Omari Hardwick Quotes

I started my career, actually, maybe the first 10, 11 years, playing the bad boyfriend with the gun. And I got ill with that and moved on, for some reason, to playing cops all the time.

Character roles definitely age better than your ingenues. You don't get to keep doing that.

Being a regular in a television series, for me - if I wanted to be a cop, I woulda went to cop school. If I wanted to be a doctor, I would've gone to medical school. You get trapped in your normal episodic television shows, basically doing the same thing.

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 began by doing a lot of character work on TV, just fun acting parts.

I've been getting a lot of science fiction scripts which contained variations on my 'Star Trek' character and I've been turning them down. I strongly feel that the next role I do, I should not be wearing spandex.

Films are really cool because, every couple months, or however many times you can get a job because there's a lot of luck involved in that, you're playing a different character.

If you're a 'character actor,' you get hired to play baddies a lot.

People were confused by me, and at first I was auditioning a lot for the crazy characters or the victim, someone who'd been attacked. Which is great, because usually those are the best acting roles.

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

No, I am not looking at being a part of television in India, but I may consider movies, if I get to play a strong character.

It's very important to play a police role convincingly. It ups you in your career. Even 'Siruthai,' in which I played a cop in one of the roles, was a gamechanger.

Not that I'm in the stage of my career where they're offering me parts in 'The Revenant,' but I try very hard to go through the audition process because I feel like I learn quite a lot about the character and the people I'm going to work with.

As an actor, I want to build a career as an actor. It's hard to even get a job sometimes, so as my career builds, I can be more picky than I used to be.

No doubt an actress has to do varied roles. But I don't want myself to be typecast as an actress who can only do off-beat ventures.

The great thing about getting older and doing TV and theatre is that the roles get more interesting, and you're not cast because, 'Oh, she's always looked extraordinary.'

I get a lot of scripts, but they're all for the same type of character.

Once 'Uyir' created a controversy, I had several offers coming my way with prominence to my character. However, I avoided them purposefully.

After 'Champion,' I got like 20,000 psychopath roles! And they wanted me to strip and show my body in every film. But I have tried to balance my roles.

There's a process: you audition, you get rejected, occasionally you get jobs, and it's exciting, but it's all little stepping stones.

Before 'Rangeela' happened to me, all that was offered to me were song-and-dance roles.

No actor wants to be typecast, so you always want to make good, careful choices.

I just wanted to be an actor. I was hoping for opportunities to unveil, and I wanted to make the most of whatever came my way.

There were offers to do 'Tum Bin 2' and 'Tum Bin 3' but then it would have been the same kind of franchise films which I think limit an actor.

If there's a role on a TV show for me, I'll take it. If there's a role in a movie, I'll take it. I just wanna act. That's all it comes down to.