Neha Dhupia Quotes

Having a persona people recognize, it's the thing that probably gets you paid the most - but it's also the thing that virtually every actor in the world doesn't want. 'Cause, like, no one would believe me if I wanted to play something ultra-realistic, like a gangster or something.

Typecasting is something I have to be careful with, since I play myself on Geek & Sundry so much on my weekly show 'The Flog.' That's why I did 'Dragon Age: Redemption' last year, so I could do something a little more dramatic and hard-edged.

I was always a character actor. I just looked like Little Red Riding Hood.

I've made the transition from star to character actor and I'm thoroughly enjoying it.

I play a lot of hard men and gangsters, and I'm not like that at all.

I think I would not be described as a character actor in that I don't take on characteristics which are very alien to me.

An actor is like a piece of clay: you just keep moulding me. Even people who work with you every day want to put you in a little box.

I started as an actor in the theater playing a lot of character parts, and suddenly, I found myself in this place where it felt like I was getting locked into a kind of a stereotype, and it did bother me.

If you're looking to be loved for a part, it's great and enticing to be adorable in a romantic comedy. But then, as an actor, you get stuck.

I started out in the 1970s doing the Wife, the Bimbo, and the Ditz, and if I somehow get a serious role, they all wanna know the same thing: When are you going back to comedy?

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

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.

I don't have one specific dream role: I'm an actor, so I want to play everything. In this business, they'll pigeonhole you in two seconds if you're great at the role you play. Everyone assumes that you're really just like that character.

What attracted me to acting, from the start, was playing different characters. I'm not a massive fan of just playing myself on screen.

An actor is an impersonator; he plays many different roles. If you played the same role all the time, God - that'd be a boring career. When you take on different roles and become a different person, that's called acting... It's a challenge.

Acting is about covering up traces of who you are and just being the character. I think it's easier to accept people in roles if you don't know a lot about them.

I think any actor in their right mind is afraid of getting pigeonholed.

I'm a character actor and I get lost in these characters, so I think it's only recently that people have begun to connect dots and go, 'Oh, that's the same person that did this, this, this, this and this!' which I take as a compliment. One time somebody called me an illusionist, and that was the nicest thing anyone has ever said.

I became an actor so I didn't have to be myself.

I did television a lot in my earlier years, so to do the high school student that's just the pretty girl, I've done that before, so I don't have any interest in that.

I never act my characters - I am them.

When I act, a part of me goes into the character I am playing.

I like roles that people don't recognize me in.

I don't get offered many dramatic roles. As soon as my face pops up in a movie, everyone knows I'm the funny guy.

Don't think for a moment that I'm really like any of the characters I've played. I'm not. That's why it's called 'acting'.