Roles Quotes

• From my side, I don't put pressure on the director to cater to a certain image. I am happy to do different films, and I have to stick by my director. I like to completely surrender myself to the director - that way, I think, I don't get to do the similar roles.

  

  Suriya
  • Roles
  • Director
  • Surrender

• I have no acting technique I act instinctively. That's why I can't play any role that isn't based on something in my life.

  

  Ethel Waters
  • Play
  • Acting
  • Technique

• I no longer take on everything offered. Instead, I go up for roles I like, things that I would enjoy watching, stories that I want to tell.

  

  Nicholas Gonzalez
  • Want
  • Enjoy
  • Roles

• Well, I don't think a specific role can destroy your voice. What can destroy your voice is when you... make an error. Everybody can make an error. But then you need to realize what is your way.

  

  Cecilia Bartoli
  • Needs
  • Voice
  • Realizing

• Only while they are conforming their actions to the model of some archetypal hero do the Arunta feel that they are truly alive, for in those roles they are immortal. The occasions on which they slip from such molds are quite meaningless, for time immediately devours those occasions and reduces them to nothingness.

  

  Huston Smith
  • Alive
  • Actions
  • Occasions

• It's very, very rare to find five roles in one piece where we'd all jump at the chance to play any of them.

  

  Nicole Kidman
  • Chance
  • Jump
  • Piece

• I don't think guys inherently don't want to clean. I think the roles are most definitely changing, but I think in a good relationship, it's never been defined as 'a lady does this and a guy does this.' I think, in most working, healthy relationships, everybody does a little bit of everything.

  

  Eric Stonestreet
  • Relationship
  • Changing
  • Clean

• I have led the way for moving women from traditional roles to strategic positions and inspired girls and women throughout Africa to seek leadership positions.

  

  Dalia Grybauskaite
  • Girl
  • Moving
  • Inspired

• One of the reasons why I fought for my roles is that I think there are so many things about them that are just human, but people like to label them as weird or bad or wrong because they're scared of them. I don't consider them bad - they're girls. They're going to make mistakes, but the films show the repercussions and show that they're going to learn. A lot of people are made to feel bad for being sad, so on top of already being unhappy, you're gonna hate yourself for it.

  

  Evan Rachel Wood
  • Learn
  • Mistakes
  • Scared

• I like the way that different people recognise me for the roles I done

  

  Casper Van Dien
  • People
  • Different
  • Way

• I play a huge variety of roles

  

  Casper Van Dien
  • Play
  • Variety
  • Huge

• I started here in Australia, playing a lot of roles but never the lead guy in shows here. I always tended to play the rougher guy, the criminal who gets caught or shot by the cops. Or the boyfriend from the wrong side of the tracks.

  

  Sullivan Stapleton
  • Guy
  • Play
  • Caught

• I try to do as many of my own stunts as possible. If you keep on taking yourself out of the role you play, you lose the thread of the character.

  

  Willem Dafoe
  • Trying
  • Character
  • Play

• I think Chris Evans has got Captain America locked up. The role is in good hands.

  

  Michael B. Jordan
  • Hands
  • Roles

• I hated being typecast in those roles. It was personally limiting, only playing stereotyped heavies. But I got those roles because I was angry, because that's what I projected. I was angry at my mother and father because they didn't get along, angry at the church. On top of that, I had an extreme lack of self-confidence.

  

  Harry Dean Stanton
  • Church
  • Self-confidence
  • Typecast

• No, I like being a role model because I know how much comfort my musical idols brought me.

  

  Shirley Ann Manson Angelfish
  • Comfort
  • Musical
  • Models

• I do try to look at scripts and keep an eye out for challenging roles.

  

  Raashi Khanna
  • Roles
  • Scripts
  • Challenging

• I'm very thankful I'm finding my way, and people are excited to bring me into roles that demand a certain complexity.

  

  Nicholas D'Agosto
  • Way
  • Roles
  • Complexity

• I would love to play Simon Cowell in a movie - heck, I would love it. It would be my dream role.

  

  Will Ferrell
  • Dream
  • Play
  • Roles

• It's funny because when I first met with Carmen, she said, "Have you ever thought about doing TV?" And I was like, "No, not really, but I'd audition for TV." And she said, "That's where the roles are for women now. That's where you can go and get a really great part."

  

  Eve Hewson
  • Funny
  • Roles
  • Audition

• I don't want to limit myself. I want to keep doing all sorts of roles. I guess what lies behind this urge is the conviction that movies have changed my life. And certain performances have inspired me to try to be someone different.

  

  Rinko Kikuchi
  • Different
  • Certain
  • Someone

• If you don't question the officials' role then you've got to ask what they are doing

  

  Arsene Wenger
  • Roles
  • Asks
  • Officials

• I don't necessarily wait for that massive leading role. I want to keep the juices flowing.

  

  Miranda Richardson
  • Want
  • Waiting
  • Juice

• Each role has its own different challenges.

  

  Viola Davis
  • Different
  • Challenges
  • Roles

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