Quotes About Role

When you're playing a good character, you have an idea that you're playing the hero and the good guy. Actually, I think you're more stymied playing the good guy than you are the bad guy. As the bad guy, you have no inhibitions. Nothing stops you from doing what it is you feel you have to do. You do it because it's what's required.

In the group setting, I had a role to play, it was like being on a team. In a solo setting I'm forced to pull out all the stops.

I will continue to advocate for a strong federal government role to establish the production, storage and distribution networks needed to support a hydrogen economy.

I was offered Vicky Kaushal's role in 'Lust Stories,' which I had declined.

It was just a series of accidents that I became an actor. My first job was when a friend called and said he was putting together a song and dance group for the 'Gale Storm Show.' The role also involved a few lines. Then a man's wife, who had seen me in that, recommended me for a job she was doing.

The point of acting is to pretend you're someone else and sell a story.

You know that was much more of a kind of cameo, I love the movie, I love the story, I love Johnny as a fun little role but it was more of a cameo, not anywhere near as developed as this role.

Most of the time it's the role. Sometimes it's the story and sometimes it just the paycheck. It's the little movies that come out as stories or the fact that I have work to go out, you know what I'm saying, you can only be out so long without work, you start getting antsy.

To me, it doesn't really matter how big the part is as long as the part is important to the story.

I want to be a part of good stories. It's not about my role, but the overall story that counts.

I give preference to scripts and of course, the importance of my role in the storyline. Still I am not after hero roles. I take such roles only when I find the scripts exciting.

I have decided to dub on my own for my role in Vazhipokkan. It is an interesting storyline and hence I accepted the offer.

If I am convinced with the storyline and get an opportunity to play a powerful role, I would.

Moviemaking is just really neat, and I really like doing that. I'd like to get into it more, but in terms of my role in all of this and in terms of the gift that God has given me, I had to come to the conclusion that my strength is as a storyteller, creating the story.

As British people, we don't often face what our role in history is. We're only just beginning to do that. Storytellers have an incredibly important role in confronting that and continuing the conversation.

Casting is storytelling.

A woman's place in public is to sit beside her husband, be silent, and be sure her hat is on straight.

I think a lot of the instincts you have doing comedy are really the same for doing drama, in that it's essentially about listening. The way I approach comedy, is you have to commit to everything as if it's a dramatic role, meaning you play it straight.

It wasn't until 'Double Take' that I was in a movie as the leading man, in a character that was more straight and less broad than the other character, and where the story is really about him.

When everyone around you is doing all this incredible pirate acting and you're having to sort of play the straight guy and move the story forward, you kind of want to be doing some of that pirate ripping it up stuff, but in truth, to be a part of that project is what I love.

It was my first straight dramatic role, and the most adult, intelligent one I have ever played.

The straight man has the best part. He gets to be in the show and see it, too.

The brilliance of Adam Scott is that he is so damn funny in a straight man role.

People say: 'Why do you want to play the straight man?' Well, it's because he gets to be in every scene.