Kirti Kulhari Quotes

Readers of novels often fall into the bad habit of being overly exacting about the characters' moral flaws. They apply to these fictional beings standards that no one they know in real life could possibly meet.

As an actor, the flaws are the things that are juicy to play. If the character is perfect, it can be a little boring.

Perfectionism is not a quest for the best. It is a pursuit of the worst in ourselves, the part that tells us that nothing we do will ever be good enough - that we should try again.

I think I like playing the bad girl. I like complicated. I like flawed, messed up complicated. It's more interesting.

That's what makes a character interesting from an actor's perspective - the more screwed up, the better.

They very seldom let me lose my cool. They made me like I was Polly Perfect, which was ridiculous so that when I bump into kids on the street they'd say 'I wish my Mom were like you.'

A while ago, I did a television adaptation of 'Bleak House,' and the character I played, as far as I was concerned, had no redeeming features whatsoever. I wasn't about to try to find any; I didn't need to.

I think that characters who are nice all the time and who you sympathize with can get really boring.

I mean, I'm obviously not one of those people who's so beautiful women take their clothes off when I walk into the room. I didn't become a star overnight.

You have to be brave and not always play likeable people. It's difficult, because there's a demand for the hero or heroine to be very likeable.

Why should every single character be an honor student who goes around helping others and never doing anything wrong? Is that like the rule or something?

Actually, I can't imagine anything more tedious than a perfect person, especially if it was someone who also demanded perfection from me.

The interesting thing about my character Sylar is that my strengths as an actor seemed to go completely against the shape of a character in the shadow.

I liked 'Scream of the Banshee' because it was a real challenge. I thought, 'How am I going to pull off this character?' But, I also thought, 'Oh, man, I'm going to go for it.' He's got all the defects of character that an actor loves to play. So, I had a really great time.

I felt like I had to be, you know, perfect, which is ridiculous. Nobody's perfect.

As an actor, my job is not to always play characters who make everybody happy. That's not interesting.

Flawless' is an unattainable thing.

I always say, 'Perfection is the flaw. It doesn't exist.' I saw something somewhere about 'porcelain pores' - you're not even allowed to have pores anymore!

I like a role where some of the character's motivations are confusing or at least interesting.

As silly as it sounds, I want to do some sort of superhero type of role. That's always been something I'm interested in.

Nice characters are boring!

When complicated characters aren't well drawn, they're boring.

[J.F.Kennedy] is an iconic figure. And to make it even worse, he's a hero of mine. And every actor will tell you that you can't play heroes. And you can't play villains. You can only play human beings.

It was wonderful to be able to play a character who had so many colors and who was able to play comedy, to play incredibly vulnerable, which he did a lot of the time, to play the love story, and to play the relationship with the son, which is quite unusual. That's a gift to me, as an actor.

I read recipes the same way I read science fiction. I get to the end and say to myself "well, that's not going to happen