Quotes About Role

In Malayalam, I can improvise, and acting is easy because I think in Malayalam, but for 'Velaikkaran,' I had to prepare for a role, which is a first for me.

For me and for I'm sure any actor, each role is a different challenge to prepare for in a different way.

All the things you can do to prepare for a role that free you, in the moment, are great. You have this muscle memory for things. You don't have to act it as much, once you've done it enough.

If I prepare myself for a character, for a role, I always try to understand her.

You have a new role: family caregiver. It's a role nobody applies for. You don't expect it. You won't be prepared. You probably won't even identify yourself as a caregiver.

I didn't know how to go about preparing for the part of someone who can't remember who he is. The frustration angle is written in, but there's also this incredible passive state.

When you're preparing for a game, you prepare like you're starting. But if you're not, if you're coming off the bench, everybody has a role.

I am preparing myself as every offseason, getting myself ready to close. Starting hasn't even crossed my mind and I'm not going to do it either.

I haven't wanted to portray a manager since Paul E. Dangerously was with the Samoan Swat Team in 1989. I've always wanted to do some different presentation in that role. I don't consider myself a manager - I'm an advocate, and I truly believe that that is the description for the role that I play.

I read a script that's presented to me, and if I love the story and the role, I audition for the part, which is pretty much how I approach it.

I think, as a woman in action in the business, you would be stupid not to express interest. Any female action role that presents itself as an opportunity I would throw myself at!

In big science, the role of the individual scientist must be carefully preserved. So is the one of original ideas and of contributions.

The president can't change the country on his own. But what can he do? He can give an example.

I've been offered the role of Franklin Roosevelt, and I wouldn't presume to undertake it.

It's not going to be my political raison d'etre, I think it would be presumptuous to take a leadership role. But I would want to make sure that we support equality.

I don't know what else I could do but pretend to be an actor.

Nobody should expect an actor to have these wonderful ideas and concepts about the world: they pretend to be other people for a living.

We actors do this to pretend, to go into imaginary circumstances, so when the imaginary circumstance is of a different time, that just compounds the joy of doing what we do.

A period piece is a great opportunity for an actress. I love acting because I love to pretend, and when you're doing a period piece, then even the time you're in is pretend, so there's that much more to play with.

I never thought I could pretend to be someone else.

Being is like pretending.

I'm a performer. I'm pretending to be someone else. I'm not putting my own self into the show every night.

Farooque Sahab was so natural. It never seemed as if he was pretending to be a character that a scriptwriter or director had merely handed to him.

Acting isn't being who you are on screen. It's pretending that you're someone else.