Nawazuddin Siddiqui Quotes

If you are working in the Hindi film industry, you cannot escape playing a police guy more than three times.

You're always being cast for what you've been in last.

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.

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.

I've got quite a big fan base, and people like to see you do the same thing - that's why you get offered the same roles.

I think that I've been pigeon-holed by virtue of the fact that I've spent so much time in front of a green screen.

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

I did as much as I could in Vancouver. You can only play so many ex-'Falcon Crest' sons in so many movies of the week before you burn out.

I was really overwhelmed by the amount of roles that I got offered that were carbon copies of what I did in 'Up in the Air.' I got every offer for every ambitious, unfeeling practically robotic character.

Somehow, someway, you get kind of labeled this guy who was in a Freddie Prinze Jr. movie too many. And Freddie Prinze Jr. - it's not his fault, either - it's just these are the things that happen. I'm not a George Clooney; I don't have a ton of opportunities.

I think some superstars feel they get trapped in their established screen persona over and over again. That's what they get hired to do.

I was offered, within one year, three different witch roles. It was almost like the world was saying - or the studios were saying - 'We don't know what to do with you.'

My big thing is that I always get typecast.

Honestly, I got a lot of offers which were similar to 'Badlapur,' and I didn't want that. Unfortunately, we live in a world which is so myopic that they only want to offer you what you have already done.

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

In the industry, once people see you in a certain mold, you start getting offered only those kind of roles.

What's interesting is that producers, directors and writers tend to typecast me in terms of whatever movie they've seen me in most recently.

I'm aware of being pigeonholed in those period drama roles. But, I do love them at the same time.

When I first finished 'Sharpe,' it was hard to get work because people only saw me as him.

I thought, 'Oh, acting is going to be great - I get to play different parts.' And then these auditions started coming up for terrorist, terrorist, terrorist, and I'm going, 'Whoa, what's this about?'

I'm in show business, and we have a long history here of making movies about law enforcement officers. If you're my age, and you're male, and you're trying to get work, you're going to run into those roles as opposed to having a long run of playing dancers.

A lot of actors seem to dislike typecasting these days. The funny thing is, that's a fairly recent development. It used to be that actors wanted to be typecast so audiences could remember them and identify with them.

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

I think I've been cast as toughs as far as I can remember always, always.

After 'Broadcast News,' I could have played that same part, but I didn't want to. So I didn't follow it up with a hit.