A Quote by Conrad Veidt
I was never a villain on the stage. I always played strong, sympathetic types. My first stage role with a speaking part, believe it or not, was as a priest. It wasn't until I began acting in films that the producers and directors saw me primarily as a bizarre villain.
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To be completely honest, it's shocking to me that I keep getting the villain roles! I do not see myself as the villain and I know, growing up, I was the opposite of a villain. I would never try to be a villain to anyone - but maybe other people I grew up with feel differently about that.
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I was played the villain so much because I was bigger and stronger than most, and they cast me as the villain everywhere I went.
It seemed fun to play a villain on stage and I wanted my jokes to be so good that I could just calmly tell them on stage.
I am a product of the Film and Television Institute of India, so I never categorised my roles, but yes I was typecast by the producers and the directors as a villain.
Ive always wanted to play the villain. But the young girl is never the villain.
I've always wanted to play the villain. But the young girl is never the villain.
You've got to love the villain if you have to play him. You've got to find something that you can live with in yourself if you're going to play the villain in a play on stage.
This I realized very late, that villain remains villain and are never able to become artists. We are never counted as actors and always addressed as villains.
In the early days, some producers and directors saw me in the musical 'Evita' and cast me in their movies. They heard me singing on stage also, but they couldn't translate that into a Hindi movie song.
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