Role Availability Quotes

Good roles are hard to find no matter what age.

Acting is a craft to me: I just think you get better the more you do it. And then the irony to that is your doing it is not in your control. If it was up to most actors, we'd work all the time, and we'd always get better. But it's not in our control, so we have to wait to be given parts to do.

If I only get to play Malaysian roles, there wouldn't be very many roles for me to play.

I think it's always hard to find great roles, no matter what age you are. So I always say to people, 'You have to remember that Hollywood is in the business of making movies that they can sell tickets to; they're not in the business of finding great roles for actors.'

I can get a better role in TV and work more constantly than I can waiting around for my friends in Canada to call me every four years - which they do - and I go up there and play a leading role.

It's very rare that you get a part that you actually like. People have a misconception, whether it be because actors lie or because you're reading interviews from giantly, massively famous actors, but you don't just get offered parts, all the time. You actually have to work to get them.

I love making films, but the best roles are hard to come by.

It's hard to really get that excited about movies. Think about it like this: how many good comedy movies come out a year? Maybe one or two? And then, in those movies, what are the chances that there's a character that I'm the best fit to play? It's really small!

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 feel there is no shortage of real interesting women's roles. But I found them and did all of them just now.

The availability of roles for deaf actors has always been very limited. After 'Switched at Birth' began including deaf actors, a ripple effect has definitely been created in the industry. 'Switched at Birth' has made an impact for the better.

People always ask me, 'Why so many historical dramas?' Because those are the best roles I get to play, and I get to play heroes in those roles.

We should realise that Hollywood is not obliged to write roles for Asian actors.

There are times when you get several great, exciting roles; there are times when you don't.

I'm not George Clooney, so I can't just pick and choose. I take roles where they occur.

It's true in the beginning I started playing villains, and I think that's pretty clear, because if you don't conventionally look a certain way and you've got a certain kind of presence when you're young, then what's available to you is character roles, and the best character roles when you're young tend to be villains.

If you look at the movies that come out, most of them are bad, so it's not as if achieving some level of success means you get offered better roles, because frankly they don't seem to exist.

I think when an actress is good, roles in mid-forties is a great thing.

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

I've not sat with my agent going: 'Where is the next hopeless girl I can play?' They just come along.

My whole career strategy has been to build a base so that I could take the roles I want to play. I'd hate to think that a shorter part might not be available because I was worried about my billing.

Any actress - goodness, we're lucky to be working. We all know that. There are few parts, a few good ones.

I think when average-size people start taking roles that were meant for dwarfs, that's a little frustrating because there aren't that many roles out there for height-challenged actors.

When I was in my early twenties, parts would be written for women in their fifties, and I would get them. And now I'm in my early thirties, and I'm like, 'Why did that 24-year-old get that part?' I was that 24-year-old once. I can't be upset about it; it's the way things are.

I want to carry a show, but there are not a lot of leading parts for people who are not celebrities.