Role Aspiration Quotes

I know at some point I would like to take on more dramatic roles.

From a very early age, I knew I wanted to be Carl Denham.

I'd like to play Matt Damon's daddy. He's a wonderful actor, I really admire him, and I'd like to play his dad one day.

I would love to be in 'Downton Abbey.' That's the thing I thing many people would have a good laugh with me saying anything like that. I feel like that's the next phase of my career. To reprove to everyone that I can do things besides the crazy characters.

I think it would be great to play a superhero. That will be one of my goals.

I am a greedy actor, and I want the best roles to come my way.

I want to play a villain - I can't wait to play a villain.

I want to do comedy and an action role.

A lot of people loved to hate my character on 24. I want to be the character people love to love.

I long to play a judge. I long to play a lesbian woman. I long to play a councilman, someone with some chutzpah.

You have to capitalise on any success you have and keep doing what you do as well as you can. But how do you define success? In my book, it's to be playing those parts you saw your idols - Judi Dench, Maggie Smith, Helen Mirren, Vanessa Redgrave - playing when they were the age you are now.

I want the chance to play very different characters, and I've always wanted to do more films.

I just don't think of myself as an actor much at all, so I don't lust after any particular roles.

Alia Bhatt's role in 'Udta Punjab' is something I would like to do. Nobody can replace Alia in the movie, and she did a fabulous job, but I would love to do such roles.

Every time I see a good play or watch a good movie, I have the same feeling I had as a child of wanting to be that person on stage or wanting to run through the forest with a big dress on.

I know certain roles are important to me. I know that I really want to play them. I know I can do a good job. But I can never put into words why.

I would love to play Dot in 'Sunday in the Park with George.' It's one of my dream roles - to play Dot.

Man, it's hard to beat having gotten to play Superman. But where do you go from there? Aren't careers supposed to culminate in a role like that? And because I'm a big fat geek, as long as there's stuff I'm excited about - and isn't that really the definition of geek? - there'll always be roles I'd love to play.

I think for any actor, for the roles they deeply, truly want? They always have to audition for them.

I've still not gotten my choice of the best roles in the world.

I'm not one of those actors who's very good at having a list of roles that I want to play someday - which is bad, because I really need to do it. I have people in theaters ask me what I want to do and I don't have an answer!

I always wanted to play a negative role.

I have a hunger for good roles.

It's been a teenage fantasy of mine to play Bodhi.

I want to do something where I play Judi Dench's younger sister or daughter.