Roles Quotes
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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 do intelligent roles. I don't want to be labeled as doing silly movies. I'm more mature than kids my age because I'm constantly surrounded by adults.
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Sometimes I get into the movies and into the roles; it's hard for me to move on.
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I'm drawn to roles that people don't think I'm right for.
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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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People are incapable of stereotyping you; you stereotype yourself because you're the one who accepts roles that put you in this rut or in this stereotype.
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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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Eventually I booked a 2-line role on a show called 'JAG' and slowly the parts got bigger and better. I'm very thankful that I had to appreciate how difficult the business is before I had any kind of success.
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You can't say that we need to give women more roles, and then when we do, say that they're only there because men want to look at them.
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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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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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I am not an actress who only wants to do lead roles.
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I do so many roles, I can't be typecast.
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These same people seem to forget that mother also took a lot of chances with the type of roles she played.
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Our lives are a mixture of different roles. Most of us are doing the best we can to find whatever the right balance is . . . For me, that balance is family, work, and service.
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I've had some physically challenging roles.
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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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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 played a lot of younger, more coming-of-age roles as well as roles that aren't such an imposing physical presence.
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People see me in powerful roles. That's what people want to see. That's what I want to do.
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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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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.
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As we create synergy among the roles of our lives, there's more of us to put into the time we have.
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I only know how to play one role: me.
