Robert Wagner Quotes

We were all ruled by the studio system. I signed a contract for seven years.

The nightmare of a film career, or at least the challenge of one, is that you're rarely going to get the opportunity to explore character because once people see you in one thing, you know, they want to see that again.

In England or America, actors do not have to cater to an image. In India, it is almost demanded of us. Very seldom do you get a film where you can walk away from your image.

There are so many venues in which stars are exposed today, that we just know much more and the studios don't have the control over stars like they used to, in the 30s, 40s, and 50s.

I think part of my reputation has to do with the difficult roles I've played. Actors do tend to get identified with their characters.

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.

I regret the passing of the studio system. I was very appreciative of it because I had no talent.

Is typecasting really a problem?

Indie movies got co-opted by the studio system. The studios insisted that only stars could make movies successful.

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

The problem with the film industry is that once one starts out as a villain, subsequent offers are those of similar roles.

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

Usually on films, you get used to kind of being told, 'This is what you're going to wear, this is what you're going to hold, and remember, you're lucky to be here, and shut up.'

I have to say a part of me was a little terrified to be only looked at as Shane from 'The L Word.' I was very conscious of doing something that would steer me clear or just steer me in a different direction.

The end of the studio system signalled the end of the great screen stars. They were the sort of actors who brought their own charismatic personas to each role they played. Audiences felt as if they knew them immediately every time they watched one of their movies.

There are so few movies that still cast on chemistry. Now it's often, like, this person's movies make this amount of money, and this person's movie makes that amount of money, so let's put them together.

It's a good thing to be typecast, isn't it?

Hollywood in the 1930s is an incredible period of history. There are so many amazing stories about the stars and the studios at that time that you can't fit into one film.

Lana Turner and Ava Gardner were my special friends at MGM.

I play so many weirdos in movies that it's nice to play an attractive woman.

What I will say - one thing that is attractive about getting a real film made within the studio system is that studio systems, with their marketing and distribution, have real power.

Our Bollywood industry works in such a way that when an actor is seen in a gangster's role, he is offered similar roles.

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.

Till 'Mulk' and 'Article 15,' I used to deny that there is a change. Now I feel there is certainly a change, what kind of change, I don't know. Now I get attracted to different things - story or a performance. Earlier I used to get attracted to grand visuals, size of the film and how big the starcast was. Now I am not attracted to these things.

You need to learn that, unless your lead character is written in a way that one of the 20 movie stars want to play him, your movie will not get made.