Nikita Dutta Quotes

I'd rather have a small part in a good film with good people than play the lead in something I don't really care for.

I would rather be called a character actor than a star.

Because I am a character actor, I thought I would be the fourth or eighth banana on a sitcom, and that would be OK.

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

I always thought of myself as a character actor. I never thought of myself as a leading man.

I don't feel like a romantic lead; I guess I feel more like a character actor.

I think every leading man wants to be a character actor, and every character actor wants to be a leading man.

I don't really think there's much difference between a character actor and a leading man besides aesthetics.

I have friends who are leading men, and they're only ever allowed to play leading men of a certain type. But as a character actor, there's a wider variety of projects available. On the big Hollywood films, all they care about is having their lead in place, so it's actually easier for someone like me to slip in. And I'm happy to do so.

If a film is good, it will work no matter what.

I'm a character actor, so I don't take the hit if the movie's bad, the lead does. So, I don't want to be the lead. He takes the hit, I don't.

I was always a character actor, basically, that sometimes looks like a leading man.

I had a kind of meandering little career, and then I was given a chance to play one of the bottom six in The Dirty Dozen.

I would prefer to direct without also starring in the same project.

I'd rather have one good scene in a movie by a great director than a small role in a mediocre movie.

I guess I've never really had a great desire to be a leading lady, or be seen as an ingenue.

I'm a character actress. It doesn't mean I can't do leading roles; I don't think of myself as a leading lady.

I love to star in movies, but I want to have good roles. It doesn't help to get starring roles in something that's no good. I mean, that will just kill you.

I always think it's better to take a smaller role in a great film rather than a leading role in something that you don't have complete faith in.

I'm just a character actor.

I've always done character roles and tons of movies as the so-called star, but I always felt I was one of the team.

I have done performance-based roles earlier, films which revolved around me. 'Kshatriya' was one such solid role. And, at that time, people had written good things about it.

I was never serious about Bollywood films, but when I was offered a film like 'Shanghai,' I took it because it is a good film.

It's not, like, how long you are on the screen, 'Karwaan' being the biggest the example. I may have had a five-minute role, but I know the appreciation that I got was a lot more than a five-minute role deserved probably.

Once I wanted to get into films, I took my time about it because when I first got to Bombay, I gave my photos and CDs to all the production houses. But the roles that came my way were the 'typical white girl dancing in the background' kind of roles, which I was not too interested in, or it was advertisements.