Olivia Colman Quotes

I don't mind being identified as any character as long as I'm doing a good job as an actor. I have done all kinds of roles - from an editor, judge, police officer, murderer to a corrupt businessman.

I had fun doing both types of roles. Both are good. One day you laugh, and the next day you cry. That's how it is.

I love playing different characters all the time, so I'm concentrating on doing other stuff.

I'm interested in playing all kinds of parts.

As an actor, you want as much variety as you can muster up. Otherwise you just keep playing the same chord over and over again.

I enjoy doing everything, comedy and drama. I just look for the characters really and what they offer.

Like any actor, I want to be able to have a long career and show different characters and a range.

As an actor you get to play different roles and genres. I feel that it pleases and satisfies me to do different genres as it can get repetitive.

I love going back and forth from drama to comedy. I love switching it around and showing people that I can do both.

It was really fun being in Tara's trailer, working on my lines. Tara is such an amazing actress. She's so good at what she does. I learned a lot from watching her.

I'm always looking, as an actor, for activities. I think it's far more interesting to watch what people do than what they say. You always want to watch behavior, because the dialogue as written by our illustrious leaders is great. Eminently playable.

As actors, we're always asked to portray and react to these extreme circumstances, otherwise it's not interesting. They are agonizing things to think about.

I was offered a lot of supporting crazy parts in comedies because that's all I had done.

Obviously, I play a villain in 'Downton Abbey'. As an actor, you want to get a variety of roles, so to be offered the part of Joe, it was perfect.

The process changes slightly from role to role. Obviously, there are different things you're called on to do. You're not digging deep for Basher Tarr like I was for Paul Rusesabagina, but at the end of the day it's still all make-believe and you still are trying as realistically as you can to depict these characters.

I want to play many different characters.

Nick Lea is a great actor, and doing scenes with him was always awesome.

As for acting, I took drama lessons when I was in high school.

I want to play a variety of different characters in different genres of film.

It's been a lot of fun getting to work with Tracy Middendorf, who plays my mom. As an actor, it's always fun to have different parents and to create different familial dynamics than you have in your real life.

They did cast me as an ingenue once, and the novelty was nice. But I said, 'There is nothing here to play!' I really like getting into the meat of a role.

I'm still fighting really hard to get any role I get. If it's comedy, I go for the laughs. And if it's drama, I try to tell the truth, and try to play the real stakes of whatever scenario the character's in.

I've been on projects before where there's no rehearsal, and you walk in on set and that's literally the first time you've ever played the character, and then I've had times where there's been three weeks of rehearsal. I like both.

I had studied theater for three years in London when someone suggested me for the role.

Good acting is consistency of performance.