I think there are probably a handful of real character actors in this business. The rest of us are recycling. So now I'm Sam Malone the editor. I'm Sam Malone the billionaire.
When someone gets closely related to a character they play on TV, it's very hard to break that mold and go on to do something else.
I always seem to get parts where I play the sports professional - and that's not me at all!
Potentially, you do inhabit different worlds. And while there are no specific roles I'm burning to play, as far as acting in the future goes, I'd really like to have done searing work.
Our Bollywood industry works in such a way that when an actor is seen in a gangster's role, he is offered similar roles.
I don't want to play the same person twice, that's not why I wanted to act.
The progression of roles you take strings together a portrait of an actor, but it's a completely random process.
Theater actors like to change character roles. They don't like to always do the same thing.
I don't want to do the nerdy, goofy guy again. That was really fitting for the 'Napoleon' world, but that's kind of where I want it to stay.
