I've played quite a few good guys.
I think I would love to do a role where I completely transform myself and look completely different, act completely different, and do some crazy, cool, action drama where I was undercover and saving the world.
The truth is, hero of '2.0' is not Rajinikanth but Akshay Kumar. If I was given a choice, I would have taken that character. Hats off to Akshay. He has worked so hard.
My father Arun Ahuja was an actor, and he did films as a hero.
As a kid, I used to sing, dance, I was into dramatics. I would love to pursue being an actor, but not as such as a hero.
I just love playing good guys.
It was great to be able to play a hero in 'The Magnificent Seven' in a film industry where Asian actors are often limited to playing a villain.
Duke Wayne played a mean guy but never an anti-hero.
I'm hardly physically right for the hero parts, now am I?
A film like 'Aashiqui 2' needed to happen for people to see me in the capacity of a hero. I am getting a lot of opportunities, as people have recognised the potential in me.
Working on a movie like 'Prince of Persia' was awesome. It was great fun to be an action hero and to jump around, running off walls and fighting and having great quippy lines.
There is no 'Top Gun 2' in which Maverick is not the starring role.
It's always been a dream for me to play a comic book character.
When I've been asked in the past about my dream role, I always expressed how much I'd like to be a superhero.
My dream role would be to play a Korean hero in a Hollywood superhero movie.
When you're a young man, a young boy, all you want to be is that action hero; you want to be the James Bond, and I got to do that for a bit, and that was great.
This was basically the first time I got to act in action scenes, with things blowing up all around me. It sounds corny, but I think every actor would like to - at least once in his or her career - play the person who saves the entire world.
I was comfortable in my thirties playing the romantic partner, the hero that saves the day, or the woman who is facing a world that revolves around younger kid actors.
As silly as it sounds, I want to do some sort of superhero type of role. That's always been something I'm interested in.
Playing a superhero was an acting challenge for me. It was fun.
On 'CSI: NY,' the audience knew I was a really good guy, and I caught the bad guy.
It's great to play the hero. You get all the good stuff. You're in it all the way through.
A lot of actors would tell you that they'd rather play the villain than the hero. When you're the character, there are no repercussions. So there is a kind of liberating feeling about saying certain things to certain people - and I think that it's always quite satisfying to do that.
It's a dream role for me to play a superhero.
Comedy always came easier for me. But I would have loved to have been an action hero.
