Role Performance Quotes

I feel there are only well acted or badly acted roles and no such thing as a good actor or actress.

I think every actor brings something personal to a role, right?

As an actor, I've always been interested in making sure I can perform the role and the lines in the way the writer intended.

Given the choice between someone saying I was handsome in a role or ugly but good, I know which I'd choose.

I believe how a character eventually turns out is completely attributable to an actor. Even with a meaty role, if I am enacting it as an accessory, I will look like an accessory.

Real quality in roles is very hard to come by. Any actor or actress will tell you that. Great movies are hard to come by. It's almost impossible to make one, and most people have to settle for making something less.

I think one thing that's always a concern to me is you see a role, and you're not seeing the character; you're seeing so-and-so do it. Then I'm taken out of the story considerably, personally.

Remember that you are an actor in a play, and that the Playwright chooses the manner of it: If he wants you to act a poor man you must act the part with all your powers; and so if your part be a cripple or a magistrate or a plain man. For your business is to act the character that is given you and act it well. The choice of the cast is Another's.

I played the best role I've ever seen on TV or film in the last five years. It was hugely gratifying.

Watching Jodie on this is incredible; it's the perfect role for her. It's so intense and so emotional. She just jumped right into it and is so professional.

My father had no sons, so I became queen. The only thing I had to do was perform the role.

Did I play my part well in this comedy of life?

It's hard to prove yourself when the substance isn't there in certain roles.

I've been wanting for some time to find a way of stylizing cinema and trying to get closer to the emotional story I was telling and get rid of all the bumph that goes with it and allow the audience a more participatory experience. It was an attempt to do all of those things and to express the idea that all these people were just performing roles in their lives.

Washington had performed his role to perfection. It was no enough that a leader look the part; by Washington's rules, he must know how to act it with self-command and precision.