#roles

So as long as I'm a working actor, I can improve. I want to work with people that frighten me and excite me, and characters that I don't believe I'm the best person for the part but I'm still gonna try anyway. Those are my favorite roles. ↗

— Anne Hathaway

#anyway #believe #best #characters #excite

Playing good girls in the 30s was difficult, when the fad was to play bad girls. Actually I think playing bad girls is a bore; I have always had more luck with good girl roles because they require more from an actress. ↗

— Olivia De Havilland

#actually #always #bad #bad girls #because

I really want to play interesting roles, but you want to work, so it's a balancing game. ↗

— Lily James

#game #i #interesting #play #really

I was in love with this character of Ray Krebbs. I wanted the part badly. I had done several Western films in my career at that point and there wasn't much opportunity then to play Western roles on television at that time. ↗

— Steve Kanaly

#career #character #done #films #had

Well, I think certain roles are chosen for us. The moment I read Pete Campbell I thought: I can do this, this is mine. And in Money, too. The truth is I turn down a lot of projects. If a character doesn't have some kind of internal struggle, it's no good for me. ↗

— Vincent Kartheiser

#certain #character #chosen #down #good

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

— Kathleen Turner

#desire #i #most #offered #play

I don't condemn anyone for making their choices. If someone chooses those roles, fine. But not for me. When someone stops me and says, You're the reason I became an actress, that lets me know I made the right decision. ↗

— Cicely Tyson

#anyone #became #choices #chooses #condemn

In the contract days, the big studios groomed us to play particular roles and we would stay with the image they gave us and insisted on. ↗

— Robert Wagner

#big studios #contract #days #gave #groomed

Having done something like The Thorn Birds gives you enormous longevity. You can keep picking and choosing the roles for a bit longer. ↗

— Rachel Ward

#bit #choosing #done #enormous #gives

I wanted to build up a little nest egg and go back to L.A. and choose roles that I wanted to do instead of roles that I had to do to pay the bills. ↗

— Estella Warren

#bills #build #choose #egg #go