Bonnie Bedelia Quotes

I'm a character actor, but I look like a leading man.

I play so many weirdos in movies that it's nice to play an attractive woman.

I've probably said that in every feature I've been in. I've been repeatedly defined as the girlfriend or wife.

My looks haven't prevented me from playing prostitutes or people broken by life. But when they need a token blonde with big breasts, that's OK, too. It's part of the game.

I think I'm a character actress in a leading lady's body, but the industry doesn't really see me that way.

The only place that I'd be worried about being typecast is the independent film world.

There's an appetite for vigour in films. The camera loves a bit of movement. Movement is usually attached to younger people and men, and that's just the way it is. I think that it's a bitter pill to swallow, but it's a fact that there aren't going to be masses and masses of roles for older women because there isn't the audience for it.

As an actress, as you get older, you find yourself in a situation where you play mothers or women who are hoping to be mothers.

After 'Champion,' I got like 20,000 psychopath roles! And they wanted me to strip and show my body in every film. But I have tried to balance my roles.

After the release of movies like 'Chidambarathil Oru Appasamy' and 'Amirtham,' I was branded as an actress who can do only homely roles.

When you're a six-foot-four, two-hundred-and-fifty-pound dude, you're not the romantic lead.

In Bollywood, our actresses are majorly required to look pretty all the time.

I don't have the body or the face for romantic comedies, so I've never been offered those. The challenge is that a lot of people see you only as your last character, so you're constantly competing with whatever your last movie was.

Some people have said that I haven't got the parts I should've got because of the way I look.

If I showed you scripts from my first few movies, the descriptions of my characters all said 'the ugly girl'.

If you are a 19-year-old woman, there are very specific things that directors and the people in positions of power in the industry - who tend to be older men - are going to want you to be and do. They are not going to want some chatty, difficult, slightly spoilt girl.

My career seems to have worked out OK, especially since I turned 40. I've always had a character part, mind you - I've never played the princess. But if you're used to doing that, it must be soul-destroying to hit 40 and suddenly find there's nothing for you to do.

When you live in a leading lady's body, which I do, you have to constantly prove that you are funny.

I never get the tall, blonde, glamorous roles because I'm not tall, blonde and glamorous. I'm more the wee, disturbing characters because of the way I look or sound.

People figure because I'm blonde and was a model, I just waltzed into Los Angeles and got major roles in major films.

If you don't look like Rupert Graves or Hugh Grant, they'll have you playing the gardener.

I usually play character parts in Hollywood films.

I never played the 'decoration,' I always played the one who suffered. And then I got very lucky in my middle career, when I started playing the hero, which at that point was quite rare for women.

I used to play a lot of foreign women in my youth because I was prettier then. I would go for interviews, and directors would look at these sultry, exotic looks, hear this clipped accent and think the two don't go together. So they would give me a foreign accent.

I don't want to be the stupid blond. I want to be an actor.