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I don't pick roles based on how famous they are going to make me; I pick roles based on how they're going to inspire me intellectually.
Erin Daniels
Me
Inspire
Pick
Make
How
Intellectually
Roles
Going
Famous
Based
When I first started acting, I had all these ideals about the kinds of roles I wanted to play, but the reality is that when you do television - and I do a lot of television - you get cast for qualities that you have as a person. So I look for qualities that I like to portray.
Erin Gray
You
Reality
First
Television
Kinds
About
Cast
Had
Like
Ideals
Look
Qualities
Lot
Person
Get
Roles
Wanted
Acting
Play
Portray
Started
There are some jobs that you go for because achieving them would take your career in a direction that you would like it to go, but mostly, I want to play the roles and have had the great good fortune and opportunities to play some fantastic roles and been very, very fortunate.
Essie Davis
Good
Great
You
Opportunities
Jobs
Would
Some
Direction
Take
Had
Like
Mostly
Because
Go
Been
Very
Roles
Want
Achieving
Them
Fantastic
Your
Fortunate
Fortune
Play
Good Fortune
Career
I have never been interested in specific roles.
Estelle Parsons
Never
Been
Roles
Interested
Specific
I don't take roles I can't respect. If I can't find a reason to be respectful of the character, I won't do it because I couldn't do it justice.
Esther Rolle
Character
Justice
Respect
Respectful
Find
Take
Because
Roles
Reason
I am obsessed with the idea of transformation. I have been very lucky so far to play very different roles - and I would love for that to continue.
Eugene Simon
Love
Transformation
Would
Idea
Obsessed
Am
Continue
Been
Very
Roles
Different
Far
Different Roles
Lucky
Play
Hmm, limelight... No, I'm not Sienna Miller or Angelina Jolie. I'm very lucky and happy, but I still find it very difficult to get good scripts and good roles. It's really a jungle out there.
Eva Green
Good
Happy
Difficult
Out
Find
Angelina Jolie
Good Scripts
Limelight
Still
Very
Jungle
Get
Roles
Scripts
Really
Lucky
Miller
It's true that I'm drawn to unusual stories. Normal roles don't really attract me.
Eva Green
Me
Drawn
True
Attract
Unusual
Normal
Roles
Stories
Really
I give everything to my work, and I like complex roles, characters that aren't obvious. I've been very lucky so far, and I'm dreaming of working with directors like Jane Campion, Susanne Bier and the Dardennes. But the gods will decide.
Eva Green
Work
Will
Everything
Complex
Characters
Dreaming
Give
Directors
Like
Obvious
Been
Very
Roles
Gods
Decide
Jane
Far
Working
Lucky
At drama school, I always picked the really evil roles. It's a great way to deal with your everyday emotions.
Eva Green
Great
Emotions
School
Evil
Drama
Everyday
Drama School
Way
Picked
Great Way
Deal
Always
Roles
Really
Your
There aren't a lot of roles in comedy for women of a certain age to play, especially with a 22-year-old.
Eva Gutowski
Age
Women
Comedy
Lot
Roles
Certain
Certain Age
Play
When you are a rapper, there's always hesitation in taking on certain roles because of creditability, but Rza is one of those guys who doesn't worry about what people will say. He's a talented guy and can dive into anything.
Evan Ross
You
People
Rapper
Will
Hesitation
Worry
Say
Those
About
Dive
Guy
Guys
He
Taking
Talented
Because
Always
Roles
Anything
Certain
Who
If you're a woman doing classic theater, the big roles are often destroyers. I've played Hedda Gabler, Lady Macbeth, some of the Chekhovian heroines, Electra, Phaedra - they're all powerful women, but they're forces of negativity.
Eve Best
You
Woman
Women
Big
Heroines
Negativity
Macbeth
All-Powerful
Classic
Some
Powerful
Forces
Doing
Roles
Often
Lady
Theater
Played
We've never thought too deeply about the roles things like forgetting or partisanship or inefficiency or ambiguity or hypocrisy play in our political or social life. It's been impossible to get rid of them, so we took them for granted, and we kind of thought, naively, that they're always the enemy.
Evgeny Morozov
Life
Enemy
Political
Impossible
Thought
Hypocrisy
Too
Took
Our
Kind
About
Never
Like
Partisanship
Inefficiency
Always
Been
Ambiguity
Get
Roles
Forgetting
Social
Them
Social Life
Granted
Rid
Play
Deeply
Things
I'm a comedian at heart, and I really can make people laugh, but ever since 'Amadeus,' all I seem to do is play dramatic roles and villains.
F. Murray Abraham
Heart
People
Dramatic
Laugh
Seem
Since
Comedian
Make
Roles
Really
Villains
Ever
Play
I try to choose characters that don't remind the audience of my previous roles. I make a conscious effort for that.
Fahadh Faasil
Try
Characters
Previous
Remind
Make
Audience
Effort
Roles
Choose
Conscious
Conscious Effort
Failure is part and parcel of the process of experimenting with roles and films.
Fahadh Faasil
Failure
Films
Parcel
Part
Part And Parcel
Roles
Experimenting
Process
I don't think a multi-starrer or a solo film has anything to do with your choice of films. That is a bit of a primitive concept, really. Yes, you might want to keep a healthy balance, but that has more to do with the kind of roles you are playing.
Fawad Khan
You
Balance
Healthy
Think
Films
Bit
Solo
Kind
More
Primitive
Concept
Yes
Roles
Want
Anything
Might
Really
Choice
Your
Keep
Film
Playing
I have done films only because my roles were good in them. It has got nothing to do with being associated with any particular camp.
Fawad Khan
Good
Nothing
Films
Only
Particular
Because
Got
Were
Camp
Roles
Any
Done
Being
Them
Associated
I created 'The Guild' because nobody was offering me the roles I thought I could do best at in Hollywood.
Felicia Day
Best
Me
Thought
Guild
Could
Nobody
Because
Offering
Roles
Hollywood
Created
I think there is an enormous appetite for great roles for women. You can see that clearly with things like 'The Hunger Games.'
Felicity Jones
Great
You
Women
Think
Enormous
Hunger
Hunger Games
See
Clearly
Like
Roles
Games
Appetite
Things
I think there is an enormous appetite for great roles for women.
Felicity Jones
Great
Women
Think
Enormous
Roles
Appetite
So many roles for women demand that you make the audience fall in love with you or sympathise with you.
Felicity Kendal
Love
You
Women
Fall
Sympathise
Demand
Make
Audience
Roles
Many
I think in the acting world you either manage that transition to older roles, or you stick with what you've always done and then discover nobody can bear you doing it as an older person.
Felicity Kendal
You
World
Older
Think
Bear
Nobody
Stick
Always
Doing
Discover
Person
Roles
Manage
Done
Either
Transition
Then
Acting
I had been playing really interesting roles before I got great roles. Little ones - 'The Crying Game' I loved working on, and then 'Bird,' 'Ghost Dog,' so many films.
Forest Whitaker
Great
Game
Dog
Bird
Before
Films
Ghost
Had
Crying
Got
Been
Roles
Loved
Interesting
Little
Then
Really
Working
Many
Playing
I've been fortunate, I guess: I've gotten to play a lot of very diverse roles for quite a long time. But in the beginning, I was thinking, 'I'm not gonna do certain characters. I will be willing to say no and live on a couch.' And I was really happy.
Forest Whitaker
Time
Happy
Will
Long
Long Time
Beginning
Live
Thinking
Guess
Say
Characters
Willing
Diverse
Couch
Gotten
Been
Lot
Very
Roles
Quite
Quite A Long Time
In The Beginning
Gonna
Really
Certain
Fortunate
Play
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