Rachel Ward Quotes

I think you have to be really lucky to pick the sort of roles you want to do.

As an actor, of course, you want to be in something that's successful.

In this industry, very few actors can control their career.

I think that the more success you have as an actor, I think, the greatest advantage of being successful as an actor or being in this business is that you have the chance to pick and choose, or you have people coming to you with a much more different variety of roles.

I do turn down things that I feel aren't right for me, like when it's some kind of adolescent thing that might typecast me, but I'm not worried about it.

I turned my hair dark and have received much better parts ever since.

I want to have a long career.

I had been on four other series that never lasted more than a year and a half. I'd done fine, so you start to wonder, 'Will I ever be one of those lucky actors who get to be part of something lasting?'

My first five or six years in L.A., I was just trying to get two cents together to stay here. Playing Jason Stackhouse on 'True Blood' put me in a position, financially, to make decisions based on creativity, to choose roles based on whether I connected with them. I love the Jason Stackhouse character... But I also love stepping out of his shoes.

It's funny - sometimes people think we, as actors, have this wide range of choices of the roles we're doing, and in a lot of ways, when you're a younger actor, or just if you want to make a living in the business, you take your opportunities where they come.

I wouldn't say that I haven't got my fair share of good roles. This industry has been very kind to me.

That's my only plan: to keep doing good roles and win appreciation.

I have been offered roles in other things, so it's just about making sure I make my decisions wisely because I don't really want to be typecast.

I feel that God has been amazingly kind to me. How many actors get to stay for 30 years and play the kind of roles that I have done?

There are people who do not get to act after two films. I have been in the industry for over two decades.

There are some jobs that you go for because achieving them would take your career in a direction that you would like it to go, but mostly, I want to play the roles and have had the great good fortune and opportunities to play some fantastic roles and been very, very fortunate.

Perhaps I have managed some sort of longevity because I haven't won the lead roles.

I want to do more Tollywood projects but I don't go around asking for roles.

There are very few actors in L.A. who can call their own shots. If you're able to work on something that you actually like working on, you're a very lucky person, and if you're able to keep it going, you're very fortunate.

I'm not running about playing romantic leads. I don't know if that's a good or a bad thing, but it's the way it's sort of working out.

I hate talking about class, but the truth is as an actor you're only going to be doing some really great work if you can afford to be out of work and take the good stuff. If you can't, you're going to be treading quite a different path.

I feel like every actor charts a different course in their respective career in the industry. Everyone has an individual journey. So, you can't compare one to another.

Before 'Holby,' I'd always avoided long-term roles.

A newcomer needs to be careful as to what kind of role they choose. If you choose something different, you will end up getting typecast. That's why I chose to play a character my age, to keep my options open for the future.

I'm not one to pat myself on my back, but I have had a career for 20 years, and if people are interested in how I did it or if I can give any advice, then that's lovely.