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There are lots of different reasons to choose roles.

I choose roles that are not me.

I don't really have preferred roles except those with some complexity.

If a role isn't different, it's not worth doing.

I think every role you get is going to be a powerful one. As long as you go in with the mindset of, 'Yeah, I'm going to make the most of this.' So that's the kind of attitude I take into each role that I play.

I take a role because it makes sense to me, rationally.

I don't think I've ever had a real desire to pick out any particular role - I just see what comes up.

Every role affords me something different in the way of understanding, and that's really why you take these roles, not to show that thing that people talk about of showing what you can do - that has nothing to do with anything.

I don't pick roles based on how famous they are going to make me; I pick roles based on how they're going to inspire me intellectually.