Roles Quotes
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Playing our parts. Yes, we all have to do that and from childhood on, I have found that my own character has been much harder to play worthily and far harder at times to comprehend than any of the roles I have portrayed.
Bette Davis
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Shut your role and know your mouth.
Mick Foley
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I like the character roles. Somewhere back there I really came to the conclusion in my mind that the difference between acting and stardom was major. And that if you become a star, people are going to go to see you. If you remain an actor, they're going to go and see the story you're in.
Morgan Freeman
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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.
Summer Glau
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I don't put the pressure on myself to be a very successful movie star. I want to enjoy being an actor and I want to be challenged by the roles I take.
Thandie Newton
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I wish writing was a talent that I had. I've tried. Unfortunately, I'm just not talented in the writing department. But, if I was, I would just write complicated roles for women because there's a lack of them.
Eva Mendes
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You have to take an active role in making yourself happy. That's why I say happiness is a choice. Because you have to choose it.
Shay Carl
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I choose my roles carefully.
Catherine Deneuve
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With film roles, it just has to be a character either I haven't done before, or a role with somebody really interesting or with an interesting person or group of people.
Robin Williams
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I'm always nervous taking on a period role because it's difficult to research - you can't observe it, go out and see it. But it's satisfying because eventually you think, 'I got there.
Shirley Henderson
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It's quite hard to find a ballsy or complex character. So the roles I've taken are those. Lot's of people put me in the dark category.
Eva Green
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All my characters are me. I'm not a good enough actor to become a character. I hear about actors who become the role and I think 'I wonder what that feels like.' Because for me, they're all me.
Ryan Gosling
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I don't think I could keep my position as a well-standing man in the world if I thought there were roles for men and women.
Eric Stonestreet
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There are not many good roles for women.
Eva Green
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In Israel, the role of the writer is dictated by the language in which you write. Writers see themselves as cultural prophets.
Etgar Keret
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You don't get the good roles when you're beautiful.
Eva Longoria
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I can't dance like Hrithik Roshan. I don't have the necessary glamour like some of the other actors do. They are able to sell themselves on that aspect. I do roles and films which are very realistic. So, in those films, if you don't get into the skin of it, they won't look convincing.
R. Madhavan
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I think their pasts are treated with a voice that sees their role as those of innocents. That's reflected in the past time sequences. They're less "written."
Chang-Rae Lee