Experience matters for some roles and not others.
The time-honored role of the artist [is] to speak truth to power.
The roles... the deep roles that I've gotten to play have turned my course. They've changed my life experience.
The bad thing about being with an actor is that the role he's in stays with him all the time. The good thing about being with an actor - well, I can't think of any good thing.
I'm not one of those actors who gets physically fit for a role and then loses it all again.
What you aim for, as an actor, is to be able to play a range of different roles.
My parents are desperate, they keep saying: 'Please stop doing these angsty roles; make it easier for us.' So, yeah, I'd love to do some comedy.
Even now, for women to be contemplating the act of ending their life is considered horrific because they are the giver of life. They're seen in a patriarchal society as the one who offers life and has to nurture a child and have a child within them. That's your only role.
I’ve loved the whole process. From previews to rehearsals, I’m in the best company. I’ve done one West End show before this but the excitement here…it’s incredible. It’s been a real education working on this, I don’t feel worthy. The role is over the top, bold and ridiculous.
A lot of straight actors are actively searching for gay roles because it is something different to do.
I'm really curious as to the actual structure of the Emni [the intelligence unit that handles foreign attacks]. And Abu Muhammad al-Adnani, the head of it. There are so few pictures of him. We don't even really know what he looks like. For somebody with this outsized influence projecting murder abroad, you'd think that we would know a lot more by now. And then the role of the hostages.
I'm not fussy about the medium I work in. I'll do television radio, you know. I have to, because that's the only way I can do continually good roles.
ITV and the production company contacted me and asked if I fancied playing the role [of Maigret]. It took me a long time to decide to do it. In fact, I decided not to. I thought about it for some weeks, and thought 'perhaps not' and it went away for a while, and then it sort of came back. They said 'Are you sure you don't want to play him?', so I thought about it for a lot longer again, and eventually decided that I would.
I'm not looking for anything other than an interesting role to play.
I was very willing to take on controversial roles that people didn't really want to look at.
It's interesting when you go out into the world and see which of your roles have affected people.
I often do very serious roles, but really I am a big clown.
Even though these days I'm very selective about what roles I want to do, I will do Stargate anytime they call.
The media has become more forceful, has begun to recognize its traditional historic role and act on it, and truth is infectious.
Apple isn't the next Microsoft, you see. Apple is not the next anything because the role it aspires to transcends anything imaginable by Microsoft, ever. Google is the next Microsoft, so Google is seen by Ballmer as the immediate threat - the one he has a hope in hell of actually doing something about.
Few concepts are as basic as the role of workers in our economic structure and their participation in equity ownership.
I don't know if I could ever really be cast in a heartthrob role apart from 'Twilight,' which I didn't really know was a heartthrob role. I really don't feel I am one.
I had to do two roles in two days, I'm in a hairflux.
In planning an attack, persons have various roles.
I think I have a lot to offer doing supporting roles as well.
