Roles Quotes
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I think acting is overrated. I'm not sure I enjoyed it. You never get to write your own roles. It's wonderful for some people, but I found it nerve-wracking. I was too busy worrying that no one would give me their words to speak.
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We understand that athletes aren't necessarily role models, but we at least expect them to abide by the basic laws of the state.
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I just try to play more and more difficult roles.
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I think that sometimes, as producers, we just service the artists who's really just the main front or person. You know, our roles are really just to help them get where they're supposed to go.
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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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I always look for roles that make me feel good about being a girl. I have to say that there are a lot of roles out there that make me feel really bad about being a girl. You can imagine what the things are and I shall not go into detail.
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The bigger the movies you're in, the chances are better at getting more diverse roles.
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I don't think guys inherently don't want to clean. I think the roles are most definitely changing, but I think in a good relationship, it's never been defined as 'a lady does this and a guy does this.' I think, in most working, healthy relationships, everybody does a little bit of everything.
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I have got one of those faces that change every day: you can dress me up, make me look vampy and then make me look 12 years old. But don't all women do this thing? We all take on these roles.
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I used to write on my resume that I was shorter than I was because I thought it would inhibit my roles, and as soon as I embraced that I am a tall female, I started getting really fantastic roles and really didn't even worry about wearing heels.
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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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As an actor, I would call it a role where you get to stretch out a bit.
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I remember I was like five or six years old; I played the devil. That was my first role.
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I do try to look at scripts and keep an eye out for challenging roles.
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The characters I have the least in common with are the ones I have the greatest success with. The further a role is from my own experience, the more I try to deepen it.
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I play a huge variety of roles
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There weren't roles for females in comedies for a really long time.
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I'm a character actress. It doesn't mean I can't do leading roles; I don't think of myself as a leading lady.
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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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I don't necessarily wait for that massive leading role. I want to keep the juices flowing.
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There are roles for all types of movies. I mean, you still want to watch the urban movies, and they need to be told. You still want to see something you haven't seen before.
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Religion obviously played a role in this book and the previous book, too.
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First of all, I choose the great roles, and if none of these come, I choose the mediocre ones, and if they don't come, I choose the ones that pay the rent.
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I think it's just growth, and development, timing. I've been fortunate to be around for a long time. Allowed me to get better as an actor. Allowed me to play better roles.
