Quotes About Roles

I have been lucky makers have allowed me to experiment with my roles.

It would be difficult to break away from a set image, but as an actor, one would love to experiment with roles.

I think I did experimental roles too early in my career.

But I'm attracted to roles where I get to really go in and explore a character.

There is no need to change my image. I like my image, and the audience likes it, too. I am very comfortable with the kind of roles I do, and as I am not doing the same character or playing myself. I explore my characters; I don't brood over my broody image.

I have been doing action roles for a while and really wanted to explore the other side of my personality on screen.

It hasn't been easy for me to get roles in movies after so much exposure on television. There's an anathema about TV, and breaking away from it is difficult for almost everybody.

I've played all these extreme guys, but playing an everyman type has its own challenges.

As an actor, it is great to experiment with roles of varying shades and I have been part of some fabulous films.

I have got one of those faces that change every day: you can dress me up, make me look vampy and then make me look 12 years old. But don't all women do this thing? We all take on these roles.

Different roles call for different aspects or different faces of Sterling to emerge.

At any period of an actor's life, it's fairly likely that they'll be cast in ways that are reminiscent. That's the way it goes.

Teams do not make their debut in the first XI - individuals do - but it is the team that enables the individual to get the best out of himself. Football IQ, I call it, understanding roles and the team structure.

People miss those who they love. It brings tears to my eyes to see the longing for me. But it's my decision to do fewer films and more protagonist-based roles. For me to take up something, it has to make a lot of sense to me.

Despite the fact Hollywood classes me as a 'type,' I find the roles broad enough to handle all the acting technique I can summon together.

Today's films are so technological that an actor becomes starved for roles that deal with human relationships.

With the advanced editing technologies, it's not difficult to play double roles these days. It can be done easily.

I'm much better at things if I believe in them, and a lot of those little teenage starlet roles, they have problems, too, and a lot of movies just ignore that.

As a female actress - I've been doing this since I was a teenager - I often got approached with the ingenue roles: naive and wide-eyed and childlike.

Now, all the movies are for teenagers. It's very difficult for an actress to find really deep, beautiful characters to play.

I've played all kinds of TV roles, from cowboys to fathers of teenagers. It's helped me a lot. Of course, I was very lucky to have had good directors.

Le Petit is where I cut my teeth with some of my early roles. In 1982, I was in the chorus of 'Gypsy' and soon after I had my first lead as Jamie Lockhart in 'The Robber Bridegroom.'

There are some fantastic roles for women and women of a certain age on television, whether it's 'Medium' or 'The Closer' or 'Damages' or 'Saving Grace.'

I get better roles in television. I'm not going to do a lesser role just to be in a feature film.