Alexa Vega Quotes

I know that I've played a lot of comedic roles. It's a visual medium. When you get one role, you start to get cast in that role for awhile because that's what people have seen you do, and have hopefully seen you do it successfully.

I once literally had a casting director ask my agent, 'Can she play anything other than a drunk?'

Certainly, when I walk into an audition, a lot of people already know who I am.

Once you get into a part, and someone sees you, you get asked to do it again.

Anytime you're on camera, 95 percent of whatever character you're playing, unless you're Daniel Day-Lewis - or maybe, no, pretty much just him - you're cast because you're you.

As an actor I think sometimes producers need a little bit of encouragement to see you in a particular role, they may not have as much imagination as you would expect.

When I do an action thing, it speaks louder than the things that I've done that are dramatic and comedy. Actually, if you look at my resume, I have just as much comedic things as dramas, and I have far less action things than all of the other things, but I'm kind of defined as an action person.

I try to bring my own style to a role, but I can't change how people think of me.

I'm very selective about my scripts and about how I am projected on the screen.

I strongly believe that when you are cast in a role, there will be similarity in the character and you - why else would you be chosen for the character?

I try to explain to people that you get the roles that are right when they're right. If you have a nerd character but you're kind of a cool guy, you're probably not going to get the nerd part. The nerd is going to get the nerd part. You know, someone like me.

I remember that it was never that difficult for me to get a director to look up and pay attention to me. Mind you, I don't know if that's necessarily charm. But I've played roles where my character has to be charming and I've found it quite easy to do. I think some of it is in my bones, but some of it is more deliberate.

Wearing a monkey suit really lets you know where you stand as an actor.

You have to carry so many archetypes as an actor, especially as a blonde-haired, blue-eyed one.

It's interesting to me that I get cast as mothers and really maternal, sweet, nice people... Maybe I have a vulnerability or something; maybe that's what it is.

It was both comforting and terrifying to go in to audition for 'The Girl in the Cafe,' as I'd worked with everyone in the room on 'State Of Play.'

The one thing that's closest to my story is the thing about trying out for the juvenile delinquent role and getting it. That was the start of my acting career... which I've resumed, by the way.

I try and get out there and audition as much as possible.

I didn't want to be stuck in Dickens period dramas because then I would never know if I was any good.

In the end, I'm an actor. I'm paid for what I bring to the screen.

I'm an actor who plays an intriguing character, not a political pundit.

I don't feel like a romantic lead; I guess I feel more like a character actor.

Hollywood wants guys who can act tough - Hollywood don't want tough guys.

So when you make an impression in a certain kind of role, that tends to be the type of role that you get offered.

When I saw 'Legally Blonde' on Broadway, I rang my agent and said 'I want to be seen for this,' but the rest weren't big choices, really. 'Hedda Gabler' was a phone call offering it to me, and as I've said before quite embarrassingly, I didn't know the play, so I didn't sit there thinking 'I would now like to tackle Ibsen.'