Payal Rohatgi Quotes

I've never cared for the character I generally played in films.

You might see some of the movies that I'm in where there are shades of drama or whatever, but for the most part, I don't get offered serious roles.

Directors have been trying to get me to do comedy for a long time, ever since 'One Eight Seven.'

I knew I wasn't going to be any great shakes as an actor - the way I looked, I would play the soda jerk or the friend of a friend.

I have always got interesting roles in Malayalam cinema.

MDKM' has to be the right launch for me. I was pampered a lot on the sets while I bullied everyone.

My first four roles were all nice guys, Raggedy Man being one of them.

I think if you do something effectively whether you're the lover or the comic or the action guy or the villain like I play; movies are very expensive to make. Chances are you'll get asked to play that part again.

Having a persona people recognize, it's the thing that probably gets you paid the most - but it's also the thing that virtually every actor in the world doesn't want. 'Cause, like, no one would believe me if I wanted to play something ultra-realistic, like a gangster or something.

In the beginning, I would find a character I understood. That was my focus. Not now - but you basically get offered the exact same thing you just did. Which I find hilarious. I did 'The Vow,' and then I had every love story you can imagine thrown at me. And now I'm getting offers for comedies.

My very first audition was for 'Hot Girl #1' in some movie.

My career plan at this point is 'Ice Age 5' through '10,' and even '12,' and 'Spider Man' - you know, basically I'd be Emma Stone's dad for the rest of my career. I really don't have any problem doing that.

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.

I don't get offered many dramatic roles. As soon as my face pops up in a movie, everyone knows I'm the funny guy.

With 'Carrie,' I did, like, seven auditions. I'd never done a movie, so they wanted to make sure I wasn't going to ruin it. I don't blame them.

People were confused by me, and at first I was auditioning a lot for the crazy characters or the victim, someone who'd been attacked. Which is great, because usually those are the best acting roles.

In films, I didn't crave the type of attention I had sort of stumbled into in my music career. And I do not audition well. I'm really not good at it. Early on, I did movies like 'Alpha Dog' and 'Black Snake Moan' because the directors didn't ask me to audition.

I'm an actor because of movies like 'Indiana Jones' and 'Jurassic Park.'

If I wasn't an actress and I wasn't Stifler's mom, my life would be so dull.

'The Bank Job,' for me, was a great opportunity for me to do some good acting, you know?

'True Grit' was fun to do, but I wasn't cut out to be an actor. I made John Wayne look so good, he won his only Oscar.

I get sent a lot of scripts where you're just the mom.

When I made my debut as an actor in 'Rock On!' I was confident to get in front of the camera.

I was offered Vicky Kaushal's role in 'Lust Stories,' which I had declined.

For me, playing a mother was a point of resistance; the question of 'will I get typecast' was going on in my mind.