#roles

With big, emotional roles it's very easy, especially if you've grown up in the American school of acting, to exploit your own pain. You have to be careful about that, because 9 times out of 10, your pain is not appropriate to the character. ↗

— Laura Linney

#acting #american #appropriate #be careful #because

I remember that it was never that difficult for me to get a director to look up and pay attention to me. Mind you, I don't know if that's necessarily charm. But I've played roles where my character has to be charming and I've found it quite easy to do. I think some of it is in my bones, but some of it is more deliberate. ↗

— James McAvoy

#bones #character #charm #charming #deliberate

After I got to Hollywood, I resented that I didn't get a crack at more dramatic roles because I photographed so beautifully. ↗

— Maureen O'Hara

#beautifully #because #crack #dramatic #dramatic roles

We did many of our own stunts. We had our hands full. In fact, the roles were physically demanding. ↗

— Mary-Kate Olsen

#did #fact #full #had #hands

I'm attracted to roles that are unpredictable, and if I can get my hands on something like that, I'm thrilled. I like performances where you don't know what's coming, moment to moment. ↗

— Timothy Olyphant

#coming #get #hands #i #i can

We have a problem now with parents stealing their kids' CDs, so the roles have been reversed. ↗

— Jerry Only

#cds #kids #now #parents #problem

I have never been interested in specific roles. ↗

— Estelle Parsons

#i #interested #never #roles #specific

What happens is things come to you - director, script - and if you respond to it, it's because it's tapping into some part of what's inside you, and different roles tap into different parts. ↗

— Sean Penn

#come #different #different parts #different roles #director

I've been really fortunate to be able to do different kinds of films in different scales, different genres, different kinds of roles, and that is important to me. ↗

— Keanu Reeves

#been #different #different genres #different kinds #films

Certain roles are more challenging than others, but I haven't come across one yet that I can't tackle. ↗

— Wesley Snipes

#certain #challenging #come #haven #i