I like to play roles different from myself so I can hide…

I was literally so different that I could not hide or be shy.

— Josie Totah

I have the appetite to do different roles that have different backdrops. I'd like to show that there's more to people sitting in cars…

— Romany Malco

I've been fortunate to play many different types of characters thus far. However, I really enjoy playing roles that are different than who I…

— Gina Holden

It's about pursuing it rather than waiting to see what comes along. That's partly because I found myself getting typecast, as everyone does unless…

— Christian Bale

I definitely play roles that are close to my persona. I was dying to be an actor, my whole life. I just always wanted…

— Drea de Matteo

I do more of ensemble casting, roles that are different. In one film I'm playing a villain, in the other I'm playing a son.

— Jisshu Sengupta

It is not the team that creates the comfort zone. I thinks it's the kind of films. You keep doing same kind of films…

— Nushrat Bharucha

It's definitely been a conscious decision to seek out roles that are different, in any way, from anything that I've done, just to prove…

— Malin Akerman

Acting is all about a kind of self-expression. When you take on different roles and become different characters, you have to draw upon your…

— Taylor Momsen

There's different girls in my life that play different roles and I see at different times, but collectively they kind of make up the…

— Drake

Well you know, I think a lot of us in marriage know that you play different roles at different times. And Mitt can get…

— Ann Romney

A lot of straight actors are actively searching for gay roles because it is something different to do.

— Rupert Everett

Over a spell of about three years, I played a series of roles that were, for me, all very different, but most of them…

— Kevin Spacey

It was great to play an ex-marine cockney thug. All my roles are as different as the colours of the rainbow.

— Luke Treadaway

“We are all actors playing different roles in different phases of life. But we must try to play each role to perfection!”

— Avijeet Das