Famous Quotes & Sayings

Amanda Peet

When I read "The Whole Nine Yards" I was like, 'Okay, this is a G-spot role'.

Christopher Walken

I have always refused to do something that has offended me. I have been offered potential roles that are totally vulgar.

Christopher Mintz-Plasse

It's always the script first choosing roles. [Then] whoever else is attached. I never like to be the first person attached, because I don't really trust what's going on, unless there's a really good director.

Andrea Riseborough

In my case, when you dive into a role, to do well and for you to do well in it, you have to put an enormous amount of faith in the director. But you also have to decide you're so interested in the material, this director, his work, and his process, that you don't care about the outcome.

Anthony Hopkins

I don't have any [favourite role]. I'm just a working actor.

Jason Clarke

I can't complain about the roles that have come my way.

January Jones

I choose roles that are not me.

Ricky Gervais

There are so many films now where you know the story is a supporting role to the visual effects.

Brian Chesky

I had to learn to get comfortable in a role of ambiguity where I had to seek out advisers and learn quickly.

Boman Irani

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.

Boman Irani

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.

Bradley Whitford

When you act, you're always playing a version of yourself. You can't bring more to the role than what you are

Bruce Lee

Stop wasting time in playing a role or a concept. Instead, learn to ACTUALIZE YOURSELF, your potential.

David Riesman

If anything remains more or less unchanged, it will be the role of women.

Benedict Cumberbatch

Landing the role of Stephen Hawking was the most positively surprising thing that has happened to me.

Bela Lugosi

Of all the roles I've done on the stage, I'm partial to Cyrano de Bergerac.

Asa Butterfield

For every role you get, there are five roles that you don't.

Daniel Gillies

I'm not George Clooney, so I can't just pick and choose. I take roles where they occur.

Clark Gable

I bring to a role everything I am, was and hope to be.

Bea Arthur

I'm not playing a role. I'm being myself, whatever the hell that is.

Avi Arad

You can have a role in a movie that was originally something minor in terms of screen time, and all of a sudden we see something and go, wow, that's cool.

Brian Tee

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

Brian Aldiss

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

Brendan Fraser

I always approach comedy roles pretending they aren't funny

Jamie Fellner

Prisons are woefully ill-equipped for their current role as the nations primary mental health facilities.

Ed Speleers

I want to go to the extremes and transformation is something I'm fascinated by. At the same time, you can transform but you can only really put what you've got inside you into somebody, so there's always going to be a degree of you inhabiting any role.

Elizabeth Pena

Every time I work with a European director, I find they hire the person that captures the spirit of the role. Americans tend to hire the best face. The person that looks more like the role, whether they can perform the role or not is a bonus.

Alan Watts

The role of the Guru is to show the person that he already has what he is looking for.

Alan Autry

I am convinced that your Mayor must take the leadership role in education too.

Catherine Deneuve

I choose my roles carefully.

Cary Elwes

I take away something from every role.

Cary Elwes

I take away something from every role. I'm still learning and that's what life is about.

Caroline Kennedy

Well, the role of money in politics is pretty corrupting right now.