June Allyson Quotes

For me, hour-long drama was always the thing I felt the most comfortable doing, and I've played so many dramatic roles in the theater.

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 loved my role in 'Learning to Drive.' It was so different.

It's not good just to have life experience of film-making and that's all. It's hard to play a real person when you've been in jets and town cars for three years.

As an actor, secrets and obstacles fuel the character.

I think people will be curious to see what I can do as a dramatic actor.

What's interesting about playing Maura is that I get to use more of Jeffrey that I've ever used in any role, and I think that's the remarkable part about it and truly the most surprising part about doing this role.

I love playing complex characters.

I wanted to get the opportunity to do what actresses do: play the inside of a person.

Your job as an actor is to piece together whatever you've learned in your training, or whatever you have experienced in your life, to piece together a person.

I just did what the script demanded from me in 'Uyir.' I felt it was indeed a challenging role for me.

I try to choose characters that are very different; I think I have succeeded in that. A big role or a small one does not bother me at all. What matters is that I should have a rapport with the director.

I've played heavy characters in my first two films.

I was trained as a dramatic actor. I'm really excited to do some more dramatic stuff.

As an actor, you most often play relatively average parts, so to get to play extreme versions of anything, those are the most exciting parts.

A big fear of working with an actor that's never been a lead in a film before is that you're going to have to work really hard to pull a performance out of her.

I've had some marvelous parts, but I'm also asked to play characters who are kind of superficial people.

As an actor, you try to bring as much of yourself to a part to try and create a feeling of authenticity and emotional truth and resonance.

I think the buzz of acting is playing people different to you, and for me, that means traversing all genres.

I love an acting challenge, and I love getting to sit down with my script and do all my drama work.

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.

I've always been interested in character-driven pieces, and my approach to directing is through acting.

So I regard my part in Genevieve as a real challenge.

I like comedy a lot, and dramatics show how I can really act. Because a lot of people can do comedy - I'm not saying it's easy, but dramatics are very hard.

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