Franklin Cover Quotes

I'm an actor. I'm hired to play whatever it is they want me to play - if I'm lucky enough to be cast for the part - which seems to take a lot of luck these days.

I'm an actor. It's my job.

I'd like to act in a film without special effects.

I'd love to do a drama.

I'm an actor.

We had this neighbor who was an actor, and he was going to an audition one day, driving by our house, and he asked if I wanted to tag along. He was reading for the part of the father, and they were reading for the part of the son the same day, and he told me to sneak in there and make it look like I knew what I was doing.

When I auditioned for Tim Robbins for 'Cradle Will Rock,' the young girl who read with me was very young, and I said to Tim, 'I'm sorry, but I don't have enough imagination to pretend this girl is my husband!' And he said, 'Well, I'll read it with you.' Which was very nice; he was the director. And I ended up getting the part.

Just to have the opportunity to play an American in America is a dream come true for me.

If I were to be cast as Cyrano or a Connecticut prep-school teacher or a gay boutique owner, it would only happen if some director I had worked with in the past said, 'Why don't we give Rispoli a shot at it?'

I don't think I auditioned for 'Ghostbusters II'.

I'd like to be in a play with Mark Rylance.

I never look at the size of the film when I'm looking for a part.

I think I was first choice for the part. I don't know - that's what they always tell you anyway. I didn't have to do any audition for the part. Sam saw me in Dinner and the whole thing slipped into place.

I'm an actor who appreciates direction.

I would never be in a film just for the sake of being in a film, so I am waiting for the right role to come along.

It's my dream to play Ratna Pathak Shah's daughter in a film.

I don't think I can play Mr. Bachchan.

I have to say that as an actor, I really look for the role. I'm not really looking to see if it's for television or film, because there are highly talented people in both mediums.

Everybody reads for me. I was never weird about that. I never minded coming in and reading. They should know if I'm the right person, and I should know if I want to do a movie.

I played in a movie called Ring of Fear with Clyde Beatty and Pat O'Brien.

I'm not interested in going after a part. I think if someone wants me for a part and approaches me then I'll take it on a case-by-case basis and see what that part is.

It was never my goal to be an actor.

In this country, you have movie actors and theatre actors and television actors.

I never wondered whether I should be a stage actress or a movie actress.

I'd like to do more acting.