Roles Quotes
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I'm not actually a mom in real life, so it's fun to pretend to be one. I like to approach things the same in art as in life. You can choose to look on the positive side and enjoy whatever roles you're given. You can find the silver lining in anything.
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I was very sensitive to the environment around, and this disparity in people, seeing beggars and laborers not paid well, used to disturb me. So these emotions in these roles came very naturally to me.
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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.
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Physical roles give me a chance to learn something new.
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I've done all these historical epics and chivalrous roles, but there's an odder, quirkier side to me that nobody knows about.
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There aren't a lot of roles written for women who are strong willed.
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Well, I have a couple of projects in the pipeline, but I'm taking things slow for now and being choosy about the roles I take up. One thing I can assure you of is that you are going to see a lot of me!
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M.G.M. never really gave me a break. They loaned me out for leading roles but cast me in programme pictures.
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The kids can see that there are more parts to me than just being their mom; I wear a couple of different hats and have other roles to play.
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I enjoy roles that are quite physical.
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I'm a warrior when it comes to pursuing roles.
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2005 was a great year for me for fantastic roles that nobody saw.
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It was also a new role for me as a writer, because I wanted to just be there to serve Sam. I recognized that this picture would be "a Sam Fuller movie," and I was just trying, in whatever way I could, to help him get what he wanted.
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There are roles out there and women out there that are fascinating to me, and there are things in our culture that I see that I want to express. It's my passion to express that.
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I am lucky that the Western world chooses me to play roles in their movies an television, whatever language it may be.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Unfortunately I have no rags-to-riches story to tell. Money never played a big role for me. My parents just had it.
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It's a true testament to say that there are no small roles in Hollywood. People say, "Oh, I just said one line." or "I was walking in the background." Don't deny humble beginnings.
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What I love about 'Mockingjay, Part 1' is that President Coin or Cressida could have easily been played by a man, and if you look at 'Interstellar,' the Anne Hathaway or Jessica Chastain roles would have been men years ago.
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A lot of the time, in the past, I have played the pretty blonde in a lot of roles.
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You have to start with the notion that you pick the actor who's going to embody the role, the best person that you can find. If you don't start with that then it sort of defies the whole purpose of trying to make the best film that you can make.
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Mum asks why I am so often cast in adulterous roles. I think it must be because I am fairly flirty.
