Roles Quotes - Page 12

• I think audiences are a lot more intelligent than what we give them credit for and understand that an actor is playing a role and that doesn't mean he can't play different types of roles.

  Cillian Murphy

  Mean, Intelligent, Thinking

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• I'm wildly impressed with the diversity of gay roles.

  Neil Patrick Harris

  Gay, Diversity, Impressed

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. September 16, 2008.

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• A lot of women get out of the business because it's so not family-friendly. And so women that could be in there making good women-roles don't do it, 'cause they're smart and get out.

  Joan Cusack

  Smart, Good Woman, Friendly

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, film.avclub.com. May 26, 2008.

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• I see myself as no color. I can play the role of a man. I can paint my face white if I want to and play the role of white. I can play a green, I can be a purple. I think I have that kind of frame and that kind of attitude where I can play an animal. If you think in color, then everyone around you is going to think in color and that puts limits on the way you think. I don't think like that. A lot of the roles that I'm doing are roles that a man or a person of any color can do.

  Grace Jones

  Attitude, Thinking, Animal

  "New Again: Grace Jones". Interview with Andy Warhol, André Leon Talley, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 16, 2014.

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• I think that what's funny is that I seem to be taking up the roles that I remember my dad having - for some reason, I'm the one who makes the coffee, and my dad was always that guy. It's kind of shocking how closely I compare to my dad.

  James Mercer

  Dad, Coffee, Thinking

  "James Mercer of The Shins". Interview with Marc Hawthorne, music.avclub.com. February 9, 2007.

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• Sometimes I'll read things in the script and think, "That's not how humans behave," or "I don't understand how to do that role and make it seem like I'm not some kind of strange alien or on a sitcom." I don't get it, and when I feel that way, I have to listen to my instinct. My initial instinct does lead me in a direction that I can trust.

  Maggie Gyllenhaal

  Thinking, Doe, Way

  Interview with Kyle Ryan, www.avclub.com. July 16, 2008.

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• I really do think that every time you play a role well, you are in danger of being identified with that role until the next big thing comes along.

  Michael Emerson

  Thinking, Play, Next

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• It's a really unique acting opportunity to play two roles who are not only interacting with each other, but vastly different.

  Jesse Eisenberg

  Unique, Opportunity, Play

  "Richard Ayoade and Jesse Eisenberg on Dostoyevsky and Doppelgänger". Interview with Deenah Vollmer, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 23, 2014.

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• Since I've started to star in pictures I have always managed to retain my singularity of purpose when I got into the business, which was to be an artist, as an actor, more than anything else. But to get the certain kind of role you want, you have to be in a certain position in the business and it's dog-eat-dog and it gets very hairy and you can lose your point of view sometimes.

  Bruce Dern

  Dog, Stars, Artist

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• There's no time in life to do all the roles I'd like to play.

  Bruce Dern

  Play

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I started to write songs. And I started to like what I was writing. I think it's a new way for me to express things that are closer to myself than when I play a role, because, of course, it's really not me. I'm finding a new way. I don't know what it's going to be. But I know that I will need to give it to people one day.

  Marion Cotillard

  Song, Writing, Thinking

  Interview with John Cameron Mitchell, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 20, 2014.

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• I'm trying to avoid any more asshole roles, at least for a little bit. The main criteria for me when choosing a project is a good director. I just want to work with these guys that I admire because I do want to direct my own films one day, and I want to pick their brains to see what their process is like, and see what I can take from that.

  Dave Franco

  Guy, Brain, Trying

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• To be honest, I don't see myself acting forever. I just can't imagine myself being a 70-year-old man fighting for roles. I would love to do small parts in my friends' movies or things that I'm directing myself. I do envision myself behind the camera as I get a little bit older.

  Dave Franco

  Fighting, Men, Years

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I wouldn't be where I am without these Funny or Die videos in general. When I was first starting out, I would take roles just to get the experience, but not exactly because I believed in the projects I was doing.

  Dave Franco

  Video, Starting Out, Firsts

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The role of campaign contributions in our political system and the role of lobbyists have now reached levels that are quite unhealthy for the operations of our democracy. But the antidote, as in past eras of lobbyist excess, is for more involvement by citizens to build pressure on members of the House and Senate to serve the public interest.

  Al Gore

  Past, House, Political

  ""What in the Hell Do They Think Is Causing It?"". Interview with John Dickerson, www.slate.com. December 8, 2009.

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• There are skeptics who do not come to their view because they have a source of income from carbon polluters. I don't mean to imply that they're all in that category at all. There are also those who are also not motivated by ideological resistance for any role of government. But I don't know of any arguments or any presenters of arguments that overturn the consensus that I think have gained any legitimacy.

  Al Gore

  Mean, Thinking, Government

  ""What in the Hell Do They Think Is Causing It?"". Interview with John Dickerson, www.slate.com. December 8, 2009.

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• I started doing roles and working with people that I really respected and became passionate about the art form of acting. And I'm still trying to figure it out. Still learning.

  Logan Lerman

  Art, People, Trying

  Interview with Michael Shannon, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 21, 2014.

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• Getting the role like this is such awonderful opportunity... I remember looking in the mirror and going 'I'm superman'.

  Henry Cavill

  Opportunity, Mirrors, Looking In The Mirror

  Interview with Elvis Mitchell, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 31, 2013.

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• There are these fantasies among people who watch movies where they're like, "Oh, there's a chemistry between them - something going on." And sometimes there is. But for me, it's more like, I go to work, I do a job, I play a role, and then I go home. I don't wear a cape at home. I'm not an invulnerable alien at home.

  Henry Cavill

  Jobs, Home, Play

  Interview with Elvis Mitchell, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 31, 2013.

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• I think I'm good with actors. I like directing actors. I also like to show up and just do an acting gig. Where I'm just a hired gun, I don't have to have an opinion on anything.I never got involved in all this stuff because I wanted to control stuff; I got involved in writing and producing because I wasn't getting interesting acting gigs. In a way I'm grateful that I didn't get interesting roles, because it made me pull my finger out and do some work.

  Steve Coogan

  Grateful, Writing, Gun

  Interview with Alfonso Cuarón, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 5, 2014.

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• I try to make all of my roles likeable in some way.

  Adam Brody

  Trying, Way, Likeable

  "Adam Brody Makes Some Winsome Wagers". Interview with Alice Greenberg, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 20, 2012.

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• I think being an actor in general is acknowledging that we are constantly playing different roles, that we have all these different parts of ourselves and instead of pretending that you are just one thing, as an actor you get to admit that you've got all this stuff going on.

  David Hyde Pierce

  Thinking, Different, Actors

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I've always played different kinds of roles, and I probably played more vulnerable parts when I was really young.

  Stephen Dorff

  Different, Kind, Vulnerable

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I'm just looking for interesting roles and giving acting the respect it deserves.

  Lenny Kravitz

  Giving, Interesting, Acting

  Interview with Raphael Saadiq, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 14, 2012.

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• When girls come up and say, "You're my role model," it's really flattering, but it's also really scary because I'm not perfect and I'm going to make mistakes.

  Ashley Greene

  Girl, Mistake, Role Models

  Interview with Michael Sheen, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 11, 2010.

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