Distinct Roles Quotes

I'm not conflicted. Because I know. There's me, and there's the show.

I'm an actor and I've created a lasting and memorable character named Frasier, who is not me, but who most people think is. So when I have a chance to play something that's different, I embrace it because it's fun; also in this case, he's a memorable character.

We're all different. Some people are musicians, some people are actors, some people are agents and some people are accountants... We're all different.

I'm only really interested in taking a part if it's nothing like me.

We were called, male and female, to do great works with separate approaches and separate assignments.

I don't just want to be a cute girl in a comedy or the actress who just does the same thing over and over again. I want to play roles that are distinct. I want to have a more varied career like actresses Viola Davis or Angela Bassett - those are the people that I grew up watching and admiring.

As much as possible, I'd like every role to be totally different from the one before.

I hope to do multiple characters throughout my life that are separate from me. I think it's a cop-out if you play yourself in everything.

It's totally different. I usually don't tell people about the Pleased if they know me from the harp. And if they are there to see the Pleased, I usually don't tell them about the harp. I am nervous that these people will expect something similar.

I think that the character that I'm playing now is so fundamentally different than Ally that I haven't I haven't felt like I had to worry about it at all. But I definitely wanted to make a different choice.