Roles Quotes
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In my roles as Deputy State Treasurer and Special Assistant Attorney General, I strove to make government more responsive, transparent, efficient, and proactive.
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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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A critic often has to play the role of coroner, dissecting a work to find out why it died (or never lived).
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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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As an actor, I would call it a role where you get to stretch out a bit.
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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 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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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 love all my 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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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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I played teen roles until high definition came out.
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I'm not one of those actors who's very good at having a list of roles that I want to play someday - which is bad, because I really need to do it. I have people in theaters ask me what I want to do and I don't have an answer!
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I am obsessed with the idea of transformation. I have been very lucky so far to play very different roles - and I would love for that to continue.
Eugene Simon
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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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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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Government has a role as well in what is referred to as redistributive justice.
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I have been presented with roles with demand not just a physical ability but mental disciplines as well. 'Memoirs of a Geisha' was not so much about physical exertion...it was much more graceful and contained than that.
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My role in the Mamas and Papas was basically just to sing.
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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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If you're a realist, you know that people have different roles to play in politics, economics, and this is an important role, but I do think that there has to be an understanding of how what happens here on Wall Street has such broad consequences not just for the domestic but the global economy, so more thought has to be given to the process and transactions and regulations so that we don't kill or maim what works, but we concentrate on the most effective way of moving forward with the brainpower and the financial power that exists here.
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Somewhere out there is a unique place for you to help others - a unique life role for you to fill that only you can fill.
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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 do so many roles, I can't be typecast.
