Rishi Kapoor Quotes

I love playing 'Madame Vastra.' Although I do suffer, spending three-and-a-half hours in make-up every morning to have her lizard skin put on. I was so excited the first day when we did the make-up test, but after six hours, I was like, 'Can we finish now?'

'Insaaf' gives me a chance to play another challenging role after Mahesh's 'Vaastav.'

I put on close to 60 pounds for 'Genesis,' an independent movie from New Zealand.

To play a Punjabi guy in 'Rab se Sohna Isshq,' I had to put on muscle.

It was quite difficult to play the role of a scientist in 'Hasee To Phasee.'

I did a film a few years ago where I gained a lot of weight for it. I was happy to do that because it was called for in the script.

In 'Begum Jaan,' a lot of people did not recognize me as my look was different. That is the big thing and it means you have gone so much into your character.

In 'Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid,' I play a schoolteacher who is older than I am in life - and I like that.

The cool thing about my character was that it's not that digital. I get to put hours of prosthetic makeup on and see a different creature altogether. I've seen how he looks and it's really cool.

There are only three reasons to do a movie: the cast, the director, the role. Like I say, you live in a minute of screen time, but to prepare for the minute takes much more than a day. You'd better be excited about what those moments are, even if they're the hardest moments. Or the smallest.

'The Elephant Man' was hugely enjoyable to do. I thought the one stage, when Chris Tucker did the first makeup and it took 12 hours, I thought they'd actually found a way for me not to enjoy filming.

'Hunger Games' was an awesome job. I never had to learn any lines. I never had to do any ADR.

While shooting for 'Kodi' at Pollachi, I got this new idea for 'VIP 2'.

When you're with another actor who's also been through five hours of prosthetic makeup, and you're eating another person's neck, and fake blood is being spurted out at you for two minutes, it's incredibly fun, and you're in character for that time. You can't really believe that that's your job.

With a project like 'The 5th Wave,' you do something you would never do in your normal life; I would never have had S.W.A.T. training or boot camp, and there's something really cool about learning stuff like that that's really fun about our job.

My initial attraction to 'Red Tails' was the opportunity to play a character that was not me. 'Stomp the Yard' was a great film, but I played myself there.

In 'Reggaeton' in particular, I get the opportunity to show my range as an actor. I have scenes where I cry and a love scene. I think people may be pleasantly surprised at what they see.

I'd jump to do a film with Aamir Khan. Aamir thinks through things before starting a project.

Well, it definitely comes as a challenge to act as enemies onscreen when you bond with the opposite person very well off-screen.

I have not only played light-hearted roles, but many times, I end up playing this annoying girl in films.

I loved my role in 'Learning to Drive.' It was so different.

I just did what the script demanded from me in 'Uyir.' I felt it was indeed a challenging role for me.

Both 'Saraswatichandra' and 'Mahakumbh' are extremely close to my heart. The shows are polar opposites and so are the characters but I have loved being a part of both of them.

When we have a lot of the running, which we do on green screen, that is actually the hardest... I swear I have, like, four separate scenes in a row running, and I'd only done one at a time before.

De Niro didn't gain all that weight to play Jake La Motta just to prove he could get fat - every single one of those transformative things is grounded in the character.