Joe Rogan Quotes

Everyone thinks I am exactly like the characters I play.

I guess it's flattering that everyone believed I was those characters, but it also is dehumanizing.

I play a lot of hard men and gangsters, and I'm not like that at all.

Because I was promoted as a sort of a siren and played all those sexy broads, people made the mistake of thinking I was like that off the screen. They couldn't have been more wrong.

I always play these bad guys, and I'm really a nice guy.

I think you get the parts that people are comfortable with seeing you play.

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.

A lot of film stars are just playing themselves in different frocks.

I don't know what it is about me that gets cast in specific roles. Some people would say, 'You're just a pretty face,' but on 'Battlestar,' I'm not looking pretty every day. I'm pretty banged up.

Did Anthony Hopkins really have to be a serial killer to be in 'Silence of the Lambs?,' I don't think so, no. It's called acting, people.

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

I do keep getting these bad girl roles. The funny thing is that, honestly, I don't think I'm believable as these aristocratic mean girls. But I do love playing them.

I really enjoyed playing Freddie Cork. People are always scared to approach me because of the character I played in 'Brotherhood.' The writing was very smart.

I've always felt that almost every part I've played has been a character part. I mean, I look at it that way. I can't help how I look or how I seem to people.

Mum asks why I am so often cast in adulterous roles. I think it must be because I am fairly flirty.

I usually do get to play the very sweet, charming roles... but I'm not an obvious kind of villain.

I love the idea that somebody is going to compare me to my character or think that I am like my character when they see me. I feel like that is a role that I am willing to fulfill.

I try to bring my own style to a role, but I can't change how people think of me.

There are elements of me in the roles I've played in the past. But people forget that Mary Poppins was just a role, too.

I once literally had a casting director ask my agent, 'Can she play anything other than a drunk?'

You have to carry so many archetypes as an actor, especially as a blonde-haired, blue-eyed one.

I think that sometimes when they see me in a movie they expect me to be something nasty. I mean, I play a lot of villains and you show up and they think maybe... That's why it's good to defy expectations sometimes.

You've got to understand that in Bollywood, every actor is an instrument, and yet a human being. They come to the set with a set agenda, believing, 'This is who I am, this is what I want, and no, I am not going to become that character you want me to.'

In the Indian film industry, especially those of us who are in mainstream cinema, we invariably play a typical hero's role. More often than not, we cater to the public perception. However, there is a latent desire in most actors to do a role where you can go all out and experiment.

Typecasting is an interesting thing because, in a way, if you're good at something, you're going to work at that thing. In other ways, you constantly have to change people's opinion of you as one thing, especially if you want to play different roles. You have to shatter that image sometimes.