Roles Quotes
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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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I try to do as many of my own stunts as possible. If you keep on taking yourself out of the role you play, you lose the thread of the character.
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I'd like to find great roles close to home and work on great projects while staying near my family. My family's the most important thing to me right now.
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I do try to look at scripts and keep an eye out for challenging roles.
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I choose my roles carefully.
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It's hard to win awards if there are no roles.
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I am a strange creature. I want to challenge myself and keep people guessing with the roles I take.
Eugene Simon -
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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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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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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From my side, I don't put pressure on the director to cater to a certain image. I am happy to do different films, and I have to stick by my director. I like to completely surrender myself to the director - that way, I think, I don't get to do the similar 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 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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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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There definitely have been a few roles that involved showing some skin but I'm not afraid of showing some skin from time to time. I mean the truth is, when I come home I take all my clothes off anyway so I'm kind of used to being naked.
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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.
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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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Certainly, old age is often incompatible with certain roles and responsibilities.
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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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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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There are not many good roles for women.
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I do believe in the power of story. I believe that stories have an important role to play in the formation of human beings, that they can stimulate, amaze and inspire their listeners.
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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.
