Roles Quotes

There just arent that many Jesus roles around.

So when you make an impression in a certain kind of role, that tends to be the type of role that you get offered.

All actors are looking for that role that's going to define who they are. When it happens, it's a good thing.

It's the American leadership that has not played the role it should be playing and that leaders in other countries have been playing.

Some musicians play blues, others classical jazz or bluegrass. I like to play political roles because I can merge my political interests with my creative interests.

I know acting is not impersonating, but I'm good with impressions. I can do impressions of people I know, and people I've been, and roles that I've acted before.

Tilda Swinton is a great example of a person who completely disappears into a role.

I studied theater in college, and I really wanted to be an actress and play a lot of different roles. Then I made landing on a television comedy my main focus.

I'm not a role model or the poster child for how to do anything.

My role models are Bettie Page and Mia Kirshner. Every day when Mia comes to work she raises the bar for us all.

I need to make sure that I'm taking roles that I feel like I can communicate through.

I read a script and I know immediately whether that role is for me or not.

I've made my mind up that I will only do a film that I really, really love. I'm determined to lie low until a role comes along that really makes me want to work.

I couldn't really experience being an author when I was still working in publishing - I was trying to negotiate being both. Sometimes the knowledge doesn't translate between the two roles.

When I find a role I want to play, I just go after it.

I've always done roles that really appealed to me on a gut level and which I found inspiring.

There's always male roles I want to play. I'm so annoyed when I watch movies and go, "That could have been played by a woman."

I know certain roles are important to me. I know that I really want to play them. I know I can do a good job. But I can never put into words why.

When you're asking about roles for men and women, men certainly have a longer shelf life. Men can play the sexy lead for 20 years longer than we can.

As an actor, I've always been interested in making sure I can perform the role and the lines in the way the writer intended.

Right now music is more my outlet than acting, but I'm waiting for that one satisfying role.

As an actor, you ask yourself what you can do to put yourself in a position where you can play that role.

I'm blessed to have cool roles in these big movies.

I'm attracted to those kinds of roles that could be good or could be bad, and you just don't know.

I have no specific ideas in mind of what I will or won't do; it's all about the roles.

I play a crazy talk-show host, but that's not me. It's like an actor playing a role.

When you take on a role you try to do as much as possible beforehand to get your mind into it. Just to prepare because it's a daunting prospect to go six months or whatever.

You can tell when you watch a movie, usually, what the actors' experience was on the movie, because even the smallest of roles were interesting.

If you look at the movies that come out, most of them are bad, so it's not as if achieving some level of success means you get offered better roles, because frankly they don't seem to exist.

It's a really unique acting opportunity to play two roles who are not only interacting with each other, but vastly different.

I take my role seriously as a pastor.

With any character, the main objective is to bring authenticity to the role.

I'm in the gym pretty much every day. I've been very strict about my diet during shooting. It all helps me bring as much authenticity to the role as I can.

I wish I could speak Spanish, because it would be a lot easier to play more interesting roles.

I'm really into strong, female roles - but they don't have to necessarily be loud - I'm just as interested in introverts too.

I no longer think in terms of, Ooh, this is a great role and what is it going to do for - actually, I've never really thought about what something is going to do for my career.

TV can play a role in delivering that emotion as well as the obvious ability to reach a lot of people quickly with that message.

...But the problem is, people tend to assign you the role of the person you are at your worst, you know?

I don't even like playing a contentious role.

The role of architecture, in terms of communication, is not going to drastically change either.

My role is to set everything in motion.

I just try and do the best with every role I get to do. Hopefully the experience in itself is a good experience and people will want to work with me.

A lot of women get out of the business because it's so not family-friendly. And so women that could be in there making good women-roles don't do it, 'cause they're smart and get out.

Bo Derek turned down the role of Helen Keller because she couldn't remember the lines.

The writer creates the role on the page and then the actor takes it and makes it their own.

i know what it's like to wake up thinking you will be able to cast the people who play the starring roles in your life, only to realize that you have to watch it from the audience.

My father wasn't the best role model to me.

I turned down as many roles that I thought were beyond my abilities as I did ones I thought weren't good enough.

There's still a bit of a problem, in that so many leading English roles are taken by American or French actresses.

In everything I do, I find some of myself, or a lot of myself, and put it into the role.