Roles Quotes
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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 role of the intellectual, so it is said, is to speak truth to power. Noam Chomsky has dismissed this pious tag on two grounds. For one thing, power knows the truth already; it is just busy trying to conceal it. For another, it is not those in power who need the truth, but those they oppress.
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I am excited to be on set. I love what I do. As long as I have that feeling, then I'm gonna stick to it. As long as I'm lucky enough to get projects and keep working, I will always be grateful for it.
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I am not chocolate and definitely not a boy. I am a man, and I have no clue how this image has stuck to me despite all these years. I think, maybe, in spite of trying to shell off my chocolate boy image, love stories excite me, and somehow I land up in such roles.
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I do believe that it's something that we don't talk about, but when there are clearly defined gender roles, it is much simpler. Because you don't have to think, which people apparently don't like to do.
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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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I do so many roles, I can't be typecast.
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Television allowed me to kick the Hollywood habit of typing an actor in certain roles.
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I would love to do a period piece. That would be really cool. And also like to do something transformative and have to transform yourself physically to become that character. Any interesting, fun roles, I'm attracted to.
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I'm really into strong, female roles - but they don't have to necessarily be loud - I'm just as interested in introverts too.
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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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There are so many huge roles in the theatre: if you've got the option to play Hedda Gabler on stage, why wouldn't you choose that over a three-line part in a Hollywood film as somebody's maid or somebody's wife or somebody's best friend?
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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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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 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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I'm very thankful I'm finding my way, and people are excited to bring me into roles that demand a certain complexity.
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I thought it was a cool parallel. Being replaced by the young thing. I know that definitely happens in Hollywood. It's harder to find good roles, and suddenly there's new girls. I'm at that age I've been warned my whole life about.
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You become megastars when superstars start reprising your roles.
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A real subjection is born mechanically from a fictitious relation. He who is subjected to a field of visibility, and who knows it, assumes responsibility for the constraints of power; he makes them play spontaneously upon himself; he inscribed in himself the power relation in which he simultaneously plays both roles; he becomes the principle of his own subjection.
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Everytime I get offered theatre I get offered a film role too.
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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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If I'm a game show host, will someone buy a ticket to see me do standup? If I'm a game show host, will I get an offer to do a dramatic role in a movie?
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Little did I know that the sport I loved and the skills I learned would later play a role in my relationship with God.
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Blacks were systematically targeted to keep them off the voting roles. I think that we're a long way from saying the vote is protected by the federal government.
