Roles Quotes
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The more comedic roles come easier to me though because I see myself as a silly, easy-going person.
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It is the role of the poet to look at what is happening in the world and to know that quite other things are happening.
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There's an idea about who I am that's eternally projected onto me, and then I almost feel like I have to fulfill that role. Even when things come out of my mouth, I want to be sure I'm saying exactly what I mean.
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You cannot win an Emmy for roles that are simply not there.
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The most immediate task is to make certain that no state or combination of states gains the capacity to expel the United States from Eurasia or even to diminish significantly its decisive arbitration role.
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I think the roles in television are better for women right now. At this point, I don't want to continue doing the same things I've been doing in film because it's very limited.
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If a person is right for a role, I don't care where they got their training.
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The media sells it and you live the role.
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A concern with parenting...must direct attention beyond behavior. This is because parenting is not simply a set of behaviors, but participation in an interpersonal, diffuse, affective relationship. Parenting is an eminently psychological role in a way that many other roles and activities are not.
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It's true that I'm drawn to unusual stories. Normal roles don't really attract me.
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Of all the roles I've done on the stage, I'm partial to Cyrano de Bergerac.
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The only thing I wouldn't like to do is to play roles as a musician. I'm not sure that I would be comfortable doing that, and I'm not sure I'd be very good at it. I think I would be better served, and would be a better partner, if I was in something outside of myself.
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I love making movies, and being in any that I can be in. I'd like to be in those giant movies, as the fifth or sixth lead, and have three or four killer scenes. You don't have the responsibility of the entire movie being on you. I like those roles. I'm shooting for the middle.
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I traveled and worked with amazing actors, like Andy Garcia, Alec Baldwin, Brendan Fraser, Forest Whitaker, Lee Pace. It was this great learning experience. And then, I started watching a lot of television. I was always in these foreign countries and I would get TV shows on DVD, and I started to realize that all of the amazing roles for women were on television. I was spoiled by Buffy because I thought that was the way it was everywhere, and it's not.
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There were so many things that were wrong (against West Virginia). We just have to re-define our roles a little, do what we have to do and how we can do it.
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Theater actors like to change character roles. They don't like to always do the same thing.
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I haven't always played nice guys. In 'Gremlins,' I was a conceited, pompous braggart, and I was a redneck chauvinist in the TV movie 'A Matter of Sex.' But I really prefer sympathetic roles.
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It's hard to find black roles that are just whimsical and fun and colorful. And I think, in many ways, that can be just as powerful in making commentary about race through movies.
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I'd love to play more challenging roles, characters that would stretch my comfort zone and imagination.
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My job is to play many different roles with all sorts of different backgrounds and orientations.
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When you're a musician and you go out onstage, and you're someone who loves attention, you are going to become a role model to some extent.
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I don't really have preferred roles except those with some complexity.
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I definitely don't look my age, ... So I actively look for roles that will help people change their perception of me.
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Therapy? I don't need that. The roles that I choose are my therapy.
