Selective Casting Quotes

I have tried to make decisions to work with great directors, with good scripts, and that makes the pickings real slim.

I didn't want to be seen as just a guy on a list. I'm interested in good scripts, scripts that are about something, scripts that move your acting along.

I have been very selective in the South because I was always offered the biggest films. In Bollywood, things are different because multi-starrers are a norm. All big heroines are happy to be part of a big movie.

I turn a lot of stuff down - big, big movies, the kind I wouldn't want to go to the cinema to see.

I don't want to just do any acting role that comes just for the sake of getting in a film.

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

I'm not exactly the type of actress who does half a dozen films a year.

As an actor, I want to build a career as an actor. It's hard to even get a job sometimes, so as my career builds, I can be more picky than I used to be.

I've never taken a job as an actor that I wasn't 100-percent sure I wanted to do. I've never had to think about whether or not I wanted to do something, and there have always been a lot of factors to that. I don't think I'm an actor who's driven by character, to be honest.

Actresses are defined more by the roles they say 'no' to it than the roles they say 'yes' to it.

I wish I could sit back and say, 'Oh, I'm gonna wait for a Merchant-Ivory film to come my way. Or Ivory-Merchant. Whatever it's called. But you just take what's given and then, hopefully, down the road you can be more choosy and only do, say, Wayans brothers movies. That's my goal: to be more Merchant-Ivory-Wayans.