Quotes About Youthful roles

I've been waiting to have facial hair on camera for the longest time - I'm always playing teenagers, and I always have to shave. I'll let you in on a little secret: I have sensitive skin, and I'm a sensitive guy, so shaving is something that I don't look forward to.

I would love to tackle an older role and have a little bit more depth, but I do get to have fun with the roles, and I'm quite happy playing young. I quite enjoy being the baby of the cast. It's fun.

Character roles definitely age better than your ingenues. You don't get to keep doing that.

I liked doing comedies, but as I got older I was better suited to do Westerns. Because I think it becomes unattractive for an older fellow trying to look young, falling in love with attractive girls in those kinds of situations.

Often when you're a teenage girl, you get sent characters that are so unenjoyable and unexciting.

I love playing an old witch or a young boy. When I was younger, I would always volunteer to play the male lead.

To be honest with you, most of the time the ingenue roles are a little bit dull and boring, in my opinion.

Any time you get a role that's a young person, that resembles what it's like to be a teenager, I always kind of jump at it.

Hollywood is enamored of the 20- to 30-year-old actress, but by the very nature of the life experience of the character, the roles cannot be that rich. You can only have Angelina Jolie in a mental hospital so many times.

I couldn't imagine playing someone young now; it would be so boring.

Youth cannot imagine romance apart from youth. That is why the roles of the heroes and heroines of plays are given by the managers to the most youthful actors they can find among the competent.

I really just don't think that teenagers and adults are maybe as different as people think, and so the best roles, to me, are treated like real people and not like these 'crazy kids we don't know what to do with.'

Ageism is interesting for me because I've been playing someone in my 40s since I was 20 or so, but I have experienced it. I've been lucky in that I haven't had to play the ingenue and feel that slip away.

I am constantly playing younger. I have a baby face. I'm only five-foot-one, so I am used to playing younger. I love it.

My young face keeps me in the running for youthful roles. If my face is going to look 22 then so should my body.

I am getting to that age where I am too old to play the boy next door and too young to play Uncle Fester.

My teacher at RADA said I was going to have trouble when I left because I wasn't an obvious juvenile lead, although I could do both comedy and drama. But I understood enough to know that my career was going to be a marathon, not a sprint.

I am happy being able to play roles with people my age because once you do something really mature there is no turning back.