I like a lot of Tom Cruise's roles, he's this action hero.
Actors usually feel skeptical about double hero films because one character might overshadow the other, but the late scriptwriter K. Subash has penned 'Karuppu Raja Vella Raja' in such a way that Vishal and I have equal scope in the film.
Fame is useful in certain ways, because it helps you get more roles.
In my horror movies, I was always trying to deal with real characters and real character drama played by good actors... Laura Linney, Ethan Hawke, Eric Bana, and Tom Wilkinson, people who don't do horror normally.
I think as far as straight actors playing gay roles, "Brokeback Mountain" was a big breakthrough. I'm pretty sure when they were casting that movie that - I think the story is, like you know, 10 to 15 other actors turned it down.
Take characters that Nicholson or De Niro play: they're not always tough.
In 'Taxiwaala,' I am not Arjun Reddy. In fact, the two characters are so different that if they were to meet, they'd hate each other.
If you are working in the Hindi film industry, you cannot escape playing a police guy more than three times.
I came in thinking about Bobby Ewing, but I love this Ray Krebbs role.
Is typecasting really a problem?
I have stopped looking at roles as lead or parallel lead. Also, I feel these are very misleading terms.
Most dictators were short, fat, middle-aged and hairless. Besides Danny Devito, there's only me to play them.
I'm not trying to be an action star, and I'm not trying to be a romantic-comedy guy.
I think of myself as a character actor, compared to a straight actor. I know a character actor in England is pretty much the same as in the States; you're actually hired to put on terrible teeth and stuff like that.
People are so used to seeing John Goodman as a lovable dad or the quirky characters he played in the Coen Brothers films.
There's a fine line between lead actor and supporting actor.
To get a movie star, you have to give them two hours of screen time.
I stay away from the elf roles; I stay away from playing a leprechaun. All the roles I try to do are something that an average actor would do.
I think all actors are supposed to be character actors.
Ultimately, if you look at the characters in my films, you'll see a lot of similarities going all the way back to 'Swingers' with Vince Vaughn's character.
Before he played CIA Director Saul Berenson on 'Homeland,' a much younger Mandy Patinkin gained some fame as Inigo Montoya, a legendary swordsman, in 'The Princess Bride.'
I think the bad-guy roles are fun - there are more of them, and they're written more colorfully.
The speed at which cinema is changing, the definition of hero is also changing. Even a big superstar like Aamir sir plays the role of a father. There's action genre, where you have to show body and do stunts, so you may call that a hero.
I was only a leading man for a minute; now I'm a character actor.
As an actor, you can play different age ranges and different ethnicities.
