Top 1200 Playing Roles Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

People often ask me why I don't take up more heroine-oriented roles. My question is, 'Where are these roles?' I really appreciate actresses who sign only films with meaty roles. However, there aren't too many of them. The industry is simply male-dominated.

Often, when I am playing difficult roles, I have a problem sleeping because I can't leave the character behind.

It is my good fortune that I am the first Sikh to be playing lead roles in Hindi films.

A couple of times I experimented with negative roles but they didn't work for me, and I went back to playing the good old Babuji.

I was looking for playing something positive on-screen, but I'm often offered roles that are either negative or grey.

I don't pick my roles based on what clothes I have to wear. I pick roles because of the character I have to portray, and the public have enjoyed seeing me in those roles.

I don't ever get the great looking lawyer roles because I've got a thick neck from playing football.

I'm an actor and I am looking for roles where I can continue to evolve, and things that are challenging. I gravitate to the roles, not necessarily television or film. It's just the fact that, for me, the most interesting roles have been in television.

I like the idea of sort of playing quieter roles, which would be refreshing for a minute. It is exhausting being really loud and obnoxious.

If you just look at the number of roles for women versus the number of roles for men in any given film, there are always far more roles for men. That's always been true. When I went to college, I went to Julliard. At that time - and I don't know if this is still true - they always selected fewer women than men for the program, because there were so few roles for women in plays. That was sort of acknowledgment for me of the fact that writers write more roles for men than they do for women.

My main goal, when I started acting, was to show as much versatility as possible because I like playing diverse roles.

I liked the character very much and even in general roles like this entice me. I started my journey in Punjabi film industry with negative roles, and then gradually comic roles and situational comedy fell into my kitty.

I guess I'm just good at playing repressed individuals. I'm lucky because those are often the roles that catch people's eyes.

We have a generation of black actors playing leading roles on film and TV - Idris Elba, Chiwetel Ejiofor - which is great and is breaking the mould.

I've worked a lot in comedy. As much as I love playing dramatic roles, it's always nice to be able to have some humor around when working.

I think I'm good at playing dramatic and serious roles, but it's not necessarily what I want to keep doing.

So much is made of good, strong roles for women. Actually, it's really interesting playing vul­nerable people as well.

I have enough drama in my career, and then always playing dramatic roles and storylines... I like to lead a very low profile.

Theater roles are written by the great masters. The greatest literature that you can possibly know are the theater roles like King Lear, Hamlet, and all of those great roles. So all you do is you dive into these unchallenged roles and see how far you can get, what kind of accolades you can get, and how good you can be in them. In movie roles, you can actually improve them by knowing a lot about your own stage technique, which helps a great deal in the cinema and how you can project inner humor even though the particular dialogue is not necessarily funny, but you can infuse it with humor.

I can't keep myself from playing roles. The emotionless decadent, looking for diversion from boredom, is a favorite.

You couldn't even write me a paper about the roles you would dream of playing in modern musical theatre.

What I normally do as an actor in playing different roles, I just have to do in a span of three seconds sometimes, so I think I'm lucky that I've been doing it so long that I can do it rather quickly.

The majority of the roles I've played are women who have been either impoverished or subjugated in some way. So while I've been fortunate enough to have success because these roles exist, they are stereotypical roles.

Honestly, playing negative roles is much more fun, because there are no restrictions.

Because of fear, and the way my career went, I started playing a lot of villainous roles.

I don't want to do 'Hamlet.' I don't want to do Robert Redford roles or Mel Gibson roles or Kevin Costner roles, because I'm not going to be good at them.

I've been playing these schoolgirl roles in all my movies. Every time I went to the set, it felt like I was going to school.

I'm naturally athletic, and I think playing strong, female roles just kind of happened.

I am completely grateful and pleased for the attention and the recognition I've received for playing the roles that I've played.

It's what I've always wanted to do and each part you play gets you closer and closer to the roles that you dreamed of playing.

I really love playing McKay. It's one of those roles where every day something is different.

Playing good girls in the 30s was difficult, when the fad was to play bad girls. Actually I think playing bad girls is a bore; I have always had more luck with good girl roles because they require more from an actress.

All I will say is that I'm playing a lot of different roles that, to be honest, are more interesting and demanding than any I've played before.

If I can have a career based on playing roles that are a challenge and tell an important story, and for no alternative reason, then I have succeeded.

Playing good girls in the '30s was difficult, when the fad was to play bad girls. Actually I think playing bad girls is a bore; I have always had more luck with good girl roles because they require more from an actress.

What I really want to do is create great roles for women. And I'm not talking Nicholas Sparks romance. I think women's roles have gotten ghettoized in these sort of places... I'm thinking women in action, comic books, or like the Tony Soprano of women. We need some complex roles.

I like roles that bring the unexpected. Roles that may challenge the way people think about things and perceive things. And I like roles that reflect a reality.

I've spent a lot of time playing roles that didn't really challenge me. I suppose every actor feels that way.

I feel like I'll be defined more so by ... when I get a chance to play roles where I'm the father/husband. I'd like to continue with the action stuff, but when I get to play the father/husband role, I think that will be the time where I'm playing who I really am. I look forward to playing those kind of heroic characters, the types that are usually associated with Denzel Washington.

I have not only played light-hearted roles, but many times, I end up playing this annoying girl in films.

I'm playing one of the principal roles, which gives you more clout and more confidence.

Every team I play, I'm playing them like we playing the Golden State when they had Kevin Durant. Every point guard I play, I'm playing Steph Curry. Every shooting guard I'm playing, I'm playing James Harden. Every three-man I'm playing, I'm playing LeBron and KD.

I love playing roles where it's not just the good guy or the bad guy.

I started playing small roles, but it's the stage that I enjoy the most, as that's where I can entertain people.

I like playing a variety of roles and characters, as it forces you to keep challenging yourself.

I used to do a lot of repertory theater. You're playing different roles all the time, and I love that.

We were using Brooke as an actress; she was playing different roles: a liberated woman, a teenager, a vamp.

I've built a career in Asia for 18 years, playing roles that had nothing to do with my race because everybody's Chinese in the films.

Our everyday self is a narrow construct...Our total self is far broader, ultimately infinite. Actors who seem to be playing themselves are actually playing roles they have become so skillful at that they seem pure and natural...Much bad Acting is the result of being too close to the Actor's everyday self, confining him in its rigid mold.

I don't have any problem playing second lead, or doing supporting roles. I am fine with it.

I think it shouldn't matter at all what character people play, but of course there is a narrative that's very clear, that openly gay men aren't playing straight in leading roles.

I don't want to play father roles. And I use father roles figuratively for roles that are just hanging around... don't want to be a piece of furniture in films.

I don't want to be in a position where I'm playing roles I'm comfortable with and making money, but doing it without feeling like I'm growing.

For nearly eight decades, I've had the great fortune of playing thousands of roles before millions of people.

I'm not some sort of tormented soul looking for an identity in the roles I take. I became an actress because I just love dressing up and playing.

I wake up and play a different person every day. Playing all these different characters and trying to figure out who your true authentic self is at the core of that as you're playing all these different roles, and man, that self-awareness starts to come into effect. And you start to see who you really are.

I was playing 40-year-old women when I was 20. I didn't get considered for ingenue roles.

I do keep getting these bad girl roles. The funny thing is that, honestly, I don't think I'm believable as these aristocratic mean girls. But I do love playing them.

I want to keep playing strong female roles. I don't mean superheroes, but women who are really alive.

I have been a scrappy actor for 10-plus years, and when you're playing supporting roles, your relationship with the costume designer is very different.