There is nothing better than playing a bad girl for two months, then turning around and playing someone sweet. Films give you this opportunity.
It's funny landing parts now where I'm somebody's mum. I remember the first time I was asked to play a mum. I was easily old enough, but because I didn't have any children, I thought, 'That seems really grown-up.'
The priest promotes war, and the soldier peace.
Adults acting like children and children acting like adults is generally a pretty reliable comic device.
I played a bahu for six years on-screen. I really wanted to come out of that.
I will be seen as a software engineer in 'Betaludu.' My character is totally different from what I have played in the past.
I need someone physically stronger than me.... I am always on top. It's really unfortunate. I am begging for the man that can put me on the bottom. Or the woman. Anybody that can take me down.
The other night a mugger took off his mask and made me wear it.
A character on a page has to feel real, and for me the greatest fun is if you could gender-swap the role.
It's funny how you can be thought of as somebody who humanizes bad guys, and I'll take that, but it is something that gave me pause, and I started speaking to my team about finding a good guy.
The world of knowledge takes a crazy turn when teachers themselves are taught to learn.
It's the student who makes the teacher, not the other way around.
Our image has undergone change from David fighting Goliath to being Goliath.
It's so easy to get used to playing a role. Then all of the sudden when you're tossed out of it, it's almost like you have to remember how to act again!
I've never yet met a man who could look after me. I don't need a husband. What I need is a wife.
Becoming a mother doesn't always change every aspect of your personality.
Normally, I'm the one fawning over the man, but in 'Call The Midwife,' I'm the experienced woman.
Scratch an actor and you'll find an actress.
Usually I do everything reverse. I practice something in movies and then I try it in real life.
In fact, it was the women in our house who were in the saddle. If men are the gods, women are not only the presidents but all the ministers of the government.
It's weird, because usually if you're British and you go to America you play baddies; but I play naughty people here and goodies in America.
For acting, if there's a strong female role and there is that action element, for me that just feels really natural.
I am playing the character of Sanjana in 'Race 3' and it is very a dark character in the initial phase of the film but towards the end, it gets transformed into a positive character.
We were never intimate mother and children while she was our mother - but... when she became our child, the affection came.
It would perhaps be nice to be alternately the victim and the executioner.
