Pankaj Tripathi Quotes

The only thing that we as actors really can control is to be able to say 'yes' or 'no' to the material.

Actors are at the mercy of roles that are offered.

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

I've never consciously chased a particular kind of a film or role. I choose from what is offered.

You pick projects for the part, the director, and the script. I just want to do different, interesting stuff.

I'm a working actor so I never really pick a film because of a genre, and I don't really turn them down because of genre. Anything that's unlike the picture I just finished is always more interesting.

I'm an actor who wants to do great parts, and I've been very fortunate, for a long time, to get meaty roles, and sometimes some of them are meatier than others.

My first five or six years in L.A., I was just trying to get two cents together to stay here. Playing Jason Stackhouse on 'True Blood' put me in a position, financially, to make decisions based on creativity, to choose roles based on whether I connected with them. I love the Jason Stackhouse character... But I also love stepping out of his shoes.

Everything that I am going to do as an actress doesn't matter where it's coming from. It just has to be interesting.

For an actor, it's important to choose the right kind of project.

I would love to act in films if people think I am right for a particular role.

I don't make a conscious effort to choose any particular genre. If I like the script, I go ahead with the project.

I have never thought of which kind of movie will give me the big break. I have always been more cautious of the roles that I have played.

I am not someone who will pick just any role in order to work. I want to attempt different characters.

I'm getting good offers, as good as ever sometimes. I just finished a thing with Billy Bob Thornton that was the most unique part I've ever played in my life, in the most unique project.

As an actor, whatever I get the opportunity to do, if it has a good story then I'm in. I thought 'Dead End' had a great story; 'Nightmare on Elm Street,' of course, was probably the first real horror film I was in.

I'm an actor. My life as an actor depends on who sends me what. I'm just taking the best stuff that I can find that's sent my way, regardless of how big or little the paycheck is.

What I believe will make my acting career successful going forward is hard work. I like to challenge myself. Then it's the people I meet and choosing the projects I want to work on correctly. There's a lot of characters I can play.

As an actor, you don't have control over what you do, whom you work with.

In the beginning, I would find a character I understood. That was my focus. Not now - but you basically get offered the exact same thing you just did. Which I find hilarious. I did 'The Vow,' and then I had every love story you can imagine thrown at me. And now I'm getting offers for comedies.

As for doing more dramatic work over comedy, I do whatever turns me on at the moment.

The thing about 'On the Doll,' I was doing 'Nip/Tuck' at the time, and I was doing only 5 or 6 scenes an episode. So I had some free time, and I wanted to do something completely different than what I've ever done before.

It's never a script that makes me decide to accept a film or not.

I have been reading scripts, going to auditions and looking for the right opportunities.

My passion lies in amazing, complex characters and really well-written stuff - not to say I wouldn't want to do a comedy if the right comedy came along... I'm an actor in Los Angeles, and I have a family I have to support.