Roop Durgapal Quotes

I don't think you can play a villain with a negative point of view.

Being an actor, I have no issues with a character being negative or positive as long as the role is substantial and meaty.

I bring my own energy to any part, and in 'Siblings', I get to bring my horrible side.

Good guy' or 'bad guy', hero or anti hero; doesn't matter to me, what role I play, only the character have something magical.

I've never seen any character I've ever played as a bad guy or a good guy.

I'm not interested in the heroes or the villains. I'm interested in playing people.

So you can't judge the character you're playing ever.

I always try to make each character my own.

I think the reason I'm an actress is because I love playing kind of a more extreme people.

When I was in theater I was forever trying to inhabit a space which puts yourself under the microscope as an actor and your personality and your take on life, but actually through another portal of a character.

Villains never know they are villains in a picture so I play this like I'm the nicest guy in the world.

You draw on whatever's relevant to the part you're playing; it makes it more personal.

I am happy to play the bad man.

I play a crazy talk-show host, but that's not me. It's like an actor playing a role.

You know, the best-laid plans of mice and men... I like playing bad guys, and I don't have a problem doing that. They're interesting characters, and there's as many different kinds of bad guys as there are good guys - they're rich, they're strong, they're powerful, and so that's fine with me.

The thing about villains is most people play them with the shifty eyes and all that, whereas I play them as good guys. 'Cos everyone thinks they're a goodie, don't they?

I like to play characters, man. I almost don't even think of them as good guys or bad guys. I know that's a hard thing to realize, but I really just think of them as characters.

I don't have to talk to a surgeon to play a surgeon, you know what I mean?

There is a lot of myself in every character that I play.

I played an old woman in a wheelchair at 18.

Every character I play is me.

To portray a real-life character is the toughest job for an actor because one never knows which direction to flow.

I work according to the kind of character they want me to play.

I don't play roles, I play characters. There is a vast difference between the two.

I'm not a critic. I'm an actor. I see the role I get given on the page. I try to bring it to life as best as I can.