Richa Pallod Quotes

All work is important, no matter who gives it to you.

If you're doing creative work, that work should never feel trivial - even if what you're doing is for hire or lightly intended. Even the mundane doesn't have to be trivial.

All human stories are interesting. You don't put a kid in a show because you need a device. They have a story, too.

I can't be bought with money. If someone calls me and asks me to work for them for three or four years, and they'll pay me well to build their vacation home, I ask myself why I should work three or four years on something like that.

For most people, life would be boring without meaningful work.

You want to find a place where, because of your skills, you can make an impact.

There's no point in working if I'm not involved and interested.

If somebody is in a story, they need to be there for a reason, and not just to set up somebody else's story.

I consciously think about the ethnicity of every character that I create and cast. But one thing that is equally important is quality representation. It's not enough to put an African-American in there, a female in there, a gay character in there: How significant is their contribution? Can they drive the story?

I don't care about the length of anything I play, as long as it's a good character.

After 'Game of Thrones,' having a character like that, that's like the pinnacle of your career.

Regardless of whatever job you do, you want to see the importance of it or how it can be important. I think by inspiring the people that I come from - if I inspire anyone - would be worth it.

I do work that I feel I have something to contribute to.

It's often said that everybody has a story to tell, and I suppose that's true, but the problem is that most of them aren't worth telling.

I am lucky I got roles where I worked for just seven days and made equal impact with the hero who worked for 70 days.

It is not a lead part, but you could definitely say that 'Devdas' wouldn't move forward if it wasn't for me.

Irrelevance is the feeling that an employee gets when they don't see how their job really makes a difference in someone else's life in some large or small way.

'Happy Valley' is an extraordinary piece and it was not necessarily about Catherine but her part in the narrative.

I just want to do roles that are going to change one person's life.

There's a trend for people wanting more meaning in their work and pursuing something in the day-to-day that is valuable rather than working as a means to the end.

No role is big or small; every character does its magic and brings its own connect with the audience.

What's the point of doing a great character in a bad film? Instead, I want audiences to thoroughly enjoy a film and remember my part when they walk out of a cinema hall.

I have realized that there is no point doing a small film.

What your character does for a living is one of the most important choices you can make in a screenplay, even if their job is tangential to the story, because it tells you everything about the condition of their life. Are they doing what they love? Are they doing what they hate?

More than the length, it's the meat of the character that is more important. It does not matter if you are on screen, standing in the corner for the whole film, as opposed to doing something that stands out in two scenes.