Jitendra Kumar Quotes

If someone plays a brooding actor in a film, people think they're brooding all the time.

I try to bring my own style to a role, but I can't change how people think of me.

Playing a character for four years, in people's minds, that's who you are.

I always play these bad guys, and I'm really a nice guy.

I guess it's flattering that everyone believed I was those characters, but it also is dehumanizing.

I think part of my reputation has to do with the difficult roles I've played. Actors do tend to get identified with their characters.

I really enjoyed playing Freddie Cork. People are always scared to approach me because of the character I played in 'Brotherhood.' The writing was very smart.

I play a lot of hard men and gangsters, and I'm not like that at all.

Mum asks why I am so often cast in adulterous roles. I think it must be because I am fairly flirty.

I love the idea that somebody is going to compare me to my character or think that I am like my character when they see me. I feel like that is a role that I am willing to fulfill.

I think you get the parts that people are comfortable with seeing you play.

I was so irritated that people in Denmark considered me to be this serious guy who only did dramatic roles.

I once literally had a casting director ask my agent, 'Can she play anything other than a drunk?'

I did have a knack for playing weirdos. There's still sort of this perception of me out there as being this crazy guy.

You have to carry so many archetypes as an actor, especially as a blonde-haired, blue-eyed one.

I never get the tall, blonde, glamorous roles because I'm not tall, blonde and glamorous. I'm more the wee, disturbing characters because of the way I look or sound.

Because I was promoted as a sort of a siren and played all those sexy broads, people made the mistake of thinking I was like that off the screen. They couldn't have been more wrong.

There is no way you can get people to believe you on screen if they know who you really are through television.

I'm beginning to get pigeonholed as the girl who plays the crazies and weirdoes - and that's not the entirety of who I am. Hopefully, the whole point of being in this profession is that you change into anyone you want to be.

A lot of times, I feel like people come up to me because they think I'm like my character in 'Easy A', or because they've seen me in interviews, but really what they're a fan of is a movie or a character.

A lot of film stars are just playing themselves in different frocks.

I don't know what it is about me that gets cast in specific roles. Some people would say, 'You're just a pretty face,' but on 'Battlestar,' I'm not looking pretty every day. I'm pretty banged up.

Once you don't smile on film, they say, 'Let's have that bloke who doesn't smile.'

I do keep getting these bad girl roles. The funny thing is that, honestly, I don't think I'm believable as these aristocratic mean girls. But I do love playing them.

I've always felt that almost every part I've played has been a character part. I mean, I look at it that way. I can't help how I look or how I seem to people.