Prithviraj Sukumaran Quotes

Several southern actors are coming to Mumbai. Likewise, many Bollywood actors are appearing down South or borrowing ideas from southern films.

In New York I was always offered the hot, sexy roles. But in L.A. I was offered the plain, dowdy roles. It says a lot about the difference between the coasts.

People figure because I'm blonde and was a model, I just waltzed into Los Angeles and got major roles in major films.

If you're a sexy actress, it's hard to get serious roles. You get offered the same thing they've seen you in. People are like sheep, and they're like, 'Oh, that's what she does well.'

With 'Broadcast News,' it became a non-issue, and with 'The Piano,' it became a non-issue. Both parts were written for more statuesque women. It was nice to change people's minds about that, because that's neither here nor there.

Every time I work with real Southern actors... we immediately go into white trash, and we just get along really well within one night, you know.

In South, the actresses are expected to be fuller, unlike Bollywood. The sensibilities are totally different.

Villains are always the best roles, but that meant that for months afterwards, all I got offered were absolute cads and bounders and really nasty pieces of work, as well as a lot of people who only had one arm. Such is the limited imaginative power, you see, of a great many casting directors.

I would even love to do a Bengali film if a good offer is made to me.

Before 'Rangeela' happened to me, all that was offered to me were song-and-dance roles.

I didn't want to get typecast doing an item number in 'Corporate,' so I didn't do it then.

I've had a fantastic career playing great parts. In many ways, the colour of my skin has been an asset because I've been asked to play certain roles as a result. I don't apologise for playing them anymore than Robert de Niro is sorry for playing American-Italians.

I don't think international cinema is ready to embrace mainstream Indian cinema unconditionally. Even Mira Nair's 'Monsoon Wedding' didn't get to the Oscars after being nominated for the Golden Globe Awards.

Before I came to Bollywood, lot of people told me that here things are not very professional, but I've had no such experience.

If you do an item song, then you're categorized as an item girl; if you focus on acting, you're categorized as an actor.

To be very frank, I never got very good offers from Hindi cinema until 'Eega.' Now, I'm flooded with offers.

After 'Satya,' the industry could not think of me as anything but the villain. They were stereotyping me on the basis of my looks. I lost so much money refusing such roles - the purchase of a new house got delayed by seven years because I said no.

People will put me in whatever box they feel the most comfortable having me in, and nothing I can do will change that.

You walk into a room and there's already judgment. You know, like football players can't act or you're going to come in and be stiff.

People tend to typecast you in a certain way, depending on the kind of work you have been doing till then.

I am keen on doing the regular Hindi film, but I want strong, meaningful roles in my repertoire, which I get down South. I can devote equal time and attention to both, so I don't see the clash.

Every time I'm a good guy in a movie, which is the 'Marine,' people are like, 'Wow, you can play endearing. You can play kind and nice and sweet but yet hardcore.' And I'm like, 'Yeah. Just because The Miz is a jerk and an egotistical maniac doesn't mean that there isn't a softer side to Mike Mizanin.'

I love the fact that Bollywood is getting so much more globalised. Instead of us looking out there, people are looking to India and coming to us!

I knew that in Hollywood they tend to pigeonhole talent, and when you experience a little success in one genre, their instinct is to keep you in that box.

I feel like, for so many years in the industry, LGBT-identifying actors were told to play small or water themselves down or 'butch it up,' whether you're a male and you're only going out for straight characters because gay characters aren't being written, or you're a woman and you're told to 'femme it up' to play the leading lady role.