Role-choice Quotes

I'd love to say that every move I make is completely calculated and I'm sitting on a pile of scripts, sifting through them for the perfect role, but the fact is that there are a lot of talented people out there and there's a lot of competition in our business.

I don't want to be pretentious about, "yes, I need to move in to the more dramatic roles and express myself and prove to everyone that I'm capable of doing it," it really isn't that, I think that's a bad reason to choose roles. It's more like, who would I be working with and would they be fun to do and entertaining to watch, is it an interesting story or character.

I'm basically an actress, not a comedienne, and if something comes along that appeals to me, I'll do it.

I do my work to the best of my capacity. I don't pick a role looking at its length. I take up a film because I would like to see it.

Every movie I've done, it's always the same criteria: finding a great story, and finding a great part to play.

People say, 'Well, whose career do you follow? Where do you see your career going? What movie do you want to do next?' And I can't tell you what type of movie I would go and do next. I would have to read the script and feel for a character. And if I feel in my gut for a character, I know that that's somebody I have to play.

Since I don't have an image to be worried about, I am not concerned about it when it comes to selection of my roles.

You know I was always looking out for age appropriate roles.

I like Kamal Haasan's daring choice of roles. When I was in school and college, I modelled myself on him. I was so much in awe of him.

I don't believe a role can be written keeping in mind some actor. Even if such roles exist, I don't pick them because I generally choose roles that I think will suit my image.

I've always wanted to do a role based on a real-life person.

I prefer to play the villain or the antihero.

Who wants to see me as Hamlet? Very few. But millions want to see me as Frankenstein so that's the one I do.

When I choose a role, what I'm looking for is the ability is to tell our stories. Me being a black woman, that's just a given. It's going to be a part of any role I do, making sure I tell it truthfully and nuanced and in a way that many people can relate to.

I don't act. I am the way I am, and choose roles that I think suit my body language.

I just do what I feel and what I like. I don't necessarily censor or feel an obligation to have a particular moral standard - I'm willing to wallow in the mud, if necessary. It appears as if there seems to be a consistency in result, but maybe that has as much to do with the roles I choose as it does with how I play them. I do what pleases me.

I would never be in a film just for the sake of being in a film, so I am waiting for the right role to come along.

I am very choosy and keen to do good roles.

I am no longer willing to take parts in films and/or television shows which detract from the 50 years I have spent building my reputation.

I fell in love with filmmaking. I fell in love with criticism. I fell in love with theory, and it made me really dogmatic in my approach to choosing roles.

I only take on roles that I'm passionate about. Life is too short to do things that you're not happy with.

For an actor, who has done so many commercial movies, who has a large chunk of his fan following addressing him as 'guru,' it's not easy to opt for roles that strip one of the stardom.

I have always enjoyed my work and have chosen only what I thought was interesting by way of a role.

I thank God I'm in a position where I can pick and choose - there are some roles I don't play.

I am a known actor who wants to challenge himself in difficult roles. I am not a star but an actor, so I am always looking for strong scripts and strong roles.