Role Significance Quotes

It doesn't matter about the length of the role. I don't do films for the number of scenes. I go for the quality of my character in the film and the impact that I will have.

Lofty posts make great men greater still, and small men much smaller.

It's not necessarily how many minutes you're on screen, it's the material you have. It's more important what it is you have to do than the amount of time you're there.

When you cast someone like Natalie Portman, the character can't just be the love interest.

Up until the time I was cast in 'Star Trek,' the roles were pretty shallow - thin, stereotyped, one-dimensional roles. I knew this character was a breakthrough role, certainly for me as an individual actor but also for the image of an Asian character: no accent, a member of the elite leadership team.

Every actor will say there are no small roles. And that is true.

I don't want to do a film where I have a ten minute role.

That's the great thing about being an actor: getting the opportunity to do something that really speaks to you.

I do think the position I play is a powerful position.

As an actor, every opportunity, every role, everything that I do is an opportunity to have someone have a human experience with my work. I don't just want it to be about a cute wardrobe and a high paycheck.

The formula for success is every guy can make a difference for the entire team in whatever his role is. And to do it right, to get it right, is a critical factor in being successful.

I've heard people tell me there's never been a gay character like Agron on TV before, and some fans have even thanked me because they now feel like they have a gay action hero, and it's very endearing to hear that kind of stuff. But I just played him the way he was and tried to do right by the character.

It's rather rare when you play an older character in a movie in a supporting role to even get an arc.

As an actor, you never really set out to be a stand-out character. You just want to do justice to the story and enjoy playing it, and find all the different nooks and crannies of who someone is. For each part that you get, they're all special and you just try to give everything you can to each one. I don't know whether they're going to be stand out in that way or not factors into my work. They all stand out for me.

Frankly, I hadn't expected my role in 'Avvai Shanmughi' to be so significant.

As actors, we often look for the scene, big moments that say, 'This is why you have to do this role.'

If needed, I would have even given seven years of my life for 'Baahubali,' as such characters are rare to play in a lifetime for any actor. I consider myself very fortunate and lucky for it.

To me, it doesn't really matter how big the part is as long as the part is important to the story.

It's very rare that you get to play a character over the course of so many films. Bella meant a lot to me and she will always be such a formative event in my career. I grew up with her and she and I have been on this great journey together. I also see many parallels between her evolution and my own because I lived through so many things along the way while playing Bella and having this connection to so many people involved in making the films over the years. It would be impossible for me to separate my world from Bella's.

No matter who the character is and how big their role, that each person in the story is a human being and deserves respect. Even if they're in the story for ten seconds, I didn't want you to just see them as this entity passing through that's serving all of the other people.

Being an actor, I have no issues with a character being negative or positive as long as the role is substantial and meaty.

I have not done any film where my role didn't make sense.

The role of a do-gooder is not what actors call a fat part.

I'm here to be an actor who wants to be remembered for her roles and her films rather than her looks.

You can be the lead in a movie just for the sake of being a lead in a movie, or you can just be in a good movie.