Roles Quotes
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I guess I have been playing similar roles with similar personalities — including Yu-ri in ‘Road Family’ my characters have usually been a bit down and calm.
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Being of tall stature, it's rare to get a series regular role.
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So there's no such thing as one too many this, one too many that. I remember, you're reminding me of early in my career, somebody said to me: why are you taking so many roles as a policeman.
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All the roles I play, I don't see any of my roles in films that they're typically leading men.
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I've been to unpretty places with the roles I've played, and I'm attracted to reckless abandon. I like being taken to the edge of my own abyss.
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I sort of latch onto roles that have something to fight against.
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Yes. I was the first female colonel. I enjoyed being that kind of role model for young women watching the show. A woman can be a colonel! A woman can be in charge! Those were new ideas then.
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Why do we insist women are cast 10 years younger than the role they're playing? Men don't know what a 30-year-old is supposed to look like because on TV she's always 20.
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It is very essential as an actor to be a perfectionist and have a knack for doing different roles over a period of time to keep their fans entertained.
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What I learned was there's no roles for women who won't be in their 40s. For women who will be in their 40s, there's a ton of work.
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I've had some physically challenging roles.
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For a bill to become law, it truly has to be the will of the people, and for a president to stop the will of the people and stop what you're trying to do in your state is not the role of Washington.
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I've been propositioned by men who were in a position to cast me. I lost a few roles because I didn't give in.
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the one thing I've observed over the years is the best way to get an actor to not want to play a certain role is to offer it to them. That makes them say, "Well, maybe it's not that good. These guys don't want me to do this..."
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My biggest thing about being a role model is whatever I'm preaching, I'm practicing.
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I'd rather do a lot of movies than a TV series and do a lot of different roles than be stuck in one TV thing.
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I don't think about competition. I am definitely attracted to not just playing a regular character - I don't know there's any such thing as "regular. In American Crime, I get to play a runaway who's living with her pimp in North Carolina and she's a prostitute, but she's a victim of human trafficking because she's under 18. I like those roles. That's what I wanted; I wanted to play someone that was a challenge.
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The truth is despite the hard work and juggling required to keep the different facets of the frantic life afloat, the "superwoman"has one marvelous compensation. Being busy and being seen to be busy lets you off the hook. Buys you a way out of all aspects of your many roles you secretly despiselike cleaning cupboardsor entertaining your husband's business friends. When you combine wife, mother, career and all, each role become the perfect excuse for avoiding the worst aspects of the other.
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Our role in Israel is a pioneering one, and we need people with certain strength of fiber.
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I don't take roles I can't respect. If I can't find a reason to be respectful of the character, I won't do it because I couldn't do it justice.
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The role of the teacher remains the highest calling of a free people.
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I used to do a lot of repertory theater. You're playing different roles all the time, and I love that.
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It's not just me. People are in their roles, and they've stayed in them all year.
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As an actress, you go where the stories are. I don't really care where it's seen, at this point. I just want to tell good stories and do good roles that I haven't done before.
