Payal Rohatgi Quotes

My favourite compliment now is that people are talking about my acting, my craft - not my torso.

I am a stress buster. Because I knew what people react or think after watching me on screen and I love it.

I have the face of an ageing choirboy and the build of an undernourished featherweight. If you can figure out my success on the screen you're a better man than I.

I think I probably think about myself as an actor, which is the way most people do. I think I'm good, I don't think I'm great. I think I would hire somebody else to play me in the movie about me.

I have not taken my good looks seriously from the beginning. When I would be teased by my friends about my looks, I would just make a self-deprecating remark and let it pass.

There are so many examples of talented actors working today, no matter how they live their private lives. I'm lucky that people believe me when I'm in character.

I've always felt if my nose were more crooked, critics would focus more on my acting.

When I got into the film business, my aim was to adopt a positive persona, of a guy who fights against injustice. And it saved me, because my acting was atrocious to say the least!

As an actor, I felt I couldn't compete. I wasn't as cute as the leading man; I wasn't as brilliant as Robin Williams.

I have a secret aspiration to be considered for a part where it doesn't matter what you look like to play it.

People think I have an interesting walk. Hell, I'm just trying to hold my gut in.

I want to be strong enough to cope with the roles, but I don't want to be cast as the guy that takes his shirt off.

I want to show audiences I can act.

What I do for a living means that people look at me. As an actress, you are scrutinized. You are not just dealing with your looks privately, you are on display. I have never been 100 percent comfortable in my own skin. I go through different phases. But I don't feel beautiful all the time, no.

I know doing movies is where I need to be. That's where my audience wants to see me.

With proper acting, I don't know what I would play - I got sent a script for a play, and it said in the notes that my proposed character was 'hideously fat and ugly'. That made my day. I mean, I do know I am no oil painting.

I've done one movie. And it's not a movie I want to stand on as far as acting ability goes. I mean, I'm not going to win an Oscar anytime soon. I'm not Meryl Streep.

I didn't realize that everyone was so attracted to my hair. I thought, well what about my music?

Being an actress is a very physical thing. If I didn't look the way I looked, I would never have started in films.

I feel like I could carry a movie or a show, and I'll mess up here and there, and I'll learn from those things.

Here's what I have at my advantage: I've never been a personality. I've always been a character actor.

Quarterbacks can still have good bodies. I'm always conscious of the stereotype. I want to change what people think. There's a lot more to it than what you see on the field.

Thankfully, I have other skills than just standing there and looking cute.

I'm not a fitness model; I'm just a singer. If people focus on that, that's what I care about.

It was great about the sizes of the audiences we were getting in America, but sometimes you feel like telling some of the men that you're not on stage to have your body looked at.