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I have a friend who says that roles choose you at the time that you need them most, and you have to believe, as an actor, if you didn't get a part that you really, really wanted, and it went to someone else, it was because it was theirs to begin with.

— Emma Stone

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

As an actor, you always want to find a piece of who you are in every role you take on.

— Larenz Tate

I haven't been in a position to have the luxury to pick roles for most of my career, so I'm not practiced in that. Usually, when you want to be an actor, you take whatever comes along. If there's an audition, you go for it. If you get the job, you do it - just to get experience, to act, to meet people.

— Ken Leung

There's something important, as an actor, about allowing yourself to be approached by people to do roles. People see different things in you.

— Damian Lewis

Some actors give you what you want. Some you have to make do what you want.

— Ang Lee

You go through stages in your career that you feel very good about yourself. Then you feel awful, like, 'Why didn't I choose something else?' But overall I'm pretty satisfied that I made the right choice when I decided to be an actor.

— Gene Hackman

As an actor, you can do what you want with your role. That's why they hire you; to take the role and make it real.

— Ice T

Oftentimes, actors don't have the luxury of picking their part. You go from one project to the next, and you hope that you find one that fits you and that you're suited for, and then they see that you're fit for it.

— Michael Trucco

There's a side to you as an actor, a selfish side, that wants to go on and play different roles.

— Katee Sackhoff

✗Opposing Perspectives

I get to choose things that interest me as opposed to trying to get any job that will have me, which for a vast majority of actors is the case.

— Neil Patrick Harris

As an actor you make choices that are either right or wrong, and you find the ones that are right for you. As an understudy, the choices have been made, so you have to make those choices right. Going into the role, you can't really question it.

— James Lecesne