Roles Quotes
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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.
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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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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 would love to play Simon Cowell in a movie - heck, I would love it. It would be my dream role.
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I have no acting technique I act instinctively. That's why I can't play any role that isn't based on something in my life.
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If you don't question the officials' role then you've got to ask what they are doing
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Each role has its own different challenges.
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I want to work with people that frighten me and excite me, and characters that I don't believe I'm the best person for the part but I'm still gonna try anyway. Those are my favorite roles.
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Some roles are easier to choose, some roles are more difficult because they are more daring. Sometimes you have to dare.
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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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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.
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No, I like being a role model because I know how much comfort my musical idols brought me.
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I do try to look at scripts and keep an eye out for challenging roles.
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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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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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A good role comes along, and a good role is a good role.
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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.
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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.
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There are others who take up that liberating role. I have no time to spend for that.
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I just try to play more and more difficult roles.
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I never get the tall, blonde, glamorous roles because I'm not tall, blonde and glamorous. I'm more the wee, disturbing characters because of the way I look or sound.
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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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Character roles definitely age better than your ingenues. You don't get to keep doing that.
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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.
