Nushrat Bharucha Quotes

My first films were comedy, 'Murder By Death,' and 'The Cheap Detective.' But now they won't think of me as a comedian. Now, they think of me as a bad guy, and I can't do comedy.

You get an image in the first couple of years of your career, and then whether you like it or not, you are stuck with it for the rest of your life.

I think if I was in over 250 films, the world would get pretty sick of me. I would probably never get put in anything ever again.

I was beginning to think I was typecast in everyone's mind out there as a serial killer. I played a serial killer in one movie, I was the ghost of a serial killer in another and in a third, a computer-generated serial killer. The stage looks pretty good after those roles.

If you look a little punkish, then they're going to give you the parts. And if you play an iconic villain early on in your career, you tend to get asked to play one over and over and over again.

I sort of went 'Oh, great. I'm getting these great roles and I love doing them, but I'm going to be Anthony Perkins for the rest of my life.'

Naan' performed admirably, and the people have since associated me with that character. I am in no hurry to change that image.

All my cop/gangster dramas have been spaced out, but somewhere, the films in which I played the bad guy were extremely successful, so people are under the impression that I play only such roles. I call it selective amnesia.

I really do think that every time you play a role well, you are in danger of being identified with that role until the next big thing comes along.

If you are known to do something well, people want to see you do that. But what you choose to do is up to you. After 'Delhi Belly,' I got some 40 scripts - some on the same lines as 'Delhi Belly.' So, I guess people only get stereotyped if they want to.

I've always thought that as long as directors and casting directors don't see me as just Harry Potter, I'll be OK. People have shown a lot of faith in me, and I owe them a huge debt. They're letting me prove that I'm serious about this.

I didn't want to spend the rest of my life playing Norma Desmond over and over again.

I get more people approaching me about how good I was in 'Napoleon Dynamite' than being in Coldplay.

It's difficult to get away from the shadow of a TV character.

Once people see you pulling off one role, they think you're a safe bet to do a similar role.

I took the role of Rochelle in 'Everybody Hates Chris,' and that was it. I was going to play mother roles all the time. Once you do one mother role, it's always a trickle down effect.

I turned my hair dark and have received much better parts ever since.

It's hard for a hit to be bad for your career.

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.

Playing a character for four years, in people's minds, that's who you are.

People want me to say that I'm sick of playing Leia and that it ruined my life. If my life was that easy to ruin, it deserved to be ruined.

I hate to talk about typecasting, because being typecast as Columbo ain't cancer.

I don't really want to play Will Poulter for the rest of my life, because that's boring.

I'm always going to be known for Mini Me, and it's fine.

Every time you do a movie, it's important for your career, your reputation.