Roles Quotes

I look to challenge myself with a character that's not like myself or anything I've done before, but I certainly don't reject roles based on how often I've done them.

That's one of the things we're most excited about, really, is just allowing this great, Oscar-nominated actor, giving him material to play in one of his signature roles.

What helps you as an actor when it comes to roles is that deeper understanding of so many different fractions of humanity. Because oftentimes, even in comedy, there is conflict.

Actors don’t retire. They just get offered fewer roles.

When I am playing a role far away from me with an accent that is not mine I always employ a dialect coach. I am almost always playing someone that has an accent that is not mine.

You're always looking for roles and other creatives who are going to be challenging to you, because you're always a better actor after the experience.

The first audition my manger sent me on was 'The Hunger Games,' and I got the role.

I never had trouble getting an agent. I went out and got my first couple roles, and literally within six months I never had to have another job other than acting.

My role is to coach, encourage, inspire, motivate, and help people.

I was lucky enough to have a plethora of types of roles before and during the horror movie part of my career.

The essence of my work, and of me, is the softer side of a strong woman, and that goes into a number of different roles.

EVOLUTIONARIES is going to help create a worldview that will influence our vision ofthe future ... and also our role in consciously participating in it.

I'm very proud of my roles. I enjoy the ability to touch millions ofpeople and, in some way, connect with them in ways that I cannotconnect with them in my normal, everyday life.

In a way, I feel that film roles haven't given me the opportunity to show I have a sense of humor.

Parents are flawed human beings who are given a role that more approximates that of God than of mere mortals.

I avoid roles that might send me down a road where I might end up being typecast.

I want what's mine. I see other actors who are doing very interesting roles, and I just want to continue to do things that are interesting, and things that people will go see in theaters.

My roles are in some way like children to me. You don't ever really want to scrape one off your shoe.

I'm concerned about the role the court will play in protecting individual rights in this and the next century.

Well, I suppose that, in a sense, every screen role is a favourite with me

I need something different [roles], always something just slightly different, that pushes you and challenges you.

Sometimes the roles you're being offered, leads in films aren't good enough. Actually it's you're better going and doing a radio play or a decent TV.

So often when Black men have to play roles on TV, we're either the noble savage or we're completely a savage, and there's no nuance.

We're always trailing, as far as the amount of roles that are written for us and the films that are being made that have black characters in them. I don't know if that's going to change.

I've been doing this since I was 10 years old, inhabiting different people and playing different roles.

I am not particularly distressed by the state of fiction or the role of the writer. The more marginal, perhaps ultimately the more trenchant and observant and finally necessary he'll become.

I happen to be one who believes very strongly that state and local governments have their proper roles.

It's a blessing to be given a variety of roles to what I call an iconic action actor like myself.

Who should play the lead role in a film about me? Dunno. Danny De Vito? Jeff Goldblum? Meryl Streep? Someone of that kind.

But as far as the concept of HAL, who HAL was, his character - I had no role in creating him.

Any acting roles will be few and far between until my kids are older and by then, who knows what I'll want to do?

It's just like being a father; you got to show them love and you got to show them the path. I don't like this role-model stuff, though.

I've been blessed to have done different roles, but I don't think people see me as funny.

I discovered, though, that once having given a pig an enema there is no turning back, no chance of resuming one of life's more stereotyped roles.

If I look at the people that I look up to, a lot of them don't come to the forefront until their early to mid-30s. I think the most exciting roles are definitely yet to come.

I am very, very competitive and ambitious. I would definitely fight hard for a role I believed in.

I never thought about that ever throughout the entire course of my career about choosing a specific role because it would make me seem more man-like.

You couldn't even write me a paper about the roles you would dream of playing in modern musical theatre.

I never go to a gym unless I have to for a role, a contract. I try to take care of myself as a human being, not because I have to be in front of the camera.

I knew how to act and had studied acting and enjoyed it, but I'd never pushed myself to really perform as an actor, and create a role, and have the whole character's backstory.

I really know right from wrong and apply that to my life. At home, I was the oldest of three. My role was to be the responsible one.

Islam doesn't have a monopoly on violence in Africa. And violence plays a particularly critical role in places where statehood is weak at best, such as the Maghreb.

I had to work out where I was going, what type of films I wanted to make. For that reason, I decided to choose independent productions, less important roles, and I tried theater, too.

I definitely try my best not to stay in character when I'm not on set, which can be more difficult in some roles than others.

If I am to truly become an autonomous woman, then I must take over that role of being my own guardian.

I wish I had a little more ambition. But then what would I do? Turn down more roles with more vehemence? Me no likey worky.

I just want to keep being creative, and I want to feel inspired by a role, and I want to keep acting.

I love character roles. I'm happier in them. I look for roles that have some kind of complexity.

I've actually got turned down for a lot of roles because I'm not bubbly enough. People have told me to be more 'up', but I can't, really. I find it hard to be smiley and giggly all the time.

I did have role models, but most of them were male.