Quotes About Role

I took parts that either I was offered or felt I could do a good job with.

I pick up what is offered to me. And if somebody is not offering me the right role and right film then I am not going to choose.

I loved the idea of playing this naughty old bag, offering her own explanation. It's my idea of heaven.

I was excited to play a bald guy in 'Ujda Chaman' because I had seen the Kannada film 'Ondu Motteya Kathe.' I loved it, and I felt inspired. It was the kind of movie that I wanted to do. I thought this film was offering me a very different role and an opportunity to perform.

Every time I choose a role, I see whether it excites me and offers me the potential to challenge myself.

Enacting the role of an investigative officer was like living my childhood dream!

I don't really think of myself as a businessman at all. That's why I have the 'chief creative officer' role.

The Woman' came off the back of a film called 'Offspring' in which I played the same character.

I remember calling directors numerous times and saying, 'Oh, you should cast so-and-so instead of me. They're much better for the role.'

I don't know what my next dream role gig is, but I have so, so many shows that I'm like, 'Oh my God, can I guest star on 'New Girl?' Like, that would be amazing!'

If you can figure out where you fit into any particular story, you'll be okay. When you're not quite sure where you fit in, you try to be too many parts of the story. You gild the lily. I see it all the time.

My older kids are fantastic people. It can't be the result of my influence on them.

I am not an actress. I can only play me - on and off the screen.

If one day I have a daughter and my daughter wants to be a model, I would never let her!

Don't get me started on Americans and war. One of the things I learnt over in Italy is how they mythologised the war so that it's all good old gung-ho guys from Omaha and ignored everyone else's role.

One of the things I find about acting is that the less the audience knows about the actor, the more they're able to believe in him in the role.

One of my dad's friends from the music industry came over to our house one time and heard me sing, and he said, 'She should audition for this role I have!' So I did! It was a movie called 'The Gospel,' which I did when I was five. That was when I was like, 'I want to do this acting thing!'

At one time, especially during the era of action heroes, women took a bit of a secondary role because heroes were doing most of the action.

As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.

There's always the ongoing actor frustration of finding the great role to do next. I don't go to work a lot. I wait as long as I can until the money runs out or a great part comes along.

The only time I've played a real baddy was when I was Regan in 'King Lear.'

I would never blame an actor for taking on a role. The only time that I think I have to question why someone's doing something is when they're either mocking or trivializing the events that occurred or making it more sensational than it was.

Often our onscreen personas are different from who we are. Actors like Kamal Haasan, who is such a genius, has never played a role close to what he is in real life.

I look like a kid onscreen in most movies.