Character roles definitely age better than your ingenues. You don't get to keep doing that.
I've reprised roles in the theatre, which is somehow more accepted, and where one can automatically go deeper and further into the role.
I like the way that different people recognise me for the roles I done
Why do we insist women are cast 10 years younger than the role they're playing? Men don't know what a 30-year-old is supposed to look like because on TV she's always 20.
It's actually easier to play a leading role than it is to play a supporting role.
There is a large element of me in every role I do.
The trailblazers are my role models in this industry: Sidney Poitier, Harry Belafonte, James Earl Jones, and Billy Dee Williams. I keep their pictures in my trailer and try to measure to their standards every time I act.
I always approach comedy roles pretending they aren't funny.
It's weird because every movie that I do is always a role that reminds me of a role that 'Pac would have done. And when 'Pac did 'Juice,' he was young - probably like 21, 22 - something like that. And that's my favorite actor. I know it might be weird to say, but he was talented on screen, and that's who I studied.
I feel like I'm a very good role model for women.
Don Knotts won five Emmy Awards for Outstanding Performance in a Supporting Role by an Actor or Actress in a Series [in Andy Griffith Show] in 1961, 1962, 1963, 1966 and 1967.
The role of a trainer or consultant is to empower the customer, not to make himself indispensable
My life will have been a succession of lives, as if I have had several lives, a multiplicity of stories and roles. I have not ceased to have changes of life.
The evidence is there and it is clear. We want the people to be held accountable. Everybody who played a role in the death of Martin Anderson, we want them to be held accountable.
When I choose a role it's either because I recognise the man, or that I'm very curious to know him. If I neither recognise nor know him, then it is better that I don't play him.
some actors seek parts similar to their personalities. But, I prefer undergoing a metamorphosis that depends on the role .
Of all the roles I've done on the stage, I'm partial to Cyrano de Bergerac.
I don't act in the way other actresses act, in terms of building or creating a character. I don't transform myself into the role, I invest myself in the role.
Satire has its limits. It is really up to the people to make the change. The satirist's role ends at the screen.
When I was playing, it would be whatever role I wanted. Now it's whatever they ask me to do, which I kind of like better.
My family life and early political life - being exposed to the news constantly, being enrolled in an Afrocentric education program, and doing the extracurriculars I did - played a huge role in me finding my path.
Every person that steps up and commits to social change helps solidify the black movement cause. It is not easy for those who fill in the leader role.
I'm half Jewish, but no one believes me because my looks lean a little WASP-y... It's sometimes hard for me to get the roles I'm drawn to.
I think a primal role of a man in a relationship is to protect his woman.
The way I go about choosing roles is basically by just trying to pick the complete opposite of the last thing I did, or if it has someone else who I really have wanted to work with.
