Roles Quotes
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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.
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I like the way that different people recognise me for the roles I done
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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.
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I play a huge variety of roles
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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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I had a dual role: designer and advocate.
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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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We lost some really good senior leaders, so a lot of those new guys are going to have to step up and fill those roles.
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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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I love all my roles.
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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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When you choose to do a role, I think you can either be that person or have the potential of being that person.
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I don't want to limit myself. I want to keep doing all sorts of roles. I guess what lies behind this urge is the conviction that movies have changed my life. And certain performances have inspired me to try to be someone different.
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At drama school, I always picked the really evil roles. It's a great way to deal with your everyday emotions.
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Some roles require a building from the foundation up; it really doesn't come to you easily.
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I try to stay away from the L.A. scene as much as possible. I feel it helps me to better prepare for my roles if I am not too involved in that whole thing.
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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 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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When you put a group of actors together who get along, and we have since day one, they don't become like their roles. What tends to happen is their age disappears and they all deal with each other as friends.
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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've sort of left the theater just for little shoots here and there - little one-off series or small roles in films or whatever.
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I usually feel like the role comes to you to sort of illuminate some piece of where you are in your life. I feel like I myself am a single woman and I'm childless - by choice - at this point, and I don't know what will happen.
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[Hillary Clinton] is hinted a little bit about what his Bill Clinton role might be, but just a little bit.
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I've always played different kinds of roles, and I probably played more vulnerable parts when I was really young.
