Gemma Jones Quotes

I am lucky to get different roles.

I feel fortunate that I'm able to play diverse roles. I don't think everybody in Hollywood gets the opportunity to do that.

I don't turn my nose up at anything. If it's a great part, it's a great part. I'd love to do a box-office hit.

I am fortunate that I get sent scripts and get to meet people I would never have met had I not done 'Harry Potter.' But I feel I had to come out of that show and prove that I am not a one trick pony and can do other stuff.

I've been fortunate enough in my career that I haven't been typecast at all.

I've always basically done everything that's been offered to me. I'm one of the few actors who enjoy working a lot.

I have just been lucky to get challenging characters every time.

I will try to bring variety in my roles.

I'm a character actor. I have to find work in good movies where I can make something of my role. I'm a very lucky guy to be in that kind of position. It's like a kid who dreams of becoming a baseball player and then he gets to play for the Yankees.

I'm lucky that I get to play a wide variety of parts.

For me, I've been really, really lucky because I have been able to play a lot of different parts.

The good thing about this Casino Royale thing, that I hope and pray, is that I'll have more opportunities. That roles will come up to me rather than going to the auditions. But I still have a lot of things to prove. I haven't, I think, shown all my talent.

It's a blessing to be given a variety of roles to what I call an iconic action actor like myself.

It's about... my only strategy I've ever had in my career is to do as many different types of roles as possible, as many different types of genres. It keeps the fire in my belly.

That's the ideal. Not to get stuck in a rut playing the same role.

It's up to the actor to make sure they don't get typecast.

One of the fun things as an actor is to really spread your wings as wide as possible and do a variety of roles. I've been really lucky in that sense, I think.

I've been really fortunate in the fact that I've gotten a chance to do a real wide range of all different kinds of characters.

I'm always looking to do different roles and play around a little bit. That's always the fun part of my job.

I like to do all things. I've been fortunate enough to be able to do a bunch of them at the same time.

The post-'Merlin' era is an exciting time to look forward to. Variety is the spice of life. That's the fantastic thing about acting - all the different challenges it can provide you with. To limit yourself just to one would be foolish; therefore, I'm looking forward to different things that come my way.

I keep myself content by doing lots of different stuff and make sure that my next role is completely different to the last. I just enjoy the versatility of it, the challenge of doing lots of different things. It keeps the job interesting.

Most child actors were lucky enough to get the part in the first place.

I'm really very lucky. I get to do an awful lot. I've been able to make an incredibly wide range of movies and work with an incredible array of people.

I do everything I can to have a diverse career because I just want to have options. I know that I can do Hamlet or I can do Stanley Kowalski, you know.