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I'd like to quit the supernatural roles and play just an interesting, down-to-earth person.


Bela Lugosi

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RICHARD CORLISS I don't really give much thought to the roles that I'd ideally love to play.
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JACQUELINE BISSET I'd like to be in anything that tells a good story and has an interesting character.
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AIDAN QUINN I'd just as soon play tennis with the net down.
ROBERT FROST I'm so down to earth, I'm bringing gravity back.
TINIE TEMPAH I'm down to earth; people sense that and they appreciate it.
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ADEWALE AKINNUOYE-AGBAJE We would walk over the names of Vincent Price, Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi, never, ever thinking t...
ALICE COOPER If you write interesting roles, you get interesting people to play them. If you write roles that are...
PAUL SCHRADER I'd like to play an alien, like from 'Starman' or 'K-PAX,' where it's human....
CHAD LINDBERG Sometimes I'd like to play the bad guy and sometimes I'd like to die in a movie.
JACKIE CHAN I am just a person who is human, down to earth enjoying life... whatever god blesses you with. Enjoy...
MOHAMED AL-FAYED It's hard because I seek out strong female roles. I turn down a lot of stuff, not because it'...
GINA HOLDEN I'm very down-to-earth and accessible, I think.
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NANCY MARCHAND An Oklahoma girl like me wouldn't even know how to be a diva. I'm just a person who has a co...
CARRIE UNDERWOOD Growing up as a kid in Detroit, way back, there was a movie station that would show old kinescope re...
EDWARD HERRMANN I'm definitely interested in taking on roles where I don't look like myself. But I'm not...
DOUGLAS BOOTH I'm an actor; I want to play roles, not a role.
ED WESTWICK What makes sense these days? Sense is common; Common sense is rare
GWEN MERKELBACH My family are very down-to-earth people. We are not showbizzy at all.
GEMMA ARTERTON I love to play different roles. That's just the kind of actor I am.
IDRIS ELBA I'm inspired every time I see a role I'd like to play, an actor turn in a well crafted perfo...
T'KEYAH CRYSTAL KEYMAH Are you taking us to the beach?" - Dan Cahill
JUDE WATSON I am down-to-earth and not one of those starry, up-their-own-butt celebrities.
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OLIVIA WILDE An actor is an impersonator; he plays many different roles. If you played the same role all the time...
ROBERT LOGGIA I admire actors that consistently challenge themselves and play a wide range of different roles. Eve...
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ROB LOWE I try to stay far away from anything creepy and supernatural. I'd rather not think about it.
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ROSS BUTLER I think there's something about supernatural shows that people see and just want to put me in th...
COLTON HAYNES I've been lucky enough to play roles that are not just the preppy cheerleader or sullen emo girl...
TARA LYNNE BARR I was never someone that was attached to any party. You know, I've always been an independent pe...
NAGUIB SAWIRIS I want to play an action hero. I'm ready for roles that totally aren't me.
KIRSTEN DUNST Whatever is said about roles drying up, I intend to keep working. Certainly now the roles couldn'...
NAOMI WATTS We tried to make a heaven of earth,
But the earth is just a stage, a school,
Where we wear...
KATE MCGAHAN I like doing what I do, but I like having the opportunity to do different things, and obviously come...
JASON WILES Nonchalance is the ability to remain down to earth when everything else is up in the air.
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DOROTHY MCGUIRE I've always been down-to-earth about money.
CHYNNA PHILLIPS I like being involved in interesting and creative things. I'd just rather be involved in creatin...
KAREN GILLAN It looks ancient," - Amy Cahill
JUDE WATSON I have only got down on to paper, really, three types of people: the person I think I am, the people...
E. M. FORSTER I'd like to do more Shakespeare. I'd like to do Iago in Othello. I look so benign. It would ...
KYLE MACLACHLAN I like playing characters with as many emotions as possible. I'd love to play a really crazy per...
ELLE FANNING I took an acting class. After the first day, the teacher quit, so they said take another. When I saw...
WENDY LIEBMAN I get to do interesting roles and make a living.
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SAMANTHA RUTH PRABHU They sent me some tapes of the original Mole and I thought it was pretty intriguing. I'm sort of...
CORBIN BERNSEN I love London. I would move here. I like British people; everybody is so down to earth.
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ED SHEERAN I'd gotten away from my Buddhism. And I quit meditating.
TIGER WOODS If by chance people would still offer me roles, I'd still like to do them. But if not, that'...
EMMANUELLE RIVA When the Hollywood thing happened, I thought at some point I'd get to the front of the queue: &#...
OLIVIA WILLIAMS Being an actor gives you a chance to play all kinds of roles, very moving and dramatic on one projec...
SARAH MICHELLE GELLAR I'd like to get more bit-acting roles. I don't know if my talent would allow for a long dial...
HANNIBAL BURESS I think if I took therapy, the doctor would quit. He'd just pick up the couch and walk out of th...
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DOMINIC MONAGHAN My dad is very down to earth, and I view him as a creative genius, and I am very proud of that.
DYLAN LAUREN I usually do get to play the very sweet, charming roles... but I'm not an obvious kind of villai...
JACKI WEAVER I'd been going to college for nine years, and before I completed my dissertation, I quit.
ROBERT WEINBERG It SMELLS ancient," - Dan Cahill
JUDE WATSON Palm trees were fanned by a warm, light breeze, and they rolled down their windows to smell the sea.
JUDE WATSON I feel there is no shortage of real interesting women's roles. But I found them and did all of t...
MAGGIE GYLLENHAAL I really, really, really love my job, so it's not like I'm trying to quit wrestling to do mo...
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CHRIS PINE I'd love to play a villain in a movie, the kind of bad guy you would never think of me being abl...
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JILLIAN HERVEY I like to disappear in my roles because I don't have an assistant.
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BERNADETTE PETERS I never thought I'd be right to play a Juliet-like character.
ELLIE KENDRICK Women in their 40s have gone through quite a few different things, and so the roles are going to ref...
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JUSTIN KIRK You can have an interesting story about a person living an interesting life. And if it's done we...
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