Payal Rohatgi Quotes

I think the world has too many actresses.

I have a theory that most people in Hollywood are from Texas.

This actress named Lisa Eilbacher. I was up for the part in Shampoo and friends of mine kept telling me she was going around saying all these bad things about me. It's like we're still in the sixth grade sometimes.

It is a common perception that actors don’t get along.

It's very difficult today for girls to become supermodels. There is a lot more competition, a lot of countries in the East have opened up so there are many more models than there were in the Nineties. Now they have to compete with famous actresses but also with, say, reality stars to be on the magazine covers.

Conflict is always fun to play.

I think sports makes for good drama because it has all the same ingredients as anything worth reading or listening to or watching. Conflict, desire, heartbreak - it's all there.

There's no drama like wrestling.

A powerful studio boss doesn't want to be bested by a woman, even in chess. And a successful agent steps on a lot of toes. You lose actors jobs so you can get them for your own clients.

I do like reality shows, and I watch some of them because they're high drama. It's also just fun to watch people have honest reactions.

Popstars really draws you in. It's fascinating. It's interesting to watch people thrown together in that kind of a situation. Even if the egos weren't involved and they weren't trying to be world famous. It's the Real World, only better.

It is a reality show... this show is never without drama.

I've always had an incredible interest in the villains, which are a lot more fun to play.

You can't really class all reality shows together. For instance, 'Top Chef' is about talent and competition. 'Big Brother' is more like what happens when you get all those narcissistic personalities crammed in together... and there are limits to that.

People like to see showdowns.

I don't see myself as competing with other actresses. I mean, I went through a time when I was in New York, and I was going to lots of auditions and trying to get parts, but even then, you're not really competing with the other actresses. There is a competition going on, but it's not like something you can win in that way.

An actress, around 40, on television, that's where you get the most torture, I think.

In Hollywood, women hate each other.

Working on a film, you don't get time to develop rivalries, but the theatre is like a little village, and the differences between me, Lionel and Georgia grew.

There are a lot of good actresses out there.

On all the 'Housewives' shows, there's always some wannabe wife who's always sticking her head in.

A boxing match is like a cowboy movie. There's got to be good guys and there's got to be bad guys. And that's what people pay for - to see the bad guys get beat.

Actors talking about themselves. Nothing better!

On the whole, the politics of moviemaking is something that actors are kind of blissfully ignorant of.

TV shows always pit girls against each other; there's always a nemesis.