Roles Quotes - Page 86

There's this notion that in order to draw attention and to be considered for roles I want to be considered for, you need a certain amount of notoriety.

The litmus test for whether I want to take on a role or not is usually fear. If Im afraid of it, then I want to do it.

The role always attracts me. Sometimes I can read something and I can barely see the rest of the script.

I've done different conventions and had smaller roles in different sci-fi things.

I'd worked for Aaron Spelling before [Embraced] and I always felt like we had a nice connection. I pretty much walked in and looked at him like, "This is mine!" And by the time I was done with the audition, he was already speaking to me as if I had the role.

It's easy to question yourself and ask if you're doing a good job, but there are so many different factors to landing a role. I remind myself that a lot of it is completely out of my control.

I come from a huge theater background. The whole action and stunt world just came as the roles were available.

That's the artist's role - to strike out always for something new, to break away, to defy, to... grapple with the unfamiliar.

However you envisage your role in life, all you can do is perform it as best you can.

Earl Mills is probably the best role I've ever been given in a film. And it was a great experience to work with Halle [Berry] and Klaus Maria Brandauer, an Austrian actor who's a hero of mine. Martha Coolidge directed the movie [Introducing Dorothy Dandridge], giving me another shot, and it was an amazing experience.

[Fan In Lobby from Stardust Memories] that was just after The Dain Curse. My other big uncredited role from back then.

Cool is the emotional straightjacket. It makes us less available for connection which makes us less equipped for leadership roles.

The best roles have risks... and those are the parts I'm interested in.

We should all know this: that listening, not talking, is the gifted and great role, and the imaginative role.

I think Superman's journey is to become comfortable on earth. Of course he's got his role as earth's greatest protector but he also wants to be as happy as he can and if that happens to be with Lois then he's going to find a way.

Ive seen an increasing willingness to hire Canadians for lead roles that shoot up here. When I started, they would always just fly in L.A. people to do the lead roles.

I loved playing a dramatic role. There's a side of me a lot of people don't know, and when I do dramatic roles, it just all comes out.

I don't prepare for my roles. I don't watch movies to get inspired. I don't dig deep. I'll never be that type of actor, and I doubt that I ever will be.

Whatever role we were in our family of birth, we take on this persona and in your 20s and 30s in particular, you end up thinking that's you and that isn't necessarily you.

I was overjoyed when I was offered the title role in 'Well Done Abba.' I was ready for the role even before I heard the story because you don't ask questions when it is Shyam Benegal's film. It is the chance of a lifetime.

I usually go with roles that I find entertaining. But every once in a while, there comes along a film that has an important social message. As actors, we have a certain responsibility toward our audience.

The moment you say, 'I want to do a role,' the story suffers. I don't set priorities in terms of roles or scripts.

I still reject lead roles, as I don't accept any role if I don't find it challenging enough. I am very careful while making selections.

I just love to work and spend time with my family. And that's the reason I don't look at the length of the role, but what it has to offer me.

Id have to fight for an Australian role over an American actor, and I already have to do that overseas, so why would I have to do it back at home?