderful parts with wonderful directors that would keep me away from the theatre. When they turn up, I do them.

I've had wonderfully lucrative offers to do another network series. I could do that again and have a very luscious retirement.

I did not stay at the 'Today' show because of money. I think there are other ways to make money.

I suppose where I am sort of reflects the work I have chosen to do. Are there occasional frustrations because I can't work with a certain director because it's a big studio movie, and I don't have enough of a studio profile? The answer is yes. But generall... generally, I have the career I have chosen myself.

There's a couple of times that I did it for the... paycheck. Even when I was younger - I remember I did this movie that wasn't good, called '1969.' I totally did it 'cause I could get out of school.

Earlier, the notion was such that TV actors are overexposed and that they can't do films, but now it's not like that.

I used to just do movies for alimony purposes, between plays.

I could have earned lots of crores by doing hundreds of more 'Rangeela' that came my way.

Most of the time actresses are just left to play the actor's wife or girlfriend so there is not much to do. 'Chalo Dilli' was a refreshing change which was different and that's why I decided to work in it.

Bollywood was never really the aim, actually. I mean, sure, you could argue that I could have done more films there; for sure, I could have.

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

After 'Pithamagan,' I took a break scouting for good offers.

Rejecting offers has not been easy for me, especially when the movies involve some of my favourite actors and directors.