Nivin Pauly Quotes

Whenever I get a good script, I don't care whether it's telly or theatre or big screen - I'm not bothered.

Did Anthony Hopkins really have to be a serial killer to be in 'Silence of the Lambs?,' I don't think so, no. It's called acting, people.

Well, I suppose that, in a sense, every screen role is a favourite with me.

I think I have a lot to offer doing supporting roles as well.

I am looking to play powerful characters and as far as biopics are concerned.

I have done so many films in which either I have been the main lead or part of the supporting cast.

I am open to doing comedies, romantic stories, and commercial cinema, but it has to work for me so that I can give a year of my life in making it.

I've played a lot of mothers in my movies.

You can be the lead in a movie just for the sake of being a lead in a movie, or you can just be in a good movie.

The hardest thing to do in movies is be a day-part player. You have to go in, make your mark, and get out. There's a lot of leading actors who are not good for a lot of a movie, and then suddenly they have good moments, and they're like stepping-stones across a particularly feisty stream. They build careers out of that.

It's interesting going between small parts and then bigger roles where you carry the film. If the writing is good, and if the people involved have integrity, then you'll do it, even if it's only five minutes on screen.

As an actor, you want to do the best job possible, and you want the best scripts possible because it makes life more interesting.

Well, my favorite roles so far are Lucas and Lost Boys.

I think if you do something effectively whether you're the lover or the comic or the action guy or the villain like I play; movies are very expensive to make. Chances are you'll get asked to play that part again.

It doesn't interest me to be Harrison Ford. It interests me to be Mike Pomeroy and Indiana Jones and Jack Ryan. I don't want to be in the Harrison Ford business. I take what I do seriously, but I don't take myself seriously.

It doesn't matter if you're doing a studio movie or you're doing an independent movie. When you get to set and you're doing a scene, it's always going to be the same job. I really don't think about my career, in terms of planning it out and what this does for me.

Being an actor myself I realize that all actors believe they are qualified to play any role. If you showed me a script with a black woman character I would tell you that I could do it. That is what we do. We act as if we are someone else.

Movies are full of leading men, most of whom aren't working. It's much harder to find a good villain.

I'm always envious of the actors who get to come to work every day and really grow deep roots there, but it is really fun playing lots of different characters.

I don't mind playing the same character, but if it's not well done, then I'm not interested.

When I do film, I really take on roles and I take on characters.

Most of the time, actors respond to the thing that's so far from who they are. We all want to play the serial killer and the ex-con.

As an actor, you get to sort of bounce back and forth in terms of the age range you play and the life experience that your characters have.

The good and wonderful thing about my whole career is that I've always felt that the audience, if I do it well, will track wherever I go, whether it's President or a lawyer or bad guy or good. All I have to do is execute the material enough where they buy into it. I've had the great luxury of the audiences accepting that.

I like doing character movies. I like doing movies about personal situations; that's what I love about dealing with things.