Film Character Quotes

Loving movies myself, I know when I see a film with someone with a strong persona, it's hard to overlay another character on top of that.

I am playing the character of Sanjana in 'Race 3' and it is very a dark character in the initial phase of the film but towards the end, it gets transformed into a positive character.

I'd like to own a movie camera - a proper one, with film, not a digital thing. Celluloid has more character.

When I say 'yes' to a movie it's usually because, to a greater or lesser extent, it's because I'm enthusiastic about the character. How well that character ultimately comes off depends on a lot of things: your relationship with the director and so on. But at first, you're on board because you think you can do something with it.

When I was filming, I imagined that Legolas was a meditative character who was very thoughtful and had a certain amount of depth to him. I started working on trying to find this focus that Legolas has, which wasn't really like me.

Derek, my character, in 'Chhichhore' is actually based on the director's real life senior in engineering college and I had no clue about it till he took me to Indian Institute of Technology Bombay.

I play a womaniser in 'Saala Khadoos,' but I do not demean women in any way.

Singh Is Bling' is a fun, entertaining film. I play a mad, geeky character called Imli. She has no sense of style. I am nothing like her in real life.

My look is very different in 'Main Hoon Na.' I don't look like the same Suniel Shetty.

You could easily play the guy as straight-up hood throughout the whole movie, the Imperial Courts, but writer and director Malik Vitthal envisioned a human being that has never been seen before in film: a black man in circumstances that he does not like, who is passionate - persistent - in turning it around.

A cinema villain essentially needs a moustache so he can twiddle with it gleefully as he cooks up his next nasty plan.

My character in 'Shame' is an outrageous person. Loud and uncompromising and I begged Steve McQueen to give me the job.

I remember reading an interview that Anthony Hopkins had given about how he developed Hannibal Lecter. He said he just looked in the mirror and, I forget exactly what it was, but he looked in the mirror and realized that when he smiled, it looked creepy.

My character in 'Casa de mi Padre' is an ambitious woman. I had never played that kind of character before.

In 'Kalank,' I am playing a character, which is quite strong, quiet a little complex yet interesting, that drew me towards the character when I heard the narration from director Abhishek Varman.

It's been a teenage fantasy of mine to play Bodhi.

I do films in which I have an important character.

For the 'Riddick' character, I try to get as ruthless as possible, and I want to be a machine.

It's nice to create a character, not just within two scenes, but within the journey of a whole movie. It's fun to do that.

I'm a firm believer, and some people may disagree, and I'm happy to have a beer with them and talk about it, but I believe that locations are such an integral character to the movie.

My character Preet in 'Fanaah' had a very distinctive appearance: loud make-up and dramatic clothes.

Events are the best opportunities to experiment with clothes, as we have to stick to a character in films.

I questioned everything. I didn't see a character developed in Platoon at all. The character in Blue Velvet was much more fascinating to me.

Most films are written and made with a hero around 35, or even 25.

Sameera, my character in 'Take Off,' was extremely intense.