Roles Quotes

• 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.

  

  Winona Ryder
  • Stories
  • Roles
  • Actress

• 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.

  

  Nicole Kidman
  • Chance
  • Jump
  • Piece

• What I normally do as an actor in playing different roles, I just have to do in a span of three seconds sometimes, so I think I'm lucky that I've been doing it so long that I can do it rather quickly.

  

  Evan Rachel Wood
  • Actor
  • Roles
  • Span

• Religion obviously played a role in this book and the previous book, too.

  

  Studs Terkel
  • Book
  • Religion
  • Roles

• No, Not even remotely...Because I don't care. I don't pick roles based on how famous they are going to make me, I pick roles based on how they're going to inspire me intellectually.

  

  Erin Daniels
  • Roles
  • Inspire
  • Picks

• I was in love with this character of Ray Krebbs. I wanted the part badly. I had done several Western films in my career at that point and there wasn't much opportunity then to play Western roles on television at that time.

  

  Steve Kanaly
  • Character
  • Opportunity
  • Play

• It is challenging and hard not to accept all stereotypical roles that get thrown your way. For me, I've been really, really lucky because I have been able to play a lot of different parts.

  

  Noureen DeWulf
  • Different
  • Play
  • Roles

• 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.

  

  Michael C. Hall
  • Interesting
  • Roles
  • Convince

• I've really been blessed to have these roles in movies that will last forever.

  

  Steven Ford
  • Forever
  • Movies
  • Roles

• 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!

  

  Michael Cerveris
  • Actors
  • Answers
  • Theater

• One of the reasons why I fought for my roles is that I think there are so many things about them that are just human, but people like to label them as weird or bad or wrong because they're scared of them. I don't consider them bad - they're girls. They're going to make mistakes, but the films show the repercussions and show that they're going to learn. A lot of people are made to feel bad for being sad, so on top of already being unhappy, you're gonna hate yourself for it.

  

  Evan Rachel Wood
  • Learn
  • Mistakes
  • Scared

• 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.

  

  Milana Vayntrub
  • Because
  • Roles
  • Then

• I've always seen myself for who I am, which is a lot of things. So, I guess that when I walk into a room, I bring all those things to a role, and I've always just simply seen myself as an actor.

  

  Viola Davis
  • Actors
  • Rooms
  • Walks

• I'm an actor in that I just want to create roles and characters and play parts that people remember and like or dislike or hate.

  

  Eric Stonestreet
  • Remember
  • Actor
  • Create

• I do feel, like everyone, there's not enough female directors out there, there's not enough female producers, and would like to see more people get more opportunity, more opportunity for roles for women.

  

  Barbara Crampton
  • Women
  • Opportunity
  • Directors

• I am a strange creature. I want to challenge myself and keep people guessing with the roles I take.

  Eugene Simon
  • Challenge
  • Roles
  • Creature

• When you choose to do a role, I think you can either be that person or have the potential of being that person.

  

  Mia Maestro
  • Thinking
  • Persons
  • Roles

• It's often women who are writing leading roles for women. Most of the stuff that comes my way is not actually about women. I'm just asked to be a supporting player in a story about a man, and I, frankly, was not interested in doing that.

  

  Carrie Coon
  • Men
  • Writing
  • Player

• Micro managing anything is not a great role for government.

  

  William Weld
  • Government
  • Roles

• I hated being typecast in those roles. It was personally limiting, only playing stereotyped heavies. But I got those roles because I was angry, because that's what I projected. I was angry at my mother and father because they didn't get along, angry at the church. On top of that, I had an extreme lack of self-confidence.

  

  Harry Dean Stanton
  • Church
  • Self-confidence
  • Typecast

• I play a huge variety of roles

  

  Casper Van Dien
  • Play
  • Variety
  • Huge

• Little did I know that the sport I loved and the skills I learned would later play a role in my relationship with God.

  

  Clint Dempsey
  • Play
  • Sports
  • Knows

• In my roles as Deputy State Treasurer and Special Assistant Attorney General, I strove to make government more responsive, transparent, efficient, and proactive.

  

  Raja Krishnamoorthi
  • Government
  • Roles
  • Responsive

• 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.

  

  Sullivan Stapleton
  • Guy
  • Play
  • Caught

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