Laura Harring Quotes

I choose roles according to my sensibilities.

I never really do much research before signing a film. It is just the script and character that I concentrate on.

I don't really give much thought to the roles that I'd ideally love to play.

I enjoy doing everything, comedy and drama. I just look for the characters really and what they offer.

At the end of the day, I want to play characters that interest me.

I am not someone who will pick just any role in order to work. I want to attempt different characters.

I am open to any good script and the character I can do justice to.

By the time I got to the Fox studio for my first major film, I knew how to hit a mark. I knew how to memorize lines. I knew how to pay attention.

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.

The way I choose parts is I look at the scripts... I choose a part by whether or not it challenges me.

As a director, it is important to understand the actor's process.

I don't really ever think in terms of what type of person I'd love to play. I usually just read stuff and can tell. It's always fun to get to do things that stretch you and that you don't get to do a lot, but you never know until you see it.

I need to make sure that I'm taking roles that I feel like I can communicate through.

I don't go for glamour roles.

When I started acting, it was really the way for me to be able to communicate.

No, most of the decisions that I make with regard to taking roles, I just look for something that's challenging, something that I think I can accomplish, you know.

I've always been a material-based actor. That's what I've done, the choices I've made - like a heat-seeking missile.

Well, Mom and Dad are both actors, and I've spent a lot of time watching my mom on stage and a lot of time on set with my dad, so it was very much a part of my growing up.

I love to act. And oh-so-love telling stories through film as an actor. Even on my 'days off.'

Pretty much everything that I pick, when it comes to choosing roles, is just based on things and materials that grabs me. It's pretty much the subject matter that I gravitate towards.

It would drive me crazy if I picked roles with the goal of being a leading man. You never know what you're getting into when you sign onto a project, and more times than not, the characters that are close to the leading man are more interesting and more fun to play.

As an actress I take roles I find interesting.

One of my favorite parts of being an actress is being a detective.

My agent knows what I'm looking for. And I'm also looking for a new agent, too, so I'm putting it out there. Again, I'm not going to turn down every role, because there is no bad role, really. It's all what you bring to the role, but that traditional, 'Stand here and open a rope,' I'm not doing it.

If it's a good part in a good movie, I'll do it.