As an actor, I tend to enjoy going to the dark side.
I don't know why I'm suddenly playing nasty people. It is very fun, though, and it isn't real, at the end of the day.
It's better to play negative lead roles than portray just any other character on the show.
I had a sympathetic role in 'thirtysomething,' and in two weeks I'm going to do the role again. But in the movies, I just love the heavies. It's much more fun. Villains are a ball. People have been laughing at me for 50 years, so I love to sit in the back of the theater and listen to them hate me.
I love playing villains.
A lot of people only see me as villains.
I have done comedy and romance. So I thought why not try negative roles too.
I tend to land roles that are somewhat villainous for some reason. Usually, people blame it on the accent.
If you're a woman doing classic theater, the big roles are often destroyers. I've played Hedda Gabler, Lady Macbeth, some of the Chekhovian heroines, Electra, Phaedra - they're all powerful women, but they're forces of negativity.
I've always played nice guys, so I'd love to be someone that creates a bit of confrontation. I know that sounds bad, but as an actor, I want to explore different things.
For me it's a compliment, playing baddie characters. I take it as a compliment.
To me, when I watch movies, it's always fun to watch the bad cop or the bad guy.
I don't think there are any negative roles anymore. I think we can aptly put such characters under 'anti-hero' tag.
I didn't come up in a culture or society that looked on me as a movie star. I was the bad guy. I was fortunate enough to be cast in some roles that weren't bad, were positive.
It's true in the beginning I started playing villains, and I think that's pretty clear, because if you don't conventionally look a certain way and you've got a certain kind of presence when you're young, then what's available to you is character roles, and the best character roles when you're young tend to be villains.
Well, I've always been a character actor, you know, and you always get your share of character actors who are bad guys.
I think of myself as a fairly decent human being and it gives me great pain to be considered for all the mean S.O.B.s that come along. I've played bird decapitators, puppy stranglers, woman beaters, wife poisoners, child molesters - every goddamn thing you can think of. It was quite scene there for a while. But I think the image is changing...I hope to God the old image is fading from people's minds.
Frankly speaking, I don't want to be typecast as someone who only does negative roles.
I don't know myself why directors are offering me negative roles, although I did 'Yaddein' after 'Mission Kashmir' in which I played a very positive character, but people don't remember that.
Yes, I have done many roles with negative shades, such as 'Awara Paagal Deewana' and 'Champion.' But in 'Ashoka,' I played a positive character.
I keep getting cast as this bad guy, and I don't know why.
I have played nasty people, but not everyone has seen that stuff. Before 'The Office,' I mainly got cast as little toe-rags.
I am a little bored of playing negative characters.
I do prefer playing baddies because you can push being horrible as far as you want.
I don't mind playing absolute bastards... I just don't want to play the grouch.
