Nikita Dutta Quotes

Restoration I did because I really loved e novel and I like Michael Hoffman, who directed it, but it wasn't a really challenging part for me. I'm not critical of the film: I just don't think I gave a very interesting performance.

It is definitely a challenge to play Nathan, but the more different he is from myself, the more interesting the character becomes for me.

I've played a lot of villains, and I always feel slightly upset when people say, 'You were so bad!'

There's nothing worse than finishing your last take on a movie and thinking, 'God! I finally nailed who this guy was!'

I've had some marvelous parts, but I'm also asked to play characters who are kind of superficial people.

Having done a lot of theater, I'm used to sustaining characters over long periods of time.

It was my first straight dramatic role, and the most adult, intelligent one I have ever played.

The sixth Harry Potter film - I don't like my performance in that film at all.

A lot of people think I'm that guy in 'Betsy's Wedding', but I'm not. What it is for me is that, on some level, I connect with the character emotionally.

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.

They did cast me as an ingenue once, and the novelty was nice. But I said, 'There is nothing here to play!' I really like getting into the meat of a role.

Christopher Reeve did such an amazing job that to give him some kind of accent or more bravado would have been wrong. Audiences wouldn't have responded to that either.

When I was cast as Gendry, I didn't have any of the physical attributes the part required. I was astounded that I got the role, to be honest.

Well, with each character that I play in my life as an actor, I try to figure out how to find the challenge.

I'd never played a cop before, and this particular role with what she is going thru, especially during the first season, covering her alcoholism to her on the job performance, was a great opportunity for me as an actress.

For me and for I'm sure any actor, each role is a different challenge to prepare for in a different way.

Before it was revealed that my character on 'Lost' had a troubled history, a fan came up to me and said, 'Wow, you're a really nice guy.' To me, that was a compliment, having played a very villainous guy.

I didn't even watch the soaps when I was in them because it's like a coal miner coming home and staring at the coal scuttle - I was never a great lover of watching myself act.

I can tell you that from the director's chair, young actors love to be challenged, to be given killer lines that take time to wrap their mind around.

I got a role in this movie called Freeway playing this really angry, aggressive, violent young woman who believed wholeheartedly in the truth. I had such satisfaction afterward, and I thought, That's what I want to do.

I wouldn't be able to tackle a character like Rosalee on 'Underground' without having tackled the many characters I've played before.

What's interesting about playing Maura is that I get to use more of Jeffrey that I've ever used in any role, and I think that's the remarkable part about it and truly the most surprising part about doing this role.

It's exciting to play someone who is a bit tougher than I am. I liked feeling those adjustments.

Playing an unstable, bipolar, multiple-personality-disorder person is definitely up my alley.

My character in 'Hollyoaks' went through absolutely everything! There's not one emotion where I'm going to go, 'I don't know how to play this.'