Play Roles Quotes

I'm an actor; I want to play roles, not a role.

— Ed Westwick

I have no desire to play most of the roles being offered

— Kathleen Turner

I play roles that frighten me as an actor.

— Atul Kulkarni

I play roles now that suit my age.

— Sridevi

I play roles, but when I'm off stage, I always try to be myself.

— Michael Ball

You don't want to play the same roles or do the same genre.

— Luke Evans

Every actor wants to be everybody - play all the roles.

— Kyle Chandler

I would be happy to play any roles.

— Madeline Zima

I'm always being asked to play roles or characters that I don't really resemble.

— John Lithgow

I don't play roles, I play characters. There is a vast difference between the two.

— Kay Kay Menon

I like to play roles different from myself so I can hide behind them.

— Charlotte Gainsbourg

As an actor, the joy lies in being able to play roles that you are not. If I get a chance to…

— Shefali Shah

I have been really lucky to play roles younger than myself for most of my career.

— Miranda Otto

Quite often I play roles that require quite a degree of emotional exposure, and they can be very difficult to do.

— Ian McLeod

Till the last breath of mine I can't really dig away Mahadev' from me. But as an actor I have to play…

— Mohit Raina

For an actor to grow, she needs to play roles that put her out of her comfort zone.

— Raashi Khanna

I was always asked to play roles where I was the contrasting or multicultural character. Sometimes that worked for me - often…

— Katy Jurado

I don't play roles everybody likes. I'd rather have a career I'm proud of. Like everyone else, I need to eat. But…

— Amanda Plummer

If you ever want to study acting you should be around an enlightened person for a while, because all they do is…

— Frederick Lenz

As an actor, I look to play roles that challenge me and this did that. I asked to speak to [the victim's…

— Mark Harmon

Acting is sort of an extension of childhood. You get to play all of these roles and have so much fun. Playing…

— Jon Hamm

I want to play roles where my absence should be felt. It may not necessarily be a lead role, but my character…

— Hiten Tejwani

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

— Drea de Matteo

The only thing I wouldn't like to do is to play roles as a musician. I'm not sure that I would be…

— Larry Mullen, Jr

There are some jobs that you go for because achieving them would take your career in a direction that you would like…

— Essie Davis

As a single mom you have to play the roles of both a mother as well as a father. This is the…

— Anonymous

I wanted to play roles which offered new ways of viewing black women and black people in general- and I have done…

— Naomie Harris

I feel like I'll be defined more so by ... when I get a chance to play roles where I'm the father/husband.…

— Michael Jai White

I have finished school and so it's becoming a real job, and as an actor, you cannot always just play roles. To…

— Louis Hofmann

I have wanted to act since I was three and that is what I hunger for. I want to play roles that…

— Natascha Mcelhone

Whatever the best scripts are and you just want to play roles that you can really sink your teeth into. That's always…

— Stanley Tucci

Being an older person now, I'm finding that people are calling me to play various things. Variations on the theme of mother,…

— Barbara Crampton

I was trained to be an actor, not a star. I was trained to play roles, not to deal with fame and…

— Gene Hackman

I am happy being able to play roles with people my age because once you do something really mature there is no…

— Lindsay Lohan

I would have liked Sir Laurence Olivier to ask me to go to the Old Vic and let me play all the…

— Anne Reid

Of course men play roles, but women play roles too, blanker ones. They have, in the play of life, fewer good lines.

— Iris Murdoch

I want to play roles of substance, where I have something to contribute, where I can help push forward a thought.

— Jaya Prada

What I want to do is play roles as a black man, instead of playing black man's roles. You know?

— Jim Brown

I've always made a point to play roles that aren't specified by their ethnicity.

— Jessica Henwick

Sometimes in film and television, I don't have the opportunity to play roles that really stretch and challenge me.

— Marcia Gay Harden