Quotes About Roles

I choose roles that are not me.

I think a lot of actors take on fun roles and then they're lazy or flippant with them. I just can't do that.

As an actress I take roles I find interesting.

All the roles are for boys. The girls' roles are either small or all the same. There's just nothing interesting.

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.

My agent knows what I'm looking for. And I'm also looking for a new agent, too, so I'm putting it out there. Again, I'm not going to turn down every role, because there is no bad role, really. It's all what you bring to the role, but that traditional, 'Stand here and open a rope,' I'm not doing it.

I only started singing the Russian roles when I came west.

There's always going to be some guys not satisfied with the minutes or how they're playing or what their role is. That's normal.

A star is different, and an actor is different. But there is an actor in every star, and they, too, look for challenging roles to satisfy the actor in them.

I got an opportunity to play all kinds of women - that has been the satisfying aspect of my career.

Of course I am happy to play in any of the attacking roles, but for me, where I can score the most goals is down the middle.

Actors are always looking for actor-proof parts. A part so good you can't screw it up!

There are some great women's roles in television... so much more interesting than what I was reading in film scripts.

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

I am a known actor who wants to challenge himself in difficult roles. I am not a star but an actor, so I am always looking for strong scripts and strong roles.

I was drawn to gay parts because of their scripts, what the roles offered.

I never choose scripts on the basis of whether the girl is like me. I don't want to play myself... I live with myself, and it isn't fun!

I get a lot of scripts, but they're all for the same type of character.

I'm just trying to play against ethnicity. I got to play a guy from Louisiana in 'The Pacific' named Merriell Shelton, and now I'm playing Elliot Alderman.

There is hunger to have good experiences with people. There will be roles and all of that. But the package of experience has today become important for me. People should be good, established; the filmmaking and acting experience should become heartening.

But a writer's contribution is literary and a film is not literary. When you take that stuff off the page, and cast the people who are going to fit into those roles, that's what being a director is.

I don't want to be painted any one color and that can happen to you in Hollywood if you make a hit in a particular role.

I've been offered roles in Indian films, but I wanted my debut film to be from Pakistan. A lot of people think that I've made my music career from India, but that's not true. I made it big in Pakistan, and then I went across the border.

I can't worry about whether roles will be there for me when I'm older. They're there now, and I'm just not going to panic.