Roles Quotes
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I love taking on roles that other people have written for me just as much as I take on writing - just not as much of a, Oh, that guy. I want people to start saying, Oh, Brett Gelman's new piece is coming out. That's a Brett Gelman movie. That's a a Brett Gelman show.
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Most of the roles that I go for are Americans, so the first thing I had to do was pin down the American accent - which is obviously in 'Blue Crush 2.'
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It's funny because when I first met with Carmen, she said, "Have you ever thought about doing TV?" And I was like, "No, not really, but I'd audition for TV." And she said, "That's where the roles are for women now. That's where you can go and get a really great part."
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I only know how to play one role: me.
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Traumatized people are terrified to feel deeply. They are afraid to experience their emotions, because emotions lead to loss of control. In contrast, theater is about embodying emotions, giving voice to them, becoming rhythmically engaged, taking on and embodying different roles.
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Being of tall stature, it's rare to get a series regular role.
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Music played a large role in the survival of the black people in America — that and a sense of humor that just couldn't be enslaved.
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I have led the way for moving women from traditional roles to strategic positions and inspired girls and women throughout Africa to seek leadership positions.
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I just try to play more and more difficult roles.
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Guest roles are how you get initiated into the industry. It's fun. Over the course of a few years you realise you've done many shows. You get a chance to prove yourself, and that's how you get jobs because of people who have worked with you in the past and trust you.
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I won't be satisfied with only commercial roles.
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I was so spoiled in a way. I worked very hard, but there was just a wealth of great roles.
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In a very real sense, there are only two roles in organisations: customers and suppliers. Everybody functions simultaneously in both roles, whether inside or outside the organisation the essence of good business, therefore, is the quality of the relationship between customer and supplier.
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I was brought to this team to take on different roles and do whatever I needed to do to help win a championship. I understood that.
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It's very, very rare to find five roles in one piece where we'd all jump at the chance to play any of them.
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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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I'm not intimidated by lead roles. I'm better in them. I don't feel pressure. I feel released at times like that. That's what I'm born to do.
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Pain is pain, joy is joy - you can't avoid bringing pieces of yourself into a role.
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It's interesting to play a role where you don't really have to preoccupy yourself with any need to convince yourself that you're not acting.
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Only while they are conforming their actions to the model of some archetypal hero do the Arunta feel that they are truly alive, for in those roles they are immortal. The occasions on which they slip from such molds are quite meaningless, for time immediately devours those occasions and reduces them to nothingness.
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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 started here in Australia, playing a lot of roles but never the lead guy in shows here. I always tended to play the rougher guy, the criminal who gets caught or shot by the cops. Or the boyfriend from the wrong side of the tracks.
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The way I go about choosing roles is basically by just trying to pick the complete opposite of the last thing I did, or if it has someone else who I really have wanted to work with.
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I no longer take on everything offered. Instead, I go up for roles I like, things that I would enjoy watching, stories that I want to tell.
