A Quote by Anna Gunn

As an actor, my job is not to always play characters who make everybody happy. That's not interesting.

Anna Gunn

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Anna Gunn
American - Actress
Born: August 11, 1968

It is the writer’s job to make the play interesting. It is the actor’s job to make the performance truthful.

David Mamet

Everybody has parts of themselves that they're not 100% happy with - that's what makes you human. And being an actor, your job is to play human beings. Your job is to play real people.

Katie Lowes

I think everybody likes to play the villain. They're always much more interesting characters.

Maria Doyle Kennedy

I think everybody likes to play the villain. Theyre always much more interesting characters.

Maria Doyle Kennedy

Even while I'm really interested in playing female characters that are varied and interesting and dynamic, I'm not of the mind that you always want to play strong female characters. I think I just want to play characters that are interesting, and not all people are 'strong.'

Tessa Thompson

I think it's interesting playing characters who are flawed and make mistakes because we all have - no one's just one thing - no one is just bad or just good - so I like finding flawed characters and playing with their redeeming qualities, whether you play it outwardly or not. I think that one of the reasons I'm an actor is that I love people and I love finding out who they are and why they do the things they do, so it is fun to play those kinds of characters.

Alexandra Daddario

My job is not to make you happy. As a filmmaker and as an actor, my job is not to make you feel happy. If you're used to those kind of films, don't come and watch my films.

Manoj Bajpayee

My face lends itself to austere characters, and unless they're two-dimensional, I will do them. Any actor will tell you that an interesting villain is much more interesting to play.

Charles Dance

Everybody is an actor, whether you play the main lead or one of the supporting characters.

Deepti Naval

As an actor, it's my job to make everything interesting and exciting and new. If I'm not doing my job well, then I'm stealing.

Allison Mack

As an actor, the ambition is to play interesting characters. And in the indie genre world, the budgets are low. That allows me, as an actor, not to have a financial value behind my name, to justify me being in these bigger parts for these types of movies.

A. J. Bowen

I love being an actor and a job is a job, and I'm always happy to have a job.

Toks Olagundoye

I wanted to play characters that were going to make me better and really challenge me to raise my skill level up or that were just interesting to me personally. I want to be the best actor I can be, and I want to be the most creative actor I can be. I want to take on roles that will move the chain to where I finally want to go.

Brian Michael Smith

All you ever want as an actor is to play psychologically complex, interesting characters and Jeremy Bamber is at the very least that.

Freddie Fox

My job is that of an actor. As long as I get to act, get some interesting parts to play, get to be a part of interesting stories, I would certainly want to do it.