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Male actors have to lie about their ages, too.
I think male actors get confused by their own vanity.
I think the female actors are far more intelligent than the male actors.
A lot of male actors are method actors and they become the characters which they both were.
TV does not have anything meaty to offer the male actors. It is a female-dominated industry.
In 'Karna' I've to do the kind of action only male actors have been seen doing in the movies.
I've worked opposite so many male actors whose egos have been so delicate that it was just so hard to do the work.
There is a class system in acting just like in anything else. Black females fall in a category below black male actors.
I resent having witnessed the survival of some very mediocre male actors and the professional demise of the very brilliant female ones.
Female actors' contribution to films are at par with male actors. So just because they signed the film, they can't be taken for granted.
We have so many male superstars, but there are just a few female actors who have attained that status. It is not only because of the industry; it's in the society.
Just like how male actors get to play varied characters, I would also like to play characters that people don't normally see female characters portraying on screen.
I want to aspire to something like what Denzel Washington does, which is try to find scripts written for white actors - or Jodie Foster, who reads scripts for male actors.
Look at films like 'Raazi,' 'Manikarnika: The Queen of Jhansi' and 'Padmaavat'... women in our film industry have changed the whole scenario. They are no less than our male actors.
I haven't had a lot of experience with glamour. I've never had to mask myself, as many now not-so-young actresses have had to do. Female actors in that regard have a different lot in life than male actors.
I don't really understand why we are paid less than the male actors, because we put equal efforts, and recent past has shown that actresses can deliver a hit film. We deserve better pay, equal to what actors get.
Male actors get into production, share profit, and they don't take money at times but are involved in some capacity which is economical and resourceful. These things suit them; as they have made a place for themselves, they have command over the box office.
I always hated when the studios just kind of said that anybody can act. You look at people like Spencer Tracy, Henry Fonda - and I'm just talking about the male actors - there aren't a lot who can act. It's a very special talent, and I wish it were recognized as a very special talent.
Initially, women only had to portray married wife roles on TV, but now there are show that are offering other roles to portray for women. Earlier, all drama used to revolve only around married women, which is not the case now. Even the male actors have a good opportunity for better roles now.
If I'm going to be honest about it, I think men get to do this sort of thing all the time. You look at countless performances by great male actors who get to play the whole gamut of human emotions. Women aren't regularly allowed to do that, and I don't know why people are so frightened by it.
I love working with male actors, and I think there's a tendency to write really interesting characters that would work solely alongside men where they would be in a man's world and have to deal with that, and it creates a lot of interesting storylines. For me, it's kind of circumstantial, but I definitely enjoy it.
The contentious issue of pay parity between male and female actors is easily resolvable if a number of big actresses decide to put their foot down. But we have to also consider the factors of time and labour. If a female actor has shot only for 40 days and the male actor for 200 days, she cannot expect to be paid the same amount.