Quotes About Playing Different Roles

#1. We were using Brooke as an actress; she was playing different roles: a liberated woman, a teenager, a vamp.

Calvin Klein

#2. I think being an actor in general is acknowledging that we are constantly playing different roles, that we have all these different parts of ourselves and instead of pretending that you are just one thing, as an actor you get to admit that you've got all this stuff going on.

David Hyde Pierce

#3. That's what I love about acting, is playing different roles. I want to work for the character, and not make it work for me.

Fran Kranz

#4. I've been doing this since I was 10 years old, inhabiting different people and playing different roles.

Don Cheadle

#5. I think I was probably able to flip characters in my head as if I was playing different roles in order to write the different people because you kind of have to be one person, and inhabit him and write from his voice and be her and write her voice. So I think that helped.

Angelina Jolie

#6. Poets do not go mad; but chess-players do. Mathematicians go mad, and cashiers; but creative artists very seldom. I am not, as will be seen, in any sense attacking logic: I only say that this danger does lie in logic, not in imagination.

G.K. Chesterton

#7. And though there was something pathetic about it - taking comfort in her left-behind things like a puppy snuggled in an old coat ...

Donna Tartt

#8. It is necessary to point out that we live in times in which extremity is simply the last remaining form of sanity in an increasingly mad world.

Chilton Williamson

#9. Playing the president is interesting because, unlike a lot of different roles, people pay so close attention to who the president is, all of them, everybody's got an opinion about the president.

Bill Pullman

#10. By each book which i Have written... I play different roles...
...

One I was playing the role of god!

Deyth Banger

#11. My goal is to just keep playing roles that are different from the roles I've played before.

Alicia Witt

#12. If there's a role you're playing and there's a great deal of material to explore because the person was real then it's a completely different preparation time and message to playing someone fictional.

Emma Thompson

#13. I like playing the contrasting roles. It what inspires me to act. If I look back on my career I am happy that I have gotten to play a wide variety of different roles, from Mike Dexter, to Van Ray in Fast Lane, to Dr. Cullen to Coop.

Peter Facinelli

#14. Just in the nick of time they realized that it was their own habitat they were wrecking
that they weren't merely visitors.

Kurt Vonnegut

#15. I think audiences are a lot more intelligent than what we give them credit for and understand that an actor is playing a role and that doesn't mean he can't play different types of roles.

Cillian Murphy

#16. You can't lose yourself if you've never even found yourself.

Micalea Smeltzer

#17. There's been a lot of role reversal going on in the band. The roles people have been playing for a long time will always be there, but everybody's willing to try on different outfits.

Stone Gossard

#18. When I have to play the same role every day, I have the flexibility to play the character in so many different ways. It's almost like playing five different roles.

Simon Baker

#19. How is it that I could run into a gunfight against overwhelming odds and put myself between bullets and civilians, but I couldn't scrape together enough courage to speak to the one person who mattered the most to me?

Ilona Andrews

#20. I feel that the task of criticizing my poetry is best left to others (i.e. critics) and would much rather have it take place after I am dead. If at all.

Margaret Atwood

#21. All I will say is that I'm playing a lot of different roles that, to be honest, are more interesting and demanding than any I've played before.

Sophie Marceau

#22. Well oddly enough, I liken the years at MGM, and I was there for about eight years, to doing stock, what we used to call repertory or stock, playing a whole bunch of different roles.

Angela Lansbury

#23. I just love the whole art form of acting, of being in front of a camera and playing different things. Not that I would ever say I'm the greatest actor in the world, but I am capable of playing different kinds of roles that emotionally I could get into.

Andrew Dice Clay

#24. It may seem that we have multiple realities - because we're capable of playing many different roles in our life.

Art Hochberg

#25. I like playing an array of different roles. From the fun, comedic roles to the serious roles. It's always fun to play the role that either closely represents your own personality or the role that is completely opposite of yourself.

Manika