Arjun Rampal Quotes

I'm not expecting much work in Hollywood, to be honest. People stick to film because they tend to get offered the same roles over and over again, and it's safe. But I'm not interested in doing that.

I was happy she got it and I have to sort of - and one of the reasons I did Third Watch is because I wanted to break that thing of just being the pretty girl and play it down and let it be about the work.

I feel blessed that I am able to play really dark guys in a business where they usually want you to play the same character over and over. Poor Michael Rapaport will being playing white homeboys till the day he dies. That's not the kind of career I want.

The worst thing for an actor is to be stuck in one kind of thing. But if you're not in people's faces all the time, you can lose traction. And that affects the choice of things you get offered.

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

I am getting better offers since directors feel that I am versatile and can be more than just a girl next door. I am also seriously trying not to be repetitive.

'House of Cards' opened some doors. I've been able to tackle some diverse stories and characters.

It's not fun for an actor to be pigeonholed in any way.

I have done too many movies but too little variety.

I think I'm fortunate as an actor in that I do seem to get opportunities to play roles that aren't necessarily typical of what I've done before.

I don't necessarily wait for that massive leading role. I want to keep the juices flowing.

My agent Sue realised after 'Cold Feet' that I could have spent the rest of my life doing similar roles. So she was instrumental in moving me away from that.

I had a fear that I'd be typecast, but I don't really have that fear anymore.

I was reading through endless junk scripts that were being sent my way. Typically the roles were to play his wife or his girlfriend - leading roles for women were few and far between.

I think any actor in their right mind is afraid of getting pigeonholed.

I'm in a position where I'm being continually knocked back for the kind of independent films I want to be in because people don't know who I am.

It's beyond my control who's going to cast me or how you're going to pigeonholed, so for me, it's just I want to keep doing different things because I want to get better, so hopefully I'll be hired to do them.

The whole goal for me with my career is just follow good projects and good parts and challenge myself as much as I can.

I don't put the pressure on myself to be a very successful movie star. I want to enjoy being an actor and I want to be challenged by the roles I take.

When I started in films, it never really occurred to me that I could make a career out of acting.

I haven't been in a position to have the luxury to pick roles for most of my career, so I'm not practiced in that. Usually, when you want to be an actor, you take whatever comes along. If there's an audition, you go for it. If you get the job, you do it - just to get experience, to act, to meet people.

Because I'm now successful, what I'm being offered as an actor is more and more of the same.

I was looking to show people I could act. I was looking for something that would take me away from the whole hunk riding off into the sunset thing that people wanted me to play after Brown Sugar.

As an actor, you don't want to be typecast, because Hollywood is so quick to put you in things that you've succeeded in before.

Probably a concern to either a major or minor degree with most actors if they're really motivated to kind of make a significant difference in the business is the 'pigeon-holing' thing.