I remember I was like five or six years old; I played the devil. That was my first role.
I don't know what the future holds. I just try to do roles that I haven't done before.
I like roles that people don't recognize me in.
I want to be someone capable of seeing the unseen faces, of seeing those who do not seek fame or glory, who silently fulfil the role life has given them. I want to be able to do this because the most important things, those that shape our existence, are precisely the ones that never show their faces.
The characters I have the least in common with are the ones I have the greatest success with. The further a role is from my own experience, the more I try to deepen it.
I'm a great believer in luck and the extraordinary role that plays in all of our lives.
I'm not intimidated by lead roles. I'm better in them. I don't feel pressure. I feel released at times like that. That's what I'm born to do.
I feel nowadays that both women and men are embracing their individuality rather than being defined by gender roles.
The growing role that the government has played in financing and administering schooling has led not only the enormous waste of taxpayers money but also to a far poorer educational system.
If I only get to play Malaysian roles, there wouldn't be very many roles for me to play.
The Alessi relationship and the Target one has broadened the role of architects in society and broadened the concept that design belongs to everyone.
The role of an orchestra in the 21st century isn't just playing, it's about developing future audiences and performers.
I'm not saying I'm the perfect role model. But I'm honest. Period.
Every role that you don't get burns you for a while.
Because modeling is lucrative, I'm able to save up and be more particular about the acting roles I take.
Passive fatalism can never be the role of a revolutionary party, like the Social Democracy.
I only know how to play one role: me.
Our role as humans is to recognize the complexity of others.
My role is the shepherd's role. The shepherd is the one who opens the gate and allows the flock to go through and whoever opens the gate has to close it, and the gate is not yet closed.
Being able to do lead roles in pictures or onstage or whatever it is that you're doing in acting is obviously what you strive for because you want to better yourself as an actor and you want to better yourself as a person as well. But that does come with a lot of responsibility and a great deal of weight.
The role of the storyteller is to awaken the storyteller in others.
Whenever you're in any acting role you are mortgaging your own character.
You can tell when someone is putting on a role. If someone really believes in what theyre saying, its quite hard to find cracks.
There is no one else who can ever fill your role in the same way, so it's a good idea to perform it as well as possible.
Under neoliberalism, culture appears to have largely abandoned its role as a site of critique.
