Acting Quote by Carrie Preston

I was always asked to play roles where I was the contrasting or multicultural character. Sometimes that worked for me - often it didn't.

— Katy Jurado

The type of acting that I'm interested in, that I aspire to, is where I try and drag a lot of myself into whatever…

— Tobias Menzies

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

— Luke Treadaway

As an ambiguously non-white actor, I've been able to play light-skinned African American guys, Latinos, and I don't think that I've ever had to…

— Daniel Sunjata

You know, a lot of those angry sort of Southern man characters that I've been doing are based on different people I might've had…

— Danny McBride

I really fought to make my character not a stereotype. I play a soap star with dyed blonde hair.

— Sadie Frost

I have friends, African-American actors, who've had more of a struggle; hopefully they're starting to see some air and light now. But in my…

— Forest Whitaker

I'm not one of those people who's against all-black productions of Tennessee Williams plays, but there are lot more complex and natural ways to…

— Hilton Als

It's important for me to see as many colors in the character as possible.

— Kelly Lynch

It's not enough to be diverse in your casting. You have to service those characters; you have to make them fully well rounded because…

— Candice Patton

I tend to play characters that arent supposed to black or written black.

— Megalyn Echikunwoke

There are actors who do various different shades of a similar character, which is fine. But I prefer the Cillian Murphy school of doing…

— Robert Sheehan