I’m half Jewish, but no one believes me because my looks lean a little WASP-y… It’s sometimes hard for me to get the roles I’m drawn to.

But no, I don’t think I’m particularly drawn to the period roles or the medieval roles.

All the world’s a stage,And all the men and women merely players;They have their exits and their entrances,And one man in his time plays many parts,His acts being seven ages. At first, the infant,Mewling and...

I don’t think I do that much to prepare for roles in general.

I don’t like when actors go around and talk a ton about how they approach their roles, because it’s a little like pulling the curtain back on Oz, for me.

Over the centuries, religion has become institutionalized, and in the process encrusted with elaborate hierarchies, top-heavy bureaucracies, highly specialized roles and reflexive routines.

My basic profession is as an actor, and I have learnt much about life through working as an actor. Working as an actor is really a spiritual profession, since it means to create life on...

A lamp cannot play the role of the Sun and the Sun cannot play the role of a lamp.

Now it is easy to perceive that the moral part of love is a factitious sentiment, engendered by society, and cried up by the women with great care and address in order to establish their...

I don’t know what the future holds. I just try to do roles that I haven’t done before.

One of the pleasant things about small town life is that everyone, whether rich or poor, liked or disliked, has some kind of a role and place in the community. I never felt that living...

My roles in the ’80s were, like, gender dysphoric. I wasn’t pretty, I wasn’t this, I wasn’t that. And I am kind of butchy, you know. That’s just my thing.

I’m a warrior when it comes to pursuing roles.

The interesting roles have only come since I got into my 30s. But I didn’t know that was going to happen.

What indeed is the half-life of a mortal consciousness? What is the half-life of a memory of that mortal consciousness? Of course, this is purely an academic question and of no immediate concern to those...

The last 10 years I have had to bulk up for roles and I’m naturally skinny, so I have eaten and killed so many chickens! I wouldn’t even want to count. I need to balance...

Like some homeopathic cure, our very sense of imprisonment can be a step toward liberation. We need not rebel against our temporally determined roles. Merely to recognize them is to limit their power over us....

Butcher, baker, candlestick maker – many are unaware of the true role they play in Reality.

So from then on, he looked at all his choices and said, What would a good person do, and then did it. But he has now learned something very important about human nature. If you...

However, I’m at a very comfortable place in my career and celebrity, in that I don’t have to audition as extensively as I used to for roles but yet I’m not immediately recognizable.

If I only get to play Malaysian roles, there wouldn’t be very many roles for me to play.

No one’s calling me for lawyer roles. I still have a lot to do to prove myself.

A lot of roles for people with disabilities are quite patronising. It’s a real pity when they are just used to give dull PC kudos to a drama, or when they’re wheeled on in a...

Every role affords me something different in the way of understanding, and that’s really why you take these roles, not to show that thing that people talk about of showing what you can do –...

I’ve never thought of myself as a classic leading man. I’m a character actor who happens to play leading roles. Come on, look at me. I’m really Desperate Dan.

I don’t think the relationship between novels and realities are one to one. Of course novels play different roles. It’s essentially just a long narrative form. What you use that long narrative form for can...

My roles are in some way like children to me. You don’t ever really want to scrape one off your shoe.

I find it hard to do small roles sometimes.

Wife, to him, was someone who stood for stability, forcoming home, for dealing with all the shit he wasn’t able to deal with. For providing a real life and not this insanity.

Sometimes it gets a little uncomfortable to not do everything. That was my modus operandi for many years, but I just feel like I want to do challenging roles.

I look for struggle in the roles I choose – struggle and perseverance.

One of the most important roles of our journalists is to be watchdogs.

Not a lot of people make that transition from child actor to bigger, better roles.

I think that there’s not much point to being an actor if you’re not enjoying it, so I try to be picky about roles I do like to go out for.

I don’t want to play only Latin women. I want to have roles in English.

I like to do new things, so I always take on roles that I feel will keep me on my toes. I never want to pigeon myself, so I always like to surprise myself. I...

I sometimes want to do totally different roles. I don’t always want to play ‘wholesome.’

Are we not all actors playing parts in another person’s play?

I don’t want to play everything. So I’ll seek out roles that I’ll say, ‘This is edgy. This is fun. This is wicked. This suits me.’

I got into acting for the different scenarios and roles and meeting different people.

I’ve done a handful of great roles.

I want to have roles in English.

I love roles where I have to transform myself.

Darling, you know and I know that everything is straight between us at last beyond the furthest abstract definition in metaphysical terms or any terms you want to specify or sweetly impose or harken back.

I don’t think of it at the moment, but the roles that interest me are those of young people.

Obviously, I play a villain in ‘Downton Abbey’. As an actor, you want to get a variety of roles, so to be offered the part of Joe, it was perfect.

After doing so many different roles, if you don’t stretch yourself, there’s no excitement left.

I want to spark ideas and conversations and inspire people to take active roles in their communities, relationships and their well-being.

I always think it’s hard for any young actor to make that transition to more grown-up roles. Because you don’t want to alienate your audience who has been supportive of you for so many years,...

In my experience, the content strategist is a rare breed who’s often willing and able to embrace whatever role is necessary to deliver on the promise of useful, useable content.