“All actors bring something unexpected to the role because they have to translate what's on the page and make a real character out of the black-and-white text that's there in the script.” RealCharacterActorsBlackWhiteRolesPagesScriptsUnexpectedBlack And WhiteTranslateReal CharacterSomething Unexpected Author:Joe Johnston
“I think I fully commit myself to any role to the extent to which I can. In other words there's some roles that maybe it's just not there, in other words on the page. You know, I mean your job is you need to play the governor and that's what you do. I mean I'm not going to stay up all night if I'm playing a functional role. And I've played a couple of functional roles. And so I'm not going to do anything other, look he's a functional guy. He says hey mister, you forgot your hat.” IfsThinkingKnowsNeedsLooksMeanI CanPlayJobsNightGuyRolesCouplePagesCommitHeyHatsGovernorsAll NightUp All Night Author:Billy Bob Thornton
“I think the writing and the casting and all of that has so much to do with actors becoming their characters. I think if an actor is right for a role, casting sees that and the words that are on the page, depending on how it's written, can really help your character develop.” IfsThinkingWritingCharacterHelpingActorsRolesWrittenBecomingPagesCasting Author:Scott Michael Foster
“If we look at Somalia, Ethiopia and Lybia, to how they're reduced now, and to how they were before, with Italy, I think that this page of history will be rewritten and there will be a positive evaluation of the role of Italy” IfsThinkingLooksRolesPagesEvaluationEthiopiaSomalia Author:Gianfranco Fini
“In 'Tintin,' it's like a live-action role. You're living and breathing and making decisions for that character from page 1 to page 120, the whole emotional arc. In an animated movie, it's a committee decision. There are 50 people creating that character. You're responsible for a small part.” PeopleWholeCharacterActionDecisionRolesEmotionalCreatingPagesResponsibleBreathingCommitteesAnimatedArcsSmall PartsMaking DecisionsAnimated Movies Author:Andy Serkis
“I definitely want to do films. To see a character out from beginning to end in a matter of a hundred somewhat pages and then move on to the next role, is fascinating.” WantEndsMatterCharacterFilmMovingNextRolesPagesHundredFascinating Author:Michael B. Jordan
“Johnny Depp is really my favorite male actor. Ellen Page would be my favorite female actor. Both of them, just because of the diversity that Johnny plays in his roles and just the different characters that he morphs into, it's fantastic.” DifferentPlayCharacterWould BeActorsRolesDiversityPagesFemaleMalesMy FavoriteFantasticDifferent Characters Author:Callan McAuliffe
“I just look for characters that have dimensions. If I don't see it written on the page, then I try to put it in there somehow. You don't want to play the same role twice.” IfsWantTryingLooksPlayCharacterRolesWrittenPagesDimensions Author:Boyd Holbrook
“As an actor, you very rarely have the experience of picking up a script and getting a few pages into it and realizing that what you're holding in your hands is not just a role on a TV show, but it's one of those special parts that comes along, once or twice in a career. If you're lucky, you get an opportunity to do something really memorable and to be part of one of those rare shows that passes into that special category.” IfsShowsHandsActorsOpportunityRealizingCareersRolesSpecialTvsLuckyPagesScriptsMemorableCategoriesTv ShowsLucky You Author:Holt McCallany
“There's plenty of girlfriend roles out there. They've come my way, and many people have turned them down, and I think, "Oh maybe I could do something with this." It's interesting when you get those roles, which seem like nothing on the page, and you kind of subvert them. It's hard to say no.” PeopleThinkingWayKindHardSeemsInterestingRolesPagesDown AndPlentyMy WayGirlfriend Author:Cate Blanchett
“It's interesting when you get those roles, which seem like nothing on the page, and you kind of subvert them. It's hard to say no.” KindHardSeemsInterestingRolesPages Author:Cate Blanchett
“The key role of entrepreneurs, like the most crucial role of scientists, is not to fill in the gaps in an existing market or theory, but to generate entirely new markets or theories. . .They stand before a canvas as empty as any painter's; a page as blank as any poet's.” RolesPoetTheoryKeysPagesEmptyScientistEntrepreneurPainterGapsCrucialBlankCanvas Book:The Spirit of Enterprise Source: The Spirit of Enterprise
“I always like to try to bring whatever I can to what is on the page, so I like to find as much dimension as I can, in each role.” TryingI CanRolesPagesDimensions Author:Nestor Carbonell
“My role models are Bettie Page and Mia Kirshner. Every day when Mia comes to work she raises the bar for us all.” RolesPagesModelsRaisesBarsRole ModelsMiaRaising The Bar Author:Jennifer Beals
“A character on a page has to feel real, and for me the greatest fun is if you could gender-swap the role.” IfsFeelsRealCharacterFunRolesPagesGender Author:Natalie Dormer
“I've never taken a role where I don't like a person on the page.” PersonsRolesTakenPages Author:Felicity Jones