Genelia D'Souza Quotes

I love going back and forth from drama to comedy. I love switching it around and showing people that I can do both.

In reality, for me every role is completely different.

All of us have a lot of sides to ourselves, but the fun thing about being actor is you make one side predominant for the character you're playing.

I try to bring elements of my own personality to every character I've played, but I think I'm pretty similar to the character I'm playing now. The biggest departure would have to have been Freaks and Geeks Sara, who was this sort of subordinate and shy girl.

My job is to play many different roles with all sorts of different backgrounds and orientations.

I have played a boxer, a cowboy, a knight, a prince, an elf and a pirate. I am so glad to have done all of that already.

You have to carry so many archetypes as an actor, especially as a blonde-haired, blue-eyed one.

Being an actor gives you a chance to play all kinds of roles, very moving and dramatic on one project, silly and girlish on another. That's the most interesting thing out this business, you get to keep reinventing yourself.

Depending on the show, I've played a cop, a criminal, or a victim. So there's a range.

I don't know what it is about me that gets cast in specific roles. Some people would say, 'You're just a pretty face,' but on 'Battlestar,' I'm not looking pretty every day. I'm pretty banged up.

I love doing roles and movies that are different from each other.

I play a huge variety of roles.

You know to me, being a good actor, the most important quality is you've got to love to play, and to just be open to anything.

I do keep getting these bad girl roles. The funny thing is that, honestly, I don't think I'm believable as these aristocratic mean girls. But I do love playing them.

That's the joy of getting to be an actor - getting to play all kinds of different roles and showing so many different sides of yourself.

What I love to do requires portraying different characters, and you have to separate your life from the role.

For me, the performance was always playing different people. And so when I got older, was no longer the romantic leading movie star, it became more and more interesting for me, the characters I played, you know?

I love being the character actor. I get to stretch my muscles a little more.

I think Ryan Gosling is a really great actor who's meticulous about his work. And I'd love to have the guts that Johnny Depp has to actually go outside the box on a character. When he plays a character, he plays it in a way that nobody else would.

And as much as I love the gritty characters, I like to play all sorts of characters. I'm an actor. I love to create.

I think being a character actor is exciting in that it allows you to embody completely different things, whether it's through wild accents or a crazy bad guy or a drunken good guy.

Any opportunity I can get to showcase different characters, I absolutely love.

It's so funny because the roles that I've been offered in the indie film world have been similar to each other, and the roles that I've been offered in the TV world have been similar to each other, but the TV roles and the indie film roles have been completely different.

Over a spell of about three years, I played a series of roles that were, for me, all very different, but most of them came out within a six-month period. They all dealt with a kind of dark territory that in some cases had been mined before in movies.

I usually do get to play the very sweet, charming roles... but I'm not an obvious kind of villain.