Heather Matarazzo Quotes

I don't really prepare for roles. I just kind of do them!

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• I've been told I'm too good looking for certain roles, but that's okay, it just motivates me to go deeper.

  

  Garrett Hedlund
  • Good
  • Me
  • Certain

• I don't know if I've ever played a character who's close to me. There have been some elements of myself in different roles. Sometimes, I show one side of myself and then completely conceal the other.

  

  Karen Allen
  • Character
  • Me
  • Roles

• I am a friend when I need to be a friend, a father when I need to be a father, a musician when music calls. I switch roles accordingly.

  

  A. R. Rahman
  • Music
  • Father
  • Friend

• I love the action that I'm able to do. I grew up in Maine, outdoors and playing with the boys and shooting skeet. I have my girly side, too. But, I do like playing the strong female roles, especially now with something as simple as Twitter, where you've got young women following you.

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • Love
  • Action
  • Playing

• I have never thought about creating an image for myself in Bollywood. I am an actor and just want to experiment with roles. I am ready to do all type of roles.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • Actor
  • Roles
  • Image

• I am done with the cliched heroine roles. I can't go to work without a challenge. I want to do films that drive me, films in which I am a part of the main plot.

  

  Samantha Ruth Prabhu
  • Work
  • Films
  • Roles

• There's something really incredible about watching what someone else does with a role that we know: the Hamlets or the Henry Vs or the Othellos or the Cleopatras that we've seen on stage.

  

  Kevin Spacey
  • Knows
  • Doe
  • Roles

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

  

  Bela Lugosi
  • Earth
  • Interesting
  • Play

• Well, my favorite roles so far are Lucas and Lost Boys.

  

  Corey Haim
  • Lost
  • Roles
  • Lost Boys

• I think there's an opportunity for a couple of them for sure, maybe more depending upon the situation, but it's too early to say which ones. It's a pretty competitive fight. And that doesn't mean the older guys are just going to walk into spots. I remind them all the time - you got to earn everything you get. And that's what made our team good last year, is guys really competed for opportunities and understood their roles.

  

  Tony Bennett
  • Time
  • Good
  • Pretty

• O.K., we had women's lib in the '60s, the women fought for their roles, they're out there in the work force. Now let's talk about how they're dealing with things as human beings.

  

  Kathy Bates
  • Work
  • Women
  • Force

• I've never seen a great actor do a major role that didn't cost a lot. They're sacrificial animals of a sort.

  

  Tony Kushner
  • Great
  • Animal
  • Actors

• To love without role, without power plays, is revolution.

  

  Rita Mae Brown
  • Love
  • Power
  • Play

• A concern with parenting...must direct attention beyond behavior. This is because parenting is not simply a set of behaviors, but participation in an interpersonal, diffuse, affective relationship. Parenting is an eminently psychological role in a way that many other roles and activities are not.

  

  Nancy Chodorow
  • Way
  • Relationship
  • Attention

• I am the least qualified person to comment on anyone playing the role of Batman since I so terribly destroyed the part.

  

  George Clooney
  • Persons
  • Roles
  • Comment

• I would love a recurring role on '90210.' I would say yes to just about any role in acting that doesn't tarnish my image.

  

  Vinny Guadagnino
  • Acting
  • Roles
  • Recurring

• I think feminists are unaware of the tremendous extent of the role of women in history.

  

  Vivienne Westwood
  • Thinking
  • Women
  • Feminist

• Corporate Hollywood thinks I'm a geek to go back and do theater. They don't understand why I don't want to be a movie star, why I'm not pursuing Mel Gibson's roles.

  

  William Petersen
  • Thinking
  • Stars
  • Hollywood

• I'm definitely a fan of sort of dramas, independent sort of social dramas where you play really challenging roles. Every actor wants to play those dark roles and it's definitely true for me and I'd love to kind of challenge myself in any way possible.

  

  Nathalie Emmanuel
  • Roles
  • Challenging
  • Sort

• If the six-nation forums dealing with Iran and North Korea suffer comparable failures, the consequence will be a world of unchecked proliferation, not controlled by either governing principles or functioning institutions. A modern, strong, peaceful Iran could become a pillar of stability and progress in the region. This cannot happen unless Iran's leaders decide whether they are representing a cause or a nation - whether their basic motivation is crusading or international cooperation. The goal of the diplomacy of the Six should be to oblige Iran to confront this choice.

  

  Henry Kissinger
  • Forums
  • Iran
  • North Korea

• I was in high school, and when you get to be 14, 15, you start to feel a little more like your own person so that you can assert your adulthood a little bit.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • School
  • High
  • Start

• I got really good input up until the age of 11, which is perfect. That's when adolescence starts, when I would have really wanted to rebel. Up until that point, though, it didn't feel like doctrine, and it gave me a great moral structure.

  

  Bat for Lashes
  • Up
  • Good
  • Great

• I always dreamed of being Maria in The Sound of Music.

  

  Victoria Jackson
  • Music
  • Always
  • Sound

• I don't really prepare for roles. I just kind of do them!

  

  Heather Matarazzo
  • Roles