Quotes About Role

I was hired to be the head football coach, not the general manager.

I research the role, and if it's a literary character, I read the book, and if it's an historical figure, I research documents and biographies. If it's a fictional character, I work off the script.

It is very satisfying for an actor to be able to play a historical personage.

I'm not a cleanup hitter. I'm just batting fourth.

So, my role on an NBA basketball team was the defensive stopper, was to be the most physical player on the team. I love that role. I love contact. I love hitting.

I've done a couple of castings... I've done an audition for 'The Hobbit.'

If 'The Hobbit' happens - and there's reason to believe that it will - then I think I'm in with a chance! Gollum is very much part of 'The Hobbit,' after all.

When I got my role on 'Seinfeld,' the show was already huge. I was so nervous on my first day. I remember meeting everyone and holding my script and just shaking.

Just acting on someone else's set feels like a holiday, almost.

I was told by many well-wishers not to do the film because my role was just a cameo. But it's very important to be part of big, successful films like 'Holiday.'

As the captain, I was going to be having the dominant role in most of the episodes, and that was appealing. I wasn't interested in coming to Hollywood to sit around.

I played a really good guy for two years on 'Homeland,' and I was champing at the bit to play a bad guy.

As an actor, whether I'm playing Othello on stage or David Estes on 'Homeland,' that ability to give into your imagination is something that I enjoy.

In 'Aarathu Sinam', I play a wife and mother. It's a very homely character, quite contrary to what I've done so far.

I'm the homemaker, and that's fine with me because I really like that.

I am an actor and I do not have to relate to whatever I play on screen them at a personal level. What is important is to understand the character, do enough homework to know the frame of mind of the character or his back story.

Just give me a good role that allows me to hone my craft, and I am a pretty happy camper.

I'm ready to get a Marvel role, honey.

Cinderella is making her Broadway debut. It's an honor to step into that position and, in that way, I am creating a role because it's never been done on Broadway. I feel so honored.

'Return To Nim's Island', I was so honored to be asked to play the role of Nim because I loved the original film, the 2008 film 'Nim's Island.'

It's an honour to play a woman cricketer on screen.

It's every boy's dream to play Captain Hook.

Hopefully, any character I play has an anchor in reality.

I just want to continue to grow, as an actor, and dig. Hopefully, one day, I'll lose myself in a role. My only worry about that is that I just want to be able to come back home. I don't want to get lost forever. That scares me.