It's fun to get away from myself for a while when I take on these roles that have very different personalities from my own. I get to say things I normally wouldn't say or act in ways I normally wouldn't act. After all, such roles are more challenging because you really have to immerse yourself in the character.
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Related I look for roles that allow me to immerse in different worlds, immerse in worlds that are different ... EDGAR RAMIREZ When I get tired, I start eating things that I wouldn't normally crave, like biscuits, because t... CAROL VORDERMAN I like it when people make an effort to wear things that you wouldn't normally put together - I ... BAT FOR LASHES I'm quite lucky in that at certain angles I look all right, and at others I don't look so go... TOM RILEY I wouldn't call being a chef gratifying in a lot of ways. It's an act of love. ALEX GUARNASCHELLI If I were to listen to people all the time when they say, 'Hey, this is a really high challenge,... GABRIEL E. GOMEZ I wouldn't say I have a lack of fear. In fact, I'd like my fear emotion to be less because i... ELON MUSK It would be easy to say that I want to play a role that was very much like myself, but more or less ... SUMMER ALTICE There's a variety and depth to the song topics I get to write about in children's music and ... LISA LOEB I wouldn't call myself a shut-in. I have the ability to leave my home; I just choose not to. But... AMY SEDARIS I don't just act to pay my rent. I really like doing it, so I get frustrated when I don't ge... MACKENZIE DAVIS Acting is sort of an extension of childhood. You get to play all of these roles and have so much fun... JON HAMM What's amazing with 'The X Factor' is that it gives people a chance who wouldn't nor... CYNTHIA ERIVO I'm interested in doing movies I wouldn't normally be interested in doing. ERIC STOLTZ I think you're attracted to things that are different from yourself in a character because it... FELICITY JONES I don't believe you can get into somebody's character but more that somebody comes in you. Y... CARICE VAN HOUTEN Once I know people know who I am, it gives me a lot of licence and freedom to behave in ways I would... LARRY DAVID My thing about looking good is that it should be the character. If I'm playing a character who... AIDAN QUINN I'm thankful to say that I already have my dream job. I wouldn't trade it for anything. NATHAN KRESS I was lucky to book a show pretty quickly after getting to L.A., but I struggled getting started in ... JACQUELINE MACINNES WOOD If my life depended on being a social-media person in terms of talking myself up, I probably would b... BABYFACE I don't get angry very often. I lose my temper rarely. And when I do, there's always a legit... JULIA ROBERTS My mother is massively into sailing, so we always had Musto clothes, and it went on from there, real... ZARA PHILLIPS I wouldn't want to go back over my life. I've done it all. I wouldn't have wanted to mis... ART DONOVAN But that's something that I like about scoring film: it makes me reach out of the parameters of ... JIM COLEMAN 'Fiancee' is a very fun word to say, because I never thought I would have a fiancee or be a ... KIRSTEN VANGSNESS The Green Lanterns are very forward and very courageous, very forceful. The Red Lanterns are out of ... GEOFF JOHNS There's something about me that suggests I don't have an intelligent atom in me at all. So p... JENNIFER COOLIDGE My mother tongue, Mende, is very expressive, very figurative, and when I write, I always struggle to... ISHMAEL BEAH I always had a lot of fun in America, with much more freedom than if I had tried to cook in France. ... DANIEL BOULUD I wouldn't have dared ask God for all that He's given me. I couldn't have done it on my ... LORETTA LYNN It can get really messy inside my head, and it's usually just because everybody can get really s... BRIE LARSON I discovered that I act because I really love to act. I don't act because maybe it will get me a... JOHN CORBETT I was very unhappy when I used to record and things wouldn't turn out the way I would want to, b... BUFFY SAINTE-MARIE I wouldn't say I have comedy chops. I guess you get lucky with good writing because I don't ... MICHAEL PENA Don't be afraid to be who you really are. Enjoy it and don't take it and yourself so serious... SHAWN MICHAELS If I hadn't read all of Jane Austen and DH Lawrence, Tolstoy and Proust, as well as the more fun... SEBASTIAN FAULKS I wouldn't call myself religious. I'm spiritual. Everybody's a bit more so as you get ol... GARRY HYNES All the parts I get offered are character and comedy parts, and I probably wouldn't get them if ... MACKENZIE CROOK I wouldn't say I was grumpy. It's more pathological - I have seismic tantrums. I get red in ... JENNY ECLAIR I wouldn't say I'm a feminist, but I don't like girls pretending to be stupid because it... AMY WINEHOUSE I wouldn't be doing this if it wasn't fun. It's just a whole different thing these days. BILL KREUTZMANN Character roles only indicate that they're very different from who you are as a person, and for ... MARK HAMILL I think when I first started acting there were different people who I thought, 'I want that pers... CARLA GUGINO I can act normally, and I can go out, but people around you don't act normally. If it was normal... CHERYL COLE Movies are collaborative, and that's part of what makes it a great experience. They're diffe... CASEY AFFLECK I don't want to be disrespectful to people who are incredible at their craft, but the truth is, ... PADDY CONSIDINE I wouldn't say that my songs are autobiographical. GEORGE HARRISON We have different personalities, but in a harmonious way, I'd say. Anyway, we were booked to pla... BENNY GREEN Love is really my nemesis. I never really allowed myself to indulge in such basic things because I w... MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS I wouldn't call myself a method actor, but I have my own method. I do my own research. I come up... JEREMY IRONS I felt a failure because I couldn't sustain myself from what I earned from my writing. My day jo... SANDRA CISNEROS My compositions are, I would say, like pages ripped from a diary that I don't really want to sha... CECILE MCLORIN SALVANT It's fun for me to try to write concise, compact things. It's a very good exercise for me. A... WILLIAM T. VOLLMANN It's not a field, I think, for people who need to have success every day: if you can't live ... MICHAEL KORDA I don't like music docs, usually. There's nothing to really say. What can you say about musi... MALIK BENDJELLOUL All writers have a love-hate relationship with writing. Performing is fun, too, but I wouldn't s... LARRY WILMORE When I have to play the same role every day, I have the flexibility to play the character in so many... SIMON BAKER Bob Hope was totally regimented. I go in and say a line like, 'Hi Bob' and I'd have to d... DON RICKLES Women in their 40s have gone through quite a few different things, and so the roles are going to ref... NAOMI WATTS There were only ever two black kids at my school. I never considered myself to be 'a black kid... DALEY THOMPSON I have a loyalty that runs in my bloodstream, when I lock into someone or something, you can't g... JERRY LEWIS Color always vexed me because I would fight with the media I was using. I love coloring in Photoshop... ADAM HUGHES I think that probably the - I don't give quotes to studios. They have to get those out of the pa... ROGER EBERT After I got to Hollywood, I resented that I didn't get a crack at more dramatic roles because I ... MAUREEN O'HARA My mother gave me a push. If I hadn't had her, maybe I wouldn't have had the push. If I hadn... SAM DONALDSON It would be a great vacation to act in a movie if I weren't directing it. But to do it while you... SYDNEY POLLACK Pitchers did me a favor when they knocked me down. It made me more determined. I wouldn't let th... FRANK ROBINSON Honestly, I try and stay away from what's been written about me, because if you let that stuff g... TAYLOR LAUTNER I'm aware of the decisions I make and the responsibility I have as a role model. I wouldn't ... NAOMI SCOTT If I had to describe myself, I wouldn't use words like 'hero.' I wouldn't use 'p... EDWARD SNOWDEN I didn't want to get that ring around my lips from practicing the trumpet, because I thought the... WYNTON MARSALIS I read a lot of news online, but I like buying a paper because I'll read an article I wouldn'... EDDIE KAYE THOMAS If I didn't have to do it, I wouldn't have done it. If I had a million bucks in the bank, I ... CLAUDIA CHRISTIAN I've stammered all my life, and it's fair to say that my stammer has shaped my life. It'... GARETH GATES I have never been one of those actors who say, 'Oh, my character wouldn't do this,' or &... D. B. SWEENEY I don't know that many Australian actors in Los Angeles, but there are a few of us. I mean, we k... XAVIER SAMUEL Playing college soccer was going to be the top of my athletic feats. I wasn't going to the Olymp... MARK ZUPAN When I played a club in Salt Lake City, I complained to the crowd about the low turnout. It's al... ANDY KINDLER I've had that experience many, many, times - when you don't get roles. I'd developed a g... ALDEN EHRENREICH When I'm doing a one-on-one with somebody, I have to speak in a language that that person can un... LEA SALONGA I mean one of the basic rules when you're acting is that you mustn't stand in judgement on a... JANET SUZMAN I did two movies that were arthouse movies; they were critically successful but made no money at all... DANIEL ESPINOSA I wouldn't say I'm a Method actor, but I do try to focus very deeply on what character I'... SEAN BEAN I don't like it when people who are young act like they're 40. That's taking too much on... TAYLOR SWIFT I don't use my writing career as a vehicle to get me acting work or to write roles for myself. DANNY STRONG I didn't want to play a rancher. I didn't want to have a cowboy hat on; I wanted to get away... TIM MCGRAW In America... it's not divided, but with Trump now, it's like you are asking for trouble. We... MO FARAH I don't know if I've ever played a character who's close to me. There have been some ele... KAREN ALLEN American people are very patriotic, but there is no driver to get behind and support. I don't se... ALEXANDER ROSSI There's a magic that comes from playing entirely to who you are. I've got my specialist subj... CHRIS OFILI I have no choice about whether or not I have Parkinson's. I have nothing but choices about how I... MICHAEL J. FOX I like to disappear in my roles because I don't have an assistant. TARAJI P. HENSON I won't say I didn't like it at the time, the sex, that is, because I wouldn't have let ... CHRISTINE KEELER When I'm watching somebody act, it's a behavior editorial function - I look at someone act, ... DAVID FINCHER Normally I don't watch myself, because I'm not very objective. NANCY MCKEON I wouldn't say I'm a mummy's girl, but I have grown to have a tremendous appreciation of... GWYNETH PALTROW I wouldn't compare myself to any past Idol contestant, because I don't feel like I am like a... NAIMA ADEDAPO I wouldn't say I'm girl-crazy, because that makes me sound like a bit of a womanizer. That i... HARRY STYLES I made more money yesterday than I ever thought I'd make in an entire lifetime. But it's lik... JIMMY DEAN
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