Sonu Sood Quotes

I don't know what it is about me and this cop thing, but I get a lot of cop offers. Everyone always assumes that I'm someone on the force, but as long as they are paying me, I will play a cop until the day I die.

I've played outrageous characters my whole career.

That is the fun of being an actor. You play all different kinds of people.

My job is to play many different roles with all sorts of different backgrounds and orientations.

The thing about being an actor is that you're acting. It's not that big of a deal of to play someone different from yourself.

My job always is to play a person, not to judge her.

Being an actor myself I realize that all actors believe they are qualified to play any role. If you showed me a script with a black woman character I would tell you that I could do it. That is what we do. We act as if we are someone else.

In terms of the character itself, I can't really say that I find anything really difficult. I enjoy the character so much I don't perceive difficulty in trying to be him. It's just a matter of how do we get there.

I am a professional actor, and I don't go about moralizing about what the character does. Otherwise, seriously, why be an actor? You're not making some kind of social statement. That's not what actors do.

I try to bring elements of my own personality to every character I've played, but I think I'm pretty similar to the character I'm playing now. The biggest departure would have to have been Freaks and Geeks Sara, who was this sort of subordinate and shy girl.

What I love to do requires portraying different characters, and you have to separate your life from the role.

It would be easy to say that I want to play a role that was very much like myself, but more or less with acting, you get to be all these different things, and you aren't trying to be yourself, so it's escapism in a way.

I play a lot of hard men and gangsters, and I'm not like that at all.

As actors, you play people who are not yourselves!

I've never played anybody like a cop before.

I think the reason I'm an actress is because I love playing kind of a more extreme people.

I always figure hey, look, I'm not a rock star, I'm an actor. I'm somebody who's meant to be other people and I'm not meant to be here representing myself. I'm happier when I'm presenting myself as other characters.

I'd played dumbasses a lot. On Mad About You, I played a very dumb waitress and they saw me.

I'm an actor. I have to play weird characters, quirky characters, strange characters, sometimes characters I don't understand.

I play tons of authority figures, whether it's the dad or the cop or the boss. I think it's a combination of how I look, who I am.

My character in 'Hollyoaks' went through absolutely everything! There's not one emotion where I'm going to go, 'I don't know how to play this.'

I have played many cop roles in my career, and my effort is to make each role different.

I've always thought like I'm really a 3-feet-high comic trapped in a leading man's body... but then I played Nicholas Nickleby, and suddenly I was heroic.

I never judge the characters I'm asked to play, and I don't need to feel that they are a part of me.

I've always wanted to play a cop, desperately.