There isn't just one kind of person that can play a superhero.
You don't have to look like a warrior in every role.
I'm hoping to reach a point when I can play all kinds of roles with equal ease.
Sure, I'd play an ape if they asked me. Maurice Evans did.
A character on a page has to feel real, and for me the greatest fun is if you could gender-swap the role.
I feel like it's really important for an actor to play different roles so people can see, "Oh, he can play that guy or he can play this guy." You're not just "THAT guy," that cowboy guy, that whatever guy. Then you are limiting yourself.
I was not easy to cast, but also, I have never been typecast.
Whatever role the coaches decide for me and the team, I'm happy with that.
People come up to me and say, 'You are such a great bad guy.' The fact is that the antagonist in a movie is usually the most fun to play. You can stretch the role and do so much with it.
I've said maybe too many times that I'd rather be typecast than not cast at all.
Out in the field, I feel like I'm flexible enough to where I'm comfortable at different positions, wherever they want to put me.
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 preparation doesn't change from being a backup to a starter.
I have been up and down the batting order and it's difficult. People don't always realise that.
I just feel like I'm a basketball player. I don't really have a position. I can play inside. I can play out. So whatever a team needs, I think I got it.
I'm really drawn to chameleons; I'm really drawn to people who can play a wide range of roles, who are really versatile, but are so in a way that's with ease.
People have more freedom to bring more of their personal qualities into the role they play once they have established themselves and their competence is no longer in question. But this is always within limits.
That's the nice thing about being in Mr. Big, is I'm not only the guitar player. I'm the background singer, and so I get to do both of those things. Sometimes we even switch instruments and I get to be the drummer.
I can just be one of those guys that used in the mix, playing 4 or 5 if we play smaller.
I actually prefer playing as a left winger rather than a striker, but I just want to be very clear that I'm willing to play in either position.
It's funny, because I've never thought of myself as a Hispanic actor, like in 'American Gangster,' I'm playing an Italian. I've always been fortunate enough to have been allowed to play all these diverse roles.
I really like the challenge of working with different kinds of music. I feel like my role is really like a coach, so I feel like I can do my job for different kinds of music that may not necessarily be what I listen to.
I have been lucky makers have allowed me to experiment with my roles.
I prefer to play the bad guy - it gives you more freedom as an actor.
I wouldn't want to be associated with one character, because I want to be able to do different roles.
