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One of the most important roles of our journalists is to be watchdogs.
Dan Rather
Important
Our
Journalists
Most
Important Roles
Roles
The Most Important
I think whenever you come in, whenever you try to evolve a company, people will get nervous. But, if you articulate a clear vision, a clear mission to help them understand their roles in it and ask them to buy into the system, everyone will band together to make it happen.
Dan Rosensweig
Buy
You
Together
People
Vision
Try
Will
Nervous
Band
Think
Everyone
System
Evolve
Clear
Clear Vision
Come
Mission
Make
Make It Happen
Understand
Articulate
Get
Roles
Whenever
Happen
Them
Ask
Help
Company
Don't sell credits; don't sell walk-on roles... If people want to back you, they'll back you. But if you have to entice people will walk-on roles and crazy credits, you're undermining yourself.
Dana Brunetti
Crazy
You
Yourself
People
Will
Back
Entice
Undermining
Sell
Roles
Want
Credits
Actors are at the mercy of roles that are offered.
Daniel Dae Kim
Mercy
Offered
Roles
Actor
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.
Daniel Wu
Nothing
Films
Everybody
Had
Because
Built
Years
Roles
Chinese
Race
Asia
Playing
Career
My main goal, when I started acting, was to show as much versatility as possible because I like playing diverse roles.
Daniela Ruah
Possible
Diverse
Main
Like
Because
Goal
Versatility
Roles
Much
Acting
Show
Started
Playing
Honestly, a lot of the time the character roles are the best roles.
Danielle Macdonald
Time
Best
Character
Honestly
Character Roles
Lot
Roles
It would be really cool to have some more roles where it doesn't matter how a character looks. You get a script, you see it, and it doesn't matter: there's no description of how the character looks in any way shape or form; it's just, whoever is right for the role is the person.
Danielle Macdonald
Character
You
Matter
Way
Would
Would-Be
See
Some
More
Shape
Looks
How
Role
Person
Get
Roles
Any
Just
Where
Form
Script
Really
Cool
Whoever
Description
Right
I've done a handful of great roles.
Danielle Panabaker
Great
Handful
Roles
Done
I think there are a lot more writers who are actors than you know; they just don't have roles on famous TV shows that you recognize.
Danny Strong
You
Think
Recognize
TV
TV Shows
More
Writers
Know
Lot
Than
Roles
Just
Famous
Who
Shows
Actor
I'm not opposed to doing science fiction or comedy, but there has to be respect. I refuse to be the joke, the fat woman joke, in any movie. I've turned down roles.
Darlene Cates
Respect
Science
Woman
Comedy
Joke
Down
Science Fiction
Doing
Opposed
Roles
Any
Refuse
Fiction
Movie
Turned
Fat
Coming out of 'Spy Kids,' I immediately wanted to do more grown-up roles, and I was turning down a lot of the kind of younger, cheesier roles.
Daryl Sabara
Down
Immediately
Kids
Out
Kind
More
Coming
Lot
Spy
Roles
Wanted
Younger
Turning
Grown-Up
I had been struggling to get roles in Hollywood for three and a half years after leaving the WWE. Then I finally got an agent - the agent I have now. He's a great guy, but he turned me down three times before he even decided to take me on a as a client.
Dave Bautista
Great
Me
Three
Half
Before
Down
Finally
Great Guy
Guy
Struggling
Take
Had
He
Half Years
WWE
Client
Got
Leaving
Been
Years
Times
Get
Roles
After
Decided
Hollywood
Turned
Agent
Then
Even
Now
I like dark, dramatic roles; they're just really powerful and real.
Daveigh Chase
Dark
Dramatic
Powerful
Like
Real
Roles
Just
Really
It's fun playing two roles. The roles provide a wonderful range of emotions. Stuart is childlike and sensitive. Adam is ruthless, outrageous. He's flamboyant. He does the unexpected.
David Canary
Emotions
Wonderful
Range
Ruthless
Stuart
Outrageous
He
Does
Provide
Roles
Unexpected
Flamboyant
Childlike
Sensitive
Fun
Adam
Playing
Two
I look to challenge myself with a character that's not like myself or anything I've done before, but I certainly don't reject roles based on how often I've done them.
David Gallagher
Myself
Character
Challenge
Before
Like
Look
How
Roles
Done
Often
Anything
Them
Certainly
Based
Reject
The Bolshoi style is bigger and more emotional, in a way that I love. It has the freshness and intensity that is like what I've tried to achieve in my dance-acting roles.
David Hallberg
Love
Achieve
Style
Way
Tried
More
Emotional
Like
Freshness
Roles
Intensity
Bigger
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.
David Harewood
Great
Generation
Black
TV
Leading
Mould
Roles
Which
Breaking
Film
Actor
Film And TV
Playing
I remember when I first came to Los Angeles being staggered by the range of roles open to me. These were leading parts in shiny new projects, and what always excited me was knowing there was a possibility that I could actually get these parts. I always had the impression that I had a chance.
David Harewood
Me
Remember
First
Projects
Range
Possibility
Angeles
Could
Open
Had
Remember When
Excited
Leading
New
Knowing
Parts
Always
Los
Came
Los Angeles
Were
Shiny
Impression
New Projects
Get
Roles
Being
Actually
Chance
There are structural problems within the industry that are preventing us from displaying aspirational black roles.
David Harewood
Problems
Black
Structural
Preventing
Industry
Within
Roles
Us
Displaying
'I Was There Too' talks to people who played non-starring roles in big movies. That means the likes of comedian Jimmy Pardo, who didn't make it to the finished 'Dreamgirls.' Still, he recalls that when an actor is put on hold for a movie, he gets paid for two weeks just for sitting at home waiting to be called.
David Hepworth
Home
Waiting
People
Finished
Big
Too
Jimmy
Weeks
He
Put
Comedian
Likes
Make
Talks
Still
Roles
Sitting
Gets
Just
Movie
Hold
Movies
Means
Paid
Who
Actor
Played
Two
Two Weeks
I don't think I would ever have taken on professional acting roles if I hadn't had the ability to fly. I had quite low self-esteem, and it gave me the self-confidence to believe I could do anything that I put my mind to.
David Jason
Me
Mind
Fly
Believe
Think
Gave
Would
Ability
Could
Had
Taken
Put
Self-Confidence
Self-Esteem
Roles
Quite
Anything
Low
Low Self-Esteem
Acting
Professional
Ever
People always ask me, 'Why so many historical dramas?' Because those are the best roles I get to play, and I get to play heroes in those roles.
David Oyelowo
Best
Me
People
Heroes
Dramas
Those
Because
Always
Historical
Get
Roles
Ask
Many
Why
Play
New platforms are emerging: Netflix, Amazon, Hulu and Xbox. And film actors are gravitating towards television, because there are basically better roles there. Television is making the kind of epics and genres that the movie studios used to make, and often doing it better with more complex narratives and corresponding budgets.
David S. Goyer
Better
Complex
Television
Kind
Corresponding
Netflix
Emerging
More
Studios
Towards
New
Budgets
Make
Genres
Because
Narratives
Making
Doing
Amazon
Roles
Hulu
Often
Movie
Epics
Used
Platforms
Film
Actor
Film Actors
Basically
I've always been short and stocky. So when I got into repertory theatre after graduation, I found myself doing character roles: because of my deep voice, shape and height, I was playing 40-year-old, 50-year-old roles at the age of 23.
David Suchet
Myself
Character
Age
Theatre
Character Roles
Voice
Shape
Because
Always
Got
Doing
Been
Repertory
Roles
Short
Graduation
After
Height
Deep
Found
Playing
I've been quite lucky in that I've managed to tick off a few of my dream roles, really. Beyond that, you wait for the next script to come in that will have the dream role that you don't know exists yet, I suppose.
David Tennant
You
Wait
Will
Few
Dream
Suppose
Come
Tick
Beyond
Know
Been
Off
Exists
Role
Roles
Quite
Script
Really
Next
Lucky
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