Abhimanyu Singh Quotes

I wouldn't say that I haven't got my fair share of good roles. This industry has been very kind to me.

I want to do something that is meaningful. After working for all these years, I want to do better as an actor now and choose roles that are challenging and satisfying.

There are some jobs that you go for because achieving them would take your career in a direction that you would like it to go, but mostly, I want to play the roles and have had the great good fortune and opportunities to play some fantastic roles and been very, very fortunate.

I don't think you can discriminate against budgets, you know? I'm an actor, I guess, so I'm just trying to play as many characters as I can. If there's a character I think I can play, and they're going to let me do it, I'll do it whether it's $10 or $1 million or more.

As actors, you like to think about the luxury of having choices in your career, but for the most part you kind of take whatever comes your way and hope that you carved out something that you're proud of in the end.

I think you have to be really lucky to pick the sort of roles you want to do.

I have been fortunate to experience a wide range of characters. What more can an actor ask for?

I've done a handful of great roles.

I've spent a lot of time playing roles that didn't really challenge me. I suppose every actor feels that way.

I have no hesitation in taking up more acting assignments if good roles come.

I have been offered roles in mainstream films which have not been interesting to me. They have been too insignificant.

Ideally, for me, the power of appreciation lies in getting better roles and being given more responsibility as an actor.

I think if you're able to do over the course of your career 20, 30, 50 very wonderful rich characters, you'd rather have that than an Oscar.

Most actors are very grateful for what is as opposed to what will be. You spend 98% of your time looking for a job, so when you get it, it's fantastic.

As an actor, you just want to continue to work on things that you like. You can be in this business a long time and consistently working and just be totally artistically unfulfilled.

I'd like to work more, but I don't just want to do kind of generic characters. I want to do interesting characters, and I'd like to be cast against type.

I'm not sure I'll find acting satisfying creatively forever. If you get the good roles, it's great - if you have the freedom to choose your projects and not just do anything and everything.

I never think about the next movie. I always think about the situation I'm in now, but you do think about an arc someone can go. I love Johnny Depp, I love 'Pirates of the Caribbean,' but I never wanted to play the same character over and over again.

When I started in movies, they said I'd be this big star, but I was only a moderate one. Not enough good pictures. It's important to be in a good piece of work no matter the size of one's own part.

It's one thing in this business to actually work. 5 percent of the Screen Actors' Guild works. It's another thing to do work that's satisfying and that people are loving.

I feel that I have grown so much as an actor being on 'Homeland.'

I want people to look at my films and say 'Wow, she's a good actress', and I know I'll have to work hard for that.

If you want to play the good roles, spend more time in in college and in acting class than you do in the gym, and you'll have the career you want.

I'd like to be doing quality acting in a quality role and making as many people as possible happy.

I can't complain about my career, that's for sure.