Role Quotations | Page 6

Some roles have been with me forever

The very first things that I did, even in theater, were bad guys. They are meaty roles for the most part. With the bad guy you have more freedom to experiment and go further out than with a good guy.

It depends, because sometimes an action role can be very demanding, and sometimes a dialogue-driven character can be very demanding, and vice versa. It depends.

There's a huge raft of roles that actors in our culture perform, and you can see any one of about three Hamlets in a year. It's not something to be completely daunted by.

Landing the role of Stephen Hawking was the most positively surprising thing that has happened to me.

When you're creating new roles out of scratch in my opinion working with the actors is a great asset. You can learn a lot from that.

My favorite roles usually have to do with the story, if it's a good story I usually enjoy doing the character.

I knew her work very well and I knew that if she offered me a role in her movie, it wouldn't be something stupid. So I agreed to do the film before I read the script.

I think everyone needs to be a role model, period.

We still won't be great risk-takers. That is something that I am going to mandate for myself. We have to do a great job of evaluating potential recruits. It's also our role as coaches to motivate and let them know what they need to do to graduate.