Andrew Gower Quotes

Whenever I get a good script, I don't care whether it's telly or theatre or big screen - I'm not bothered.

I just auditioned for 'The Wire' like I just auditioned for any other job.

I still reject lead roles, as I don't accept any role if I don't find it challenging enough. I am very careful while making selections.

With acting, you might have a month of very intense work, but you've got a lot of downtime as well.

In this country, you have movie actors and theatre actors and television actors.

I got started as an actress doing musical theater, and I always loved 'Grease' and 'West Side Story,' and all those kind of movies.

Stage is definitely my home first and foremost - I still feel like I'm yet to earn my stripes on set.

If I had my druthers, I would do only stage work.

I don't think I auditioned for 'Ghostbusters II'.

I can't imagine that I would have been cast in the role, without Jamie Lee giving me a thumbs up.

It was a lot of auditions and tapings and stuff like that.

The first audition my manger sent me on was 'The Hunger Games,' and I got the role.

I've always just gone with the best role, and I don't care if it's in theater, film or television.

I'm hoping I can evade a type and go for roles based on what I consider plausible and what I consider good.

I think I was first choice for the part. I don't know - that's what they always tell you anyway. I didn't have to do any audition for the part. Sam saw me in Dinner and the whole thing slipped into place.

Well, usually when I finish one character, I'm looking for a role that's really different.

The role of my agent has just been to get me in the room. If I can get in the room - say the character is just a charming man who lives next door - then I'll walk in there and be as charming as I can and they will think to themselves, 'I don't see why we can't cast him.'

I want to do dramas. I want to do comedies.

I still have to audition for most things.

A lot of the time the film chooses me. I'll be working and I'll get a call from my agent and I'll get the script and then tell him what I think.

I gravitate to the roles, not necessarily television or film. It's just the fact that, for me, the most interesting roles have been in television.

Often, you're not quite sure what people have seen you in, but the script lands in your inbox. That was the case with 'The Night Manager.'

I've been doing dramas for a long time.

I auditioned for the part of Cosette in 'Les Miserables' on Broadway. It didn't work out.

I have the same criteria for choosing roles as I have always had: fantastic writing and complicated characters.