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When you're looking through a magazine, you'd think every single person's a different pe...
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Life is a blur when one is essaying different roles; it is so fulfilling.
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The progression of roles you take strings together a portrait of an actor, but it's a completely...
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Every project is a new challenge for an actor. If it's not, it's boring.
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When I'm a director, I look at myself the actor as a completely different person. It's someb...
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There's been a lot of role reversal going on in the band. The roles people have been playing for...
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Being an actor: that's a pretty big net. That's a big playing field. The Screen Actors' ...
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CIARA![]()
There's no such thing as too late. There are different roles for different ages, assuming an act...
AYELET ZURER That's what I love about acting, is playing different roles. I want to work for the character, a...
FRAN KRANZ![]()
Sean's a better person when he's directing. He becomes a queen when he's an actor. And h...
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You can be, like, a totally different person on camera, and it's fun. You can take on another ch...
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MARK HAMILL I like roles of people who can overcome things because there's strength in that and an arc - and...
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It's like playing tennis, you play a different rally with different people. Every actor is diffe...
TOM HIDDLESTON![]()
As a jobbing actor, you can't afford to be choosy; if you're typed, you're generally wor...
ROBERT ENGLUND It's been a lot of fun getting to work with Tracy Middendorf, who plays my mom. As an actor, it&...
WILLA FITZGERALD It's nice, though, getting older and being able to do different roles.
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If there's any message to my work, it is ultimately that it's OK to be different, that it...
JOHNNY DEPP I know that I've played a lot of comedic roles. It's a visual medium. When you get one role,...
FRAN KRANZ Acting has been gentrified. It's become part of the bourgeoisie. But there was a time when it wo...
JULIAN SANDS![]()
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Acting is something different to everybody. I just know that if you watch an actor or actress gettin...
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I think that's just a natural instinct as an actor is that you want to just keep exploring human...
ERIKA CHRISTENSEN When I was going into inventing, it wasn't a dream the way someone goes into nursing or dancing....
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The hardest thing as an actor is that you work really hard constantly for these roles, and you inves...
ADRIANNE PALICKI![]()
It's not like I try to be different, but every single person is unique, and every single person ...
LINDSEY STIRLING That's the great thing about being an actor, you get to try out lots of things for your roles.
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I think it's an actor's responsibility to change every time. Not only for himself and the pe...
JOHNNY DEPP I don't have a specific type of role that I aspire to play or aspire to act. I really like a cha...
VANESSA LENGIES As far as the lack of hits goes, I think perhaps it's because I've played a lot of different...
JEFF BRIDGES![]()
For so many years, I've been an actor acting in other people's movies, and in 'Unstoppab...
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God has to speak to each person in their own language, in their own idioms. Take Spanish, Chinese. Y...
HUSTON SMITH The post-'Merlin' era is an exciting time to look forward to. Variety is the spice of life. ...
BRADLEY JAMES![]()
I'd say my artistic bent definitely came from my father, who was a trial lawyer. And if you'...
OMARI HARDWICK![]()
Shakespeare is renewed each time you see it or read it. I've seen 'Midsummer Night's Dre...
MICHELLE DOCKERY All through my life, I didn't really consider my eyes at all, and then I became an actress. It&#...
ALICE EVE There aren't as many roles, and I think there's a lack of openness in casting an Asian chara...
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AARON TVEIT I'd love to be remembered as a character actor who brought illumination to roles in wonderful pl...
DAVID SUCHET You have to get out of your comfort zone in order to grow. And as an actor, you don't become Mer...
OCTAVIA SPENCER It's true in the beginning I started playing villains, and I think that's pretty clear, beca...
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If there's anything I'd hate as a son-in-law, it's an actor; and if there's anything...
JOSEPH P. KENNEDY It's fun to get away from myself for a while when I take on these roles that have very different...
KELSEY CHOW You spend enough time on set as an actor and it's great when a director was at some point an act...
IAN SOMERHALDER![]()
It's the same as Keith Richards. People still ask him the same questions they asked him 30 years...
SCOTT WEILAND![]()
The challenge for me as an actor is if you become a celebrity, you don't meet strangers anymore....
MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY![]()
The fact of the matter is that an actor, if I'm playing a performance capture role and you'r...
ANDY SERKIS![]()
I wake up and play a different person every day. Playing all these different characters and trying t...
ELIZA DUSHKU I've become really good at turning down the boring, pretty girl roles, the trophy wife, supermod...
REBECCA ROMIJN I like doing clay work. It's different from drawing on a page because you have something to mold...
BONNIE WRIGHT Because I've done so many different roles, I don't want to repeat myself. It's getting h...
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I've got the greatest job in the world. There's no other job in government where cause and e...
MICHAEL BLOOMBERG One of these days, I'd like to put together a revue of all my music, which would probably turn i...
NATALIE COLE When you say, 'Southern,' or you speak about a southern accent, there's always that draw...
ANGIE THOMAS Actually it's a gift as an actor to cover such different parts of history. It's like time tr...
SEBASTIAN KOCH You hand the baton on, and that's why roles like 'Medea' resonate for years and years, a...
DIANA RIGG It's funny: people who meet me say, 'I thought you'd be different.' But I'm stil...
BILL ENGVALL One of the defining things about my career on camera is I like to play different characters. That ge...
DIEDRICH BADER It's so funny because the roles that I've been offered in the indie film world have been sim...
COURTNEY FORD There's a history where, when women get to a certain age in this industry, the roles become stri...
DAKOTA FANNING![]()
If you put four different people on a podium conducting the same downbeat, you get four different so...
ITZHAK PERLMAN It's a writer's or director's role to be cerebral, whereas for an actor it should be a v...
NATALIE DORMER![]()
I think men and women are the same. Even as parents, I think we're the same. We're just cond...
RACHEL CUSK![]()
When an actor plays a scene exactly the way a director orders, it isn't acting. It's followi...
JAMES DEAN I've always chosen incredibly different roles and things that are quite offbeat. That way you...
ANNA FRIEL
LAURA OSNES I think when I first started acting there were different people who I thought, 'I want that pers...
CARLA GUGINO I admire actors that consistently challenge themselves and play a wide range of different roles. Eve...
JOE DEMPSIE
Any actor wants to do interesting roles, different roles. It's not all that much fun to do the s... CHRIS PINE I look for roles that allow me to immerse in different worlds, immerse in worlds that are different ...
EDGAR RAMIREZ When I have to play the same role every day, I have the flexibility to play the character in so many...
SIMON BAKER But we're all so different, we're different ages; we're not vying for the same roles. Th...
JEANNE TRIPPLEHORN I love to play different roles. That's just the kind of actor I am.
IDRIS ELBA There's something important, as an actor, about allowing yourself to be approached by people to ...
DAMIAN LEWIS
When you're looking through a magazine, you'd think every single person's a different pe... CAMERON RUSSELL The thing about being an actor is that you're acting. It's not that big of a deal of to play...
CAMERON MONAGHAN
Life is a blur when one is essaying different roles; it is so fulfilling. AMITABH BACHCHAN
The progression of roles you take strings together a portrait of an actor, but it's a completely... MERYL STREEP
Every project is a new challenge for an actor. If it's not, it's boring. STEPHANIE SIGMAN
When I'm a director, I look at myself the actor as a completely different person. It's someb... CLINT EASTWOOD
It's different when you're an actor and playing a part, but when it's just you, you feel... HELENA BONHAM CARTER
There's been a lot of role reversal going on in the band. The roles people have been playing for... STONE GOSSARD
Being an actor: that's a pretty big net. That's a big playing field. The Screen Actors' ... TIMOTHY OLYPHANT
It's just so cool when you meet people who are different than you are. That can give you a diffe... CIARA
There's no such thing as too late. There are different roles for different ages, assuming an act... AYELET ZURER That's what I love about acting, is playing different roles. I want to work for the character, a...
FRAN KRANZ
Sean's a better person when he's directing. He becomes a queen when he's an actor. And h... ROBIN WRIGHT
Acting is a job you can learn a lot in. You get to play lots of different characters with different ... KELLY MCCREARY It's upsetting that it is such a big deal. I wish it weren't an issue all the time. It's...
RANDY HARRISON
You can be, like, a totally different person on camera, and it's fun. You can take on another ch... PARIS JACKSON Character roles only indicate that they're very different from who you are as a person, and for ...
MARK HAMILL I like roles of people who can overcome things because there's strength in that and an arc - and...
OLIVIA D'ABO
Part of spiritual and emotional maturity is recognizing that it's not like you're going to t... JACK KORNFIELD Each language has its own take on the world. That's why a translation can never be absolutely ex...
KATE GRENVILLE It's different being a director. I suppose, especially if it's a story you've written an...
PADDY CONSIDINE When you're young, it's all about the society of school and being cool, but they don't u...
MANNY MONTANA What's nice about acting is that you're not just left with yourself all the time, but you ge...
EVAN RACHEL WOOD
It's like playing tennis, you play a different rally with different people. Every actor is diffe... TOM HIDDLESTON
As a jobbing actor, you can't afford to be choosy; if you're typed, you're generally wor... ROBERT ENGLUND It's been a lot of fun getting to work with Tracy Middendorf, who plays my mom. As an actor, it&...
WILLA FITZGERALD It's nice, though, getting older and being able to do different roles.
LUKE WILSON Sometimes I'm doing a big movie, or sometimes I'm doing a TV show, but as an actor, it's...
HIROYUKI SANADA I felt that 'Deep Space' was the way to do a spin off series of an existing franchise where ...
RONALD D. MOORE
If there's any message to my work, it is ultimately that it's OK to be different, that it... JOHNNY DEPP I know that I've played a lot of comedic roles. It's a visual medium. When you get one role,...
FRAN KRANZ Acting has been gentrified. It's become part of the bourgeoisie. But there was a time when it wo...
JULIAN SANDS
Design, whether it's on your body or in your home, is the same thing. It's mixing different ... BLAKE LIVELY
When you coach Russ Smith, you have a nervous breakdown on every possession. He's not from a dif... RICK PITINO When a patient does get an organ from another person, it comes from a different body. It has differe...
ANTHONY ATALA
Acting is something different to everybody. I just know that if you watch an actor or actress gettin... CAMERON DIAZ I'm an actor; I want to play roles, not a role.
ED WESTWICK All I will say is that I'm playing a lot of different roles that, to be honest, are more interes...
SOPHIE MARCEAU Every person has a different view of another person's image. That's all perception. The char...
STEVE ALFORD Every role affords me something different in the way of understanding, and that's really why you...
PHYLICIA RASHAD Robert Englund's done an amazing job over the years playing Freddy. Everybody that's a fan o...
JACKIE EARLE HALEY
One of the things you hope you've done as a playwright is create roles that can sustain differen... TRACY LETTS Women in their 40s have gone through quite a few different things, and so the roles are going to ref...
NAOMI WATTS Trump is an outsider; maybe you don't know. So he is sitting in a room: he is talking business, ...
PAUL MANAFORT My idea is just to do something different each time; the next thing I do has to be completely differ...
EDDIE MARSAN
I think that's just a natural instinct as an actor is that you want to just keep exploring human... ERIKA CHRISTENSEN When I was going into inventing, it wasn't a dream the way someone goes into nursing or dancing....
JOY MANGANO
The hardest thing as an actor is that you work really hard constantly for these roles, and you inves... ADRIANNE PALICKI
It's not like I try to be different, but every single person is unique, and every single person ... LINDSEY STIRLING That's the great thing about being an actor, you get to try out lots of things for your roles.
BRUCE BOXLEITNER
I think it's an actor's responsibility to change every time. Not only for himself and the pe... JOHNNY DEPP I don't have a specific type of role that I aspire to play or aspire to act. I really like a cha...
VANESSA LENGIES As far as the lack of hits goes, I think perhaps it's because I've played a lot of different...
JEFF BRIDGES
For so many years, I've been an actor acting in other people's movies, and in 'Unstoppab... KIRK CAMERON
God has to speak to each person in their own language, in their own idioms. Take Spanish, Chinese. Y... HUSTON SMITH The post-'Merlin' era is an exciting time to look forward to. Variety is the spice of life. ...
BRADLEY JAMES
I'd say my artistic bent definitely came from my father, who was a trial lawyer. And if you'... OMARI HARDWICK
Shakespeare is renewed each time you see it or read it. I've seen 'Midsummer Night's Dre... MICHELLE DOCKERY All through my life, I didn't really consider my eyes at all, and then I became an actress. It&#...
ALICE EVE There aren't as many roles, and I think there's a lack of openness in casting an Asian chara...
KIMIKO GLENN Typecasting is an interesting thing because, in a way, if you're good at something, you're g...
AARON TVEIT I'd love to be remembered as a character actor who brought illumination to roles in wonderful pl...
DAVID SUCHET You have to get out of your comfort zone in order to grow. And as an actor, you don't become Mer...
OCTAVIA SPENCER It's true in the beginning I started playing villains, and I think that's pretty clear, beca...
WILLEM DAFOE
You can talk about what you see from the outside; it's hard to tell me who I am when you're ... RAY LEWIS
If there's anything I'd hate as a son-in-law, it's an actor; and if there's anything... JOSEPH P. KENNEDY It's fun to get away from myself for a while when I take on these roles that have very different...
KELSEY CHOW You spend enough time on set as an actor and it's great when a director was at some point an act...
IAN SOMERHALDER
It's the same as Keith Richards. People still ask him the same questions they asked him 30 years... SCOTT WEILAND
The challenge for me as an actor is if you become a celebrity, you don't meet strangers anymore.... MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY
The fact of the matter is that an actor, if I'm playing a performance capture role and you'r... ANDY SERKIS
I wake up and play a different person every day. Playing all these different characters and trying t... ELIZA DUSHKU I've become really good at turning down the boring, pretty girl roles, the trophy wife, supermod...
REBECCA ROMIJN I like doing clay work. It's different from drawing on a page because you have something to mold...
BONNIE WRIGHT Because I've done so many different roles, I don't want to repeat myself. It's getting h...
MAGGIE CHEUNG
It's always a Catch-22 situation. They hate you if you're the same, and they hate you if you... EDDIE VAN HALEN I took the role of Rochelle in 'Everybody Hates Chris,' and that was it. I was going to play...
TICHINA ARNOLD
I've got the greatest job in the world. There's no other job in government where cause and e... MICHAEL BLOOMBERG One of these days, I'd like to put together a revue of all my music, which would probably turn i...
NATALIE COLE When you say, 'Southern,' or you speak about a southern accent, there's always that draw...
ANGIE THOMAS Actually it's a gift as an actor to cover such different parts of history. It's like time tr...
SEBASTIAN KOCH You hand the baton on, and that's why roles like 'Medea' resonate for years and years, a...
DIANA RIGG It's funny: people who meet me say, 'I thought you'd be different.' But I'm stil...
BILL ENGVALL One of the defining things about my career on camera is I like to play different characters. That ge...
DIEDRICH BADER It's so funny because the roles that I've been offered in the indie film world have been sim...
COURTNEY FORD There's a history where, when women get to a certain age in this industry, the roles become stri...
DAKOTA FANNING
If you put four different people on a podium conducting the same downbeat, you get four different so... ITZHAK PERLMAN It's a writer's or director's role to be cerebral, whereas for an actor it should be a v...
NATALIE DORMER
I think men and women are the same. Even as parents, I think we're the same. We're just cond... RACHEL CUSK
When an actor plays a scene exactly the way a director orders, it isn't acting. It's followi... JAMES DEAN I've always chosen incredibly different roles and things that are quite offbeat. That way you...
ANNA FRIEL
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