Didi Conn Quotes

I prefer being the protagonist.

She's a very charismatic character, and she holds the whole play together.

I have absolutely no interest in playing the young male lead around which a story happens.

Protagonists traditionally are active characters.

Everybody wanted to be the hero of their own story. Nobody wanted to be comic relief.

I was going to be the hero of the movie [The Lost World]. I had to speak up and be like, "Shouldn't I be the one doing that?

If you watch that show and you didn't know it was called Seinfeld, you'd think it was called 'The George Costanza Show'.

The star, the person who's on the mic, always gets seen.

To me, there was something moving about the idea of telling the story of a lady who is, in a way, a forgotten character - someone who would normally be a secondary role in a movie.

Obviously I will promote 'Vaalu.' It is my film. I am the lead actress in it; I play a major part, and I will promote the film.

'Liv and Maddie' actually started out as a different show called 'Bits and Pieces,' and it was a completely different plot, although it was the same cast.

Every experience I've had with 'Power' has been so great, so to become a series regular was fantastic.

What I needed to do was carve out parts for me, roles for me that weren't just the sidekick, where I got to be the lead, because that's breaking through.

I do films in which I have an important character.

My only criteria while selecting roles is that it should be a lead part in an interesting story where the character has depth and layers.

Every young actor wants this feeling of being the solo lead in a film.

I'm having more fun working on 'Eerie, Indiana' because I have the leading role, and this is more of a lighter type of show.

With all of our big-hit shows - like 'Big Bang Theory,' and even 'How I Met Your Mother' - when they first started, you have multiple characters to service, and you want to make sure that the audience has a chance to get the concept, get the emotional arc, and really engage with the relationships.

As far as television is concerned, I'm just not interested in working on a series. Why should I settle for being someone's second banana? And that weekly grind is unrewarding and too demanding.

My most memorable role would have to be Agnes Calay of 'Forevermore,' probably because it was my first lead role.

When Melissa McCarthy came out with 'Bridesmaids,' all of a sudden you saw a plus-sized woman who had three dimensions, was not an appendage, was pivotal to the plot.

I've gotta check, but I think I'll be the first UFC fighter in history to have the lead role in a big movie.

'Humsafar' was the show that made me popular.

Personally, I believe that playing the lead antagonist is always better than a character artiste, whose weightage isn't much.

The idea behind 'Gloria' was to take a secondary character - the aunt, the mother - and stay with her as she becomes our protagonist.