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I get better roles in television. I'm not going to do a lesser role just to be in a feature film.


Jaclyn Smith
Tags: Just Get Going
After college, I funded my short films with acting roles in film and TV. I learned my craft through the great opportunities British television gave me as a director.
Justin Chadwick
Tags: Great Me Through
I'm not trying necessarily to become a movie star; that wouldn't be bad but that's not the aim. I'm just trying to do interesting things and go into areas where I've not been before.
Phil Collins
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Pride is not the worst of sins. In fact, it's one of the most interesting ones.


Gene Wilder
Theatre has always been better disposed to colourblind casting than telly or film. Given that most television is contemporary, and it reaches 56 million people, I am disappointed there still isn't more representation.
Sanjeev Bhaskar
I've been on the wrong end of violence, and I've done violence myself... I refuse to glorify violence in my movie and television roles.
James Garner
Tags: Been Myself Done
I have been inundated with offers to move into a career in television or film, and these, too, are tempting.
David Ginola
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I was getting offers. I had just turned them down. Then I realized I should be grateful that at age 54, people were still offering me film roles.
Candice Bergen
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I am so tired of ruggedly handsome heroes. I don't know too many ruggedly handsome people who are necessarily nice people. In fact, the beautiful people have a big handicap because they rely too much on their appearance and don't bother to become interesting.
Barbara Mertz
It's interesting going between small parts and then bigger roles where you carry the film. If the writing is good, and if the people involved have integrity, then you'll do it, even if it's only five minutes on screen.
Brendan Gleeson
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When most people think about my work, they think about diet. To me, diet has always been the least interesting part of it.
Dean Ornish
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When I was 8, my dad asked me if I wanted to audition, just for fun. I did just a little short film, and I liked it. I just kept doing it, and then I started getting bigger auditions for bigger roles.
Kodi Smit-McPhee
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I am kind of a curmudgeonly person, so I don't gravitate to groups or traditions, which is probably just pretentious of me.
Anne Carson
Tags: Me Just Which
Every role is challenging in its own way, but the most challenging roles are the ones that are badly written - then it's completely up to you to come up with something that is interesting to the story and myself as an actor.
Richard Schiff
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Any actor wants to do interesting roles, different roles. It's not all that much fun to do the same thing over and over again.
Chris Pine
Tags: Much Thing Any
I'm not always angry. In fact, I think I usually go out of my way to try to find roles that don't seem to be like me.
Campbell Scott
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People credit me for making the universe interesting when in fact the universe is inherently interesting, and I'm merely revealing that fact. I don't think I'm anything special for this to happen.
Neil deGrasse Tyson
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People say I owe a lot to television. The fact is I was a star long before television. What TV made me is unemployed.
Milton Berle
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Acting like an adult and being professional on set and getting my work done has just been a lifestyle for me. It's not something I have to try hard to do, necessarily.
Colin Ford
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I have been portrayed by actors in three television documentaries, two plays, one musical and a film. It's no fun watching yourself being traduced and imitated by an actor.
Felix Dennis
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