Shweta Tripathi Quotes

I've always played characters that were younger than myself.

I was 28 when I played the role of a 65 year old man in my first film.

As an actor, it's really exciting and challenging to play a character which is much older than your actual age.

In 'Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid,' I play a schoolteacher who is older than I am in life - and I like that.

I tend to play a lot of characters that are 10 or 15 years older than me.

I just don't think I can write someone drastically younger than me.

I was 28 years old playing a 16-year-old. I just kept my mouth shut. I never talked about it.

I really love playing a character that's a little younger than me, to be honest. Because even if it's just three years, I can bring perspective into it.

I was 38 when 'Not Going Out' began, and I was playing a 34-year-old who had a thing about his landlady.

It isn't often I get a part that enables me to play someone from the age of 13 up to 81.

That was the hardest thing for me. When it was published that I was going to play Tommen, all the fans of the books were like, 'Oh, he's turning 16' - that was the hardest thing: to play younger and show that.

You can play older than yourself. You can play younger than yourself up to a point, and then that just becomes impossible because you carry a weight with you that you can't shift, unless you have very boyish looks.

I think, at the end of the day, age is just a number. It's like, in real life, I've got friends who are dating someone their age or dating someone who's twice their age, and they're equally in love.

Winston was a bit of a challenge, all right, from a lot of different perspectives. It wasn't just the culture or the class divide or the historical baggage - it was also the age difference. We had to see if I could be aged-up legitimately, without it becoming some sort of hokey acting challenge.

On my show, I'm definitely the youngest one. So going from a show where everyone is over 30, to the movie, where everyone was like 20, 25, it was like summer camp.

They used to say I was a younger Winona Ryder and that always made me laugh because I'm three years older than she is.

I guess as long as people think of me for different ages, I'll trust their opinion. I remember noticing one year that Michelle Monaghan played 34 and 19, so I've kind of clung to that as my justification that I can be Jake Gyllenhaal's wife and a freshman in college in the same year.

It wasn't sexual in its element. I wasn't being exploited. I was doing what happened. It was very challenging because I played Phyllis from 15 years old to 53 when she died of breast cancer.

Even in five years time, he will still be four years younger than Damon Hill.

In 'George Lopez', I played Veronica who's a bratty 18-year-old, and so I feel like it's much easier for me to play that because I feel like a late bloomer. It wasn't difficult or challenging at all because it's not like I haven't been a teenager.

I often played nice guys when I was younger, and it's nice to be able to explore the darker side.

51st State was one that I loved doing because the character was so out there, and in a way I was sad to leave the character behind. I'm afraid I could never be that cool in real life!

I think Michael Crawford realised, I think we all realised, once we'd gone the route of casting a very young girl, you can't really cast a 65 year old man opposite. Slightly different resonance I think. No, we weren't going to go there. We'd have Jack Nicholson in the lead.

I have been really lucky to play roles younger than myself for most of my career.

We play many emotions in our careers, emotions that in real life we would perform just once. For example, my character has died in about 10 films, so you have to keep searching for different ways to do it!