Nushrat Bharucha Quotes

People say to me, 'Why do you do these ugly parts?' And it's because at the end of the day, I'm an actress, and I crave the dark and the light within one job.

I loved doing 'Bad Moms.' I loved doing 'We're the Millers.' But now that I've tasted complexity, it doesn't matter what the genre is - it would be really hard to go back.

I am often asked which of my films has come closest to my own ideal of performance, and I always answer, 'Educating Rita.'

I don't pick roles based on how famous they are going to make me; I pick roles based on how they're going to inspire me intellectually.

I don't think it's a bad thing to go out there and challenge yourself as an actor.

My main goal, when I started acting, was to show as much versatility as possible because I like playing diverse roles.

The more complicated the character, the better I am. It's the one-dimensional crap that I had to do for years that drove me crazy.

An actor has to remember the primary reason why he chose the profession that he did. If every role that I do doesn't challenge me, then what is the point of being an actor?

Ideally, you end up going to auditions not because you want a job but because you want to try out a character.

Portraying emotionally ill characters gives me the chance to really act.

I don't have a specific type of role that I aspire to play or aspire to act. I really like a challenge and I really like doing things that are different because if I had to do the same thing all the time, then I don't think I would be an actor.

For me, I'm always looking for the opportunity for a character that challenges me and lets me play two for the price of one.

I didn't want to play a lawyer. I didn't want to play a doctor. I didn't want to play a single dad. I wanted to do something I felt I could learn from, something that would be a challenge and something that would not dry up.

I would love to do more movies. I'd like to get into some theater, too, if I could, just to learn more. I want to do gritty performances that I'm proud of. It doesn't matter to me if four people see it or millions of people see it, as long as I perform in such a way that people go, 'Wow!'

I just produced Criminal, this remake of Nine Queens, and one of the things that appealed to me about Nine Queens is that it was a performance piece, and that's the most fun.

I want to continually play characters that speak to me, but also are different than what I've just done.

This art of acting is a process I love very much. It's an unbelievably fulfilling experience for me and I look forward to building upon my art in the years to come.

It's kind of my whole philosophy as an actor. I think that's what we're supposed to do is play a wide range of characters - or it's just what I like to do, I should say. I like to try to be as different as I can from one thing to the next.

Because I like theatre and I love a challenge. With 'ZEBRA!' I've found a new Australian play where I can create a character first - that's what I live to do.

When I have to play the same role every day, I have the flexibility to play the character in so many different ways. It's almost like playing five different roles.

As an actor, you express certain things because they need to be expressed, and then you don't really feel a need to do it again. I want to feel something else, you know?

I now want to be playing parts more interesting to me and more exciting to me.

I don't mind playing bad guys, but I love having the opportunity to play all different types of characters.

My number one passion is acting, but I also think there's something so special in being able to support a script and an idea and take it all the way through to fruition. I think that process is so rewarding.

As you get older and you hopefully battle your own demons, you find other reasons why you want to be an actor. The people that I truly admire do this because they love telling stories and they love the make-believe of the moment and not so much the gratification afterwards.