Role Adaptation Quotes

I'm fortunate enough to have had an opportunity to do a range of stuff, and the thing I admire most in actors is versatility, those that morph and change, those kind of chameleon actors who are unrecognisable from one job to another. That's something that I aspire to establish myself.

My James Bond wasn't any different to my Saint or my Persuaders or anything else I've done. I've just made everything that I play look like me and sound like me.

I want to aspire to something like what Denzel Washington does, which is try to find scripts written for white actors - or Jodie Foster, who reads scripts for male actors.

When I came back to Britain, I realized that I was no longer a very young woman. I had to meet my new consciousness, my new age, with roles that reflected it somewhat.

My approach to the work is the same, whether I had the lead or a supporting role. I consider myself a character actor in the true sense of the word. Unless I'm doing my autobiography, I'm playing a character.

My profession is to change myself according to my role and I work hard on it.

I didn't set out specifically to be a manager, but once you end up in that role you want to be measured against the best in the profession.

You're being cast for your acting ability. It's not based on the way your body functions. If you're playing a lead in a movie, it's for that character and they'll tailor it to you. In a dance company, you have to fit in a definite mold.

My strength is my flexibility. As a batsman, I have to adapt to different roles and numbers and frankly, I have been around for a long time now to understand different situations.

One minute, you're dropping your teenage son off to a festival, and the next, you're changing a nappy, but I love the versatility and challenge of being a father.

According to the situation, your role changes in one-day cricket, especially in a phase like the Powerplay. If I bowl four spells, four times I will be playing a different role. If I come in the first Powerplay, and say the opposition are 70 for no loss after 10 overs, I will be looking to take a wicket.

Playing on the right isn't a role I prefer, but sometimes you've got to do your job for the team.

It feels amazing to be back on set. It feels like home, even though the territory is a little bit unfamiliar because it's a new show, it's a new character, but once you get in the groove and you start to settle in and trust the moment, you start to really feel at home.

My sense of myself is that I'm a character actor, and character actors are ready, willing, and able to do anything, to be totally different from themselves. That's my job, to be ready. I'm some kind of first responder.

I am always open to learning. I am always open to adapting myself to a new role and a new position.

I've always wanted to be one of those actors who could change from character to character, like Daniel Day Lewis or Jeffrey Wright.

As an English actress constantly playing Americans, you already had to step way out of your box in that way.

There's some kind of actors that can radically change who they are from movie to movie. I've never really been that kind of actor. I enjoy changing the worlds that I'm in.

As an actor, you're supposed to be able to form yourself into different characters and different roles. It's a transformation, and it is awesome.

I think once you've allocated an actor to the role that the character will evolve slightly.

It is easier to get an actor to be a cowboy than to get a cowboy to be an actor.

What has emerged as I've gotten older is simplifying the characters I play, unless the role calls for something that is arcane or ornate.

That's what I love about acting, is playing different roles. I want to work for the character, and not make it work for me.

I think each role has had different challenges.

I've done many, many French movies and many, many English movies. I think it frees something when you don't talk in your mother language, but I also think you withdraw something as well. I'm a French actress, and sometimes I speak in English-speaking roles. For me, being an actress was always being a traveler. It goes together.