Anne-Marie Duff Quotes

I don't think you can discriminate against budgets, you know? I'm an actor, I guess, so I'm just trying to play as many characters as I can. If there's a character I think I can play, and they're going to let me do it, I'll do it whether it's $10 or $1 million or more.

I had been asked to start going out for roles here and there throughout my career, but I know that acting is a hard thing; it takes a lot of work, and I was traveling. I didn't have the time to really focus on it, so I really waited for the right project to come along.

In the States, you have a little bit of freedom to audition for different kinds of roles.

I think early in my career, I didn't choose films that were crappy films, necessarily, but I didn't go out and campaign for smaller, better roles.

I think there's a big misconception out there about actors and the choices they have.

After 'Mad Men,' I got offered various types of uptight Englishmen, which I wasn't interested in doing. I didn't want to repeat myself.

I wasn't turning down film roles, let's put it that way. I was never really on that radar.

I took parts that either I was offered or felt I could do a good job with.

I want to do more Tollywood projects but I don't go around asking for roles.

I have been offered roles in other things, so it's just about making sure I make my decisions wisely because I don't really want to be typecast.

Though sometimes you hit, sometimes you don't get the kind of roles you should get, but sometimes you get the role.

As actors, you like to think about the luxury of having choices in your career, but for the most part you kind of take whatever comes your way and hope that you carved out something that you're proud of in the end.

TV kind of worked out naturally for me. I was fortunate to do a show like 'Breaking Bad' and then go straight into something like 'Friday Night Lights.' It's not something I focus on, but when they're great projects, I can't pass them up.

To get asked to do stuff like 'United States Of Tara' and 'Caprica' is terrific. I can't complain.

I've just been lucky. I'd like to have more choices, and I'd like to have a leading part.

I think when you're a bigger star you get many good scripts sent to you, and you have to choose which one you're going to gravitate toward, but I just try to gravitate toward the best-written one that's been thrown my way after a lot of girls have passed on it.

First of all, I choose the great roles, and if none of these come, I choose the mediocre ones, and if they don't come, I choose the ones that pay the rent.

I remember when I first came to Los Angeles being staggered by the range of roles open to me. These were leading parts in shiny new projects, and what always excited me was knowing there was a possibility that I could actually get these parts. I always had the impression that I had a chance.

Good roles are hard to come by, and whether they're a few lines or a lead, you snap 'em up when they come along.

I've said maybe too many times that I'd rather be typecast than not cast at all.

After doing 'Doctor Who,' I'm open-minded to doing more acting. Part of the reason you do a show like this is because it creates other opportunities you haven't had before.

You know what I did? I turned down an offer to do 'Enemy of the People' with Steve McQueen. It doesn't matter that the film was never really released. A movie like that, successful or not, adds to your credits. It leads to other roles.

I have no illusions of being the big box office draw. But I would like to have some choices.

But actors at a certain point take the best of what's available to them.

I get better roles in television. I'm not going to do a lesser role just to be in a feature film.