Charlotte Rampling Quotes

What actually happened with 'Miracle' was that someone saw me in 'Jurassic Park' and said, 'We want someone with a white beard - how about him?' I've got a round face, white hair, a white beard. I can wear half-moon glasses and waddle a little, cope with a cane, raise my hat.

I try to explain to people that you get the roles that are right when they're right. If you have a nerd character but you're kind of a cool guy, you're probably not going to get the nerd part. The nerd is going to get the nerd part. You know, someone like me.

For most of my career, I've played roles that were written for other actresses.

I don't exactly set out to only play creepy characters, it's just that a lot of those roles come my way.

I read a script and I know immediately whether that role is for me or not.

Yeah, I do feel badly sometimes, not for whose coming up and getting roles I'm not right for anymore but the people I compete with, who range from Uma Thurman on up.

I think I was first choice for the part. I don't know - that's what they always tell you anyway. I didn't have to do any audition for the part. Sam saw me in Dinner and the whole thing slipped into place.

I would love to act in films if people think I am right for a particular role.

It has happened with me that I get a role of a cop for a film. Few directors typecast you if you do that particular role well. But, it is the actor who has to decide whether he fits in that role or not.

Be it TV, films, or stage, I love substantial roles. The length of the character doesn't matter, but if the character is well thought, then I have to grab it.

You have to carry so many archetypes as an actor, especially as a blonde-haired, blue-eyed one.

I always used to say, as a director, that I could make anybody good in a movie if you found the right part. It all comes down to casting.

My first instinct was to cast as close to the short story as possible, but then I realized that I needed actors who could go for it and that they had to function well as a couple in a love story.

I have been reading scripts, going to auditions and looking for the right opportunities.

I don't get called very often to play innocents.

I have no idea what makes a director believe in me that I can sell these kind of roles.

I actually got a play from auditioning for something in 'Back Stage' magazine.

When I read for 'Girls,' I was like, 'The script says 'Handsome Carpenter,' so someone else is going to get the part. They'll have someone handsome, not me.'

No one ever let me be a bad guy once I started working more frequently after I got out of college and started pursuing acting. I just got all of the good-guy roles because if I walk in the room, not a lot of people believe me as a bad guy.

I'm hoping I can evade a type and go for roles based on what I consider plausible and what I consider good.

It's also a question of finding good material and interesting roles. I'm not the only actress out there, and good parts just don't fall into your lap that easily. But I like most of the films I've made recently and so I'm pretty positive about the future.

Not one role that I've played has been written specifically for me.

I think you can always find interesting, complex and fascinating characters to play in different kinds of movies. It's in your hands.

There's always a sense of newness with acting, because every role, you come to every role fresh.

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