Suhasini Mulay Quotes

I read so many scripts, and it's not really exciting to just be the girlfriend.

Women's lives get more interesting the older they get. For some reason, when you hit 35, it turns into a grey area filmically. There's not much more until you start playing grannies. I'm not ready for that. I'm just naffed off that, between 35 and 50, there aren't better things about.

I was comfortable in my thirties playing the romantic partner, the hero that saves the day, or the woman who is facing a world that revolves around younger kid actors.

At first I was always cast as the girlfriend. It was a long time before I got to play characters who were people.

Certain roles for older women are aimed at certain older actresses - I'm not one of those. I've been offered any number of Puerto Rican grandmas that I've turned down.

Parts that are desexed, matronly - to just put me in a couple of scenes and have me be the older, you know, dead character, is not gonna fly with me.

I became interested in educating people in the variety of ways in which women can express their emotion. Which is much easier to do in a large role than in a supporting role to a male protagonist. In general, the women in a supporting role to a male protagonist - cry a lot.

What bothered me was playing one-dimensional parts in films which were really about, 'Boy Meets Girl,' 'Will Boy Get Girl?'

It's nice to know that a studio is willing to put a female in a film without expecting the character to have a love interest.

I would like to do a nice comedy/drama feature with a good part, but nobody's asked me to do a film. Maybe it's because they don't know what to do with a guy in a dress.

In commercial cinema, roles for heroines are limited to being simple or glamorous. I don't want to fall into an image trap.

Hollywood is enamored of the 20- to 30-year-old actress, but by the very nature of the life experience of the character, the roles cannot be that rich. You can only have Angelina Jolie in a mental hospital so many times.

I am continuing to do lead roles and that is where I am actually headed, but doing cameos is also a fun experience.

One doesn't necessarily have to be grey-haired to portray a mother.

In Bollywood, everything is very one dimensional. This is a girl: she laughs a lot, is forever happy, chirpy, and that's all she is doing throughout the film. That's not how we are.

I have played mother many times in south films. And I really have no problem with it.

For me, playing a mother was a point of resistance; the question of 'will I get typecast' was going on in my mind.

The studios always had their idea of what I was, and they'd give me the dumb-blonde roles.

For a while, I thought that I was only going to be cast in Second World War films.

You get the older version of women that you've played before.

Often, female characters are quite one dimensional, especially in a two hour film; television gives characters room to breathe and develop.

Women over 30 are usually somebody's mother in a 'Porky's' movie, being silly and being ridiculed. There's just not a whole lot for them to do. It's just coffee-pouring on a bigger scale.

I think you get the parts that people are comfortable with seeing you play.

There's a history where, when women get to a certain age in this industry, the roles become strictly the mother, the wife, or the older single woman. There should be more of a variety because there are so many different paths that humans take, and they should be given a platform to be seen.

You see these casting directors' lists of characters, and they're all boxed in. Twenties is the hot girlfriend, thirties you can still be hot but moving swiftly to hot mum. Forties, you're the legal person in a pantsuit. Then, once you reach your fifties, you're positively elderly.