The role of the pastor is to embody the gospel. And of course to get it embodied, which you can only do with individuals, not in the abstract.
It wasn't my intention in going after this part but I suppose now I do. The adult roles are a lot meatier - you're not always just the daughter or the girlfriend or whatever.
Hermione is so close to who I am as a person that I've never really had to research a role. I'm literally rediscovering what it means to be an actress.
I came from the theater playing leading roles, and when I started doing film and television, I felt as if I had to start from the bottom.
However, I'm at a very comfortable place in my career and celebrity, in that I don't have to audition as extensively as I used to for roles but yet I'm not immediately recognizable.
When I'm a director, I look at myself the actor as a completely different person. It's somebody else up there, an actor playing a role. I keep myself out of it.
I still have a reputation as an eccentric. But the fact is that audiences probably mix up my roles with me as a person.
Our role is to develop techniques that allow us to provide emergency life-saving procedures to injured patients in an extreme, remote environment without the presence of a physician.
Each of my career decisions has been very much about doing what I wanted to achieve in the role and then finding another challenge.
When you see a singer on stage who is 100% committed to the personality, character and temperament of the role being sung, it's truly awesome and very powerful.
Fashion has a political role insofar as following it can give you the impression to belonging to a certain social group or a private club.
I've loved taking on roles that have a very universal message that lots of people can identify and relate to - and at the end of the day can get people talking.
The reason why I like theater is because it's a long journey, and no matter what role you play, we are all in it together.
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.
Well, obviously, as soon as I'd finished the script I read a lot of books on Winston Churchill, and started to gain weight and really prepare emotionally, mentally and physically for the role.
I get criticized for taking roles in films like 'Ghost Rider 2', but if you look at my resume, dude, I've mixed it up as much as I can.
These same people seem to forget that mother also took a lot of chances with the type of roles she played.
You could say I'm a character actress. Or maybe a character actress who does peculiar, interesting lead roles. Does that make sense?
The alliance should agree... to an effective NATO role against the new threats presented by international terrorism and weapons of mass destruction.
Writers are like actors too. For every story we create, we must get under the skin of the characters and role play with our writing.
Given that external reality is a fiction, the writer's role is almost superfluous. He does not need to invent the fiction because it is already there.
