Vishwajeet Pradhan Quotes

I feel as though my career really hit its high point when I was cast as a supporting actress in 'American Wedding'. I thought the script had a lot of depth and intelligence, and it really just jumped off the page.

I got to work with Cillian Murphy and my dad, Jim Broadbent and Jodie Whittaker on 'Perrier's Bounty.' It was a small part, but it was really special.

I never had a great role in a great film.

The best part of working on 'Baywatch' is to be the villain of the movie. I don't think The Rock, aka Dwayne Johnson, has ever had anyone who's been mean to him.

The hardest thing to do in movies is be a day-part player. You have to go in, make your mark, and get out. There's a lot of leading actors who are not good for a lot of a movie, and then suddenly they have good moments, and they're like stepping-stones across a particularly feisty stream. They build careers out of that.

Uncle Junior is a criminal, which makes him a villain, so it makes people want to watch him. My whole life as an actor has been preparing for something like this.

As an actor I'm part of a long line of character people you can take back to the silent movies.

I come from the theater, and I've done a lot of character work in the theater, but Hollywood stuff in film and TV, they've been more leading lady/ingenue type roles.

I built my entire career off of teen comedies. I was in 'Bring It On'.

I did pilots here and there but mostly I was doing little bits in movies.

I think my favorite role was playing Sarah Baker in 'Cheaper by the Dozen 1.' It was my first movie, and I worked with amazing professionals who had such strong work ethics that I immediately learned how to work in this industry.

It was an interesting way to come across in my first big role. To work with Robert DeNiro was very exciting.

When I auditioned for 'Wedding Crashers,' the producers had never seen any of my other work except for Bond. I got 'Wedding Crashers' partly because I was a Bond girl.

It's funny because I've resisted acting as a career for most of my life. But both my parents told me if I ever want to direct, I should act first because no director should direct until they know what it's like to be in the actor's shoes.

I acted for so many years and sat on a million sets and worked with a million different directors so that is to me some of the best training you can get.

I never took any theater lessons. So when I started to do movies, I was 14.

I'm not an actress, you know. I don't know what's going on. And I'm supposed to be the villain.

My very first audition was for 'Hot Girl #1' in some movie.

My career plan at this point is 'Ice Age 5' through '10,' and even '12,' and 'Spider Man' - you know, basically I'd be Emma Stone's dad for the rest of my career. I really don't have any problem doing that.

I did a movie with Clint Eastwood and I knew I wasn't going to be able to 'out-man' him.

I remember that Jack Lemmon, who is one of my favorite actors of all time, says that the day he stops being nervous is the day he should leave the business.

I was lucky enough to have a plethora of types of roles before and during the horror movie part of my career.

I got an agent and went up for the part of my first film, Five Gates to Hell.

Coming from theater, and having been to acting school, and done little, small Australian independent movies, a lot of the time, it's always about character.

It has been a great experience to act in Hollywood movies with actors like Ben Kingsley.