Roles Quotes
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I can't worry about whether roles will be there for me when I'm older.
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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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I still reject lead roles, as I don't accept any role if I don't find it challenging enough. I am very careful while making selections.
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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 think male roles are generally much better written. So for actresses, we're always dealing with trying to inject a role with more truth than the writer possibly had in mind.
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I single handedly revolutionised women's roles in the WWE, before me all women were eye candy.
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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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Squeezing yourself to ooze out the last ounce of sex allure is terribly hard. I'd like to do roles like Julie in Bury the Dead, Gretchen in Faust and Teresa in Cradle Song.
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I think that as actresses - and I've definitely gone through this in a really bizarre way, because I worked so much and was really lucky with the roles that I got when I was younger - I remember hearing the older actors saying, "It gets tough," and thinking, "Really? I can't imagine."
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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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I sort of latch onto roles that have something to fight against.
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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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Our role in Israel is a pioneering one, and we need people with certain strength of fiber.
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We are a different team. I don't know if it's a better or what it is, but it's different and it's different roles.
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You know, my role as Vice Chairman is a lot less tiring than playing matches every three days.
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Everytime I get offered theatre I get offered a film role too.
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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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When I have to play the same role every day, I have the flexibility to play the character in so many different ways. It's almost like playing five different roles.
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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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With any medium you are working in, technical skills obviously help, but your mind is what you really need to expand. That is how you create work. That's the role of the artist - to change the way you view things.
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My philosophy has always been to try to put myself into roles and films that are different. That intensified after 'Lord of the Rings' because it was so massive, but it's something I've always believed in, wanting to change people's perceptions and challenge myself as an actor.
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I've talked to a number of actors who have gained weight for roles, and just the sheer physical toll it puts on one's knees and shoulders - no one wants to do it again. I'm 57 and I don't think I'm going to take on any job or go on vacation again and see to it that I can gain 30 pounds.
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There are some jobs that you go for because achieving them would take your career in a direction that you would like it to go, but mostly, I want to play the roles and have had the great good fortune and opportunities to play some fantastic roles and been very, very fortunate.
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But with the steady disintegration of the family in modern society over the last century, the role of the school in bridging the gap has become vital!
