Cush Jumbo Quotes

I think you get the parts that people are comfortable with seeing you play.

I tend to play nurses and waitresses and policewomen.

I love playing a smart person and not that blonde deadpan.

Any role that is well-written, exciting and something that I am comfortable with interests me whether it's comic or tragic. It could be in a film, play or TV.

In theatre, I get comedy or nice lead roles. I don't understand a grey or negative role.

I think that acting involves doing your job so well that you are able to help the viewer identify with the character.

Theatre demands different muscles and different aspects of one's personality.

As an actor, there are so many different people to hide behind.

Basically, you're selling a world as an actor, right? I mean it's like any sales person: if you believe in your product, you know your product, you sell it a lot better.

I need to react to a script, to feel strongly about it in some way. And I need it to be a complex character for sure. And also, I think a lot about what kind of audience there is for the film, what they're looking for and ways to connect with them in the playing of a character.

In theater, there's a lot of work to do to build the characters. It's a great experience.

I was a drama-class nerd. I did whatever school production we put on.

The art of acting is to pitch good. You do the pitching and hope that the other person catches the ball and does some good pitching back to you.

I loved doing all those costume dramas. I didn't think, 'Ooh I've got to avoid being typecast' - you can't ever be dictated to by what other people think. I just do things because I fancy the parts and the directors.

In fact, I'll be taking a lot of Cathy Gale with me. I expect that was why I was chosen for the part.

A lot of film stars are just playing themselves in different frocks.

I am really not of the school of naturalism. I like style, and you can use more style in theater than in film roles. I love to sink my teeth into a part.

My approach to 'Eastenders' is the same as my approach to film and the same approach to theatre. Whatever I do, I use the same skills and tools.

Acting is a strange job because your control is very limited.

I am a huge theatre geek.

The trouble with talking about acting is that it's like sex. It's enormously fun to do but just dreadfully embarrassing when you have to talk about it.

If you can sell that you're the King of Scotland, or Henry V on a tiny stage in a studio theater somewhere, then you can probably sell that you're a starship captain or a time traveler.

There is so much freedom I enjoy in theatre. In films, the roles are limited.

I don't pick my roles based on what clothes I have to wear. I pick roles because of the character I have to portray, and the public have enjoyed seeing me in those roles.

I have a background in theater. At the time I read 'The Loved Ones' script, I was playing Catherine the Great of Russia onstage. Straight after that, I played Stella in 'A Streetcar Named Desire' and Isabella in 'Measure for Measure.'