Roles Quotes
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Everything changes with age. The parts change with age, your feelings about them change, roles that I would've wanted to play 10 years ago, I don't want to play now.
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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 think that's actually what draws me to family stories: the various roles we each play with each member of our families, and how different they can be from who we are with our friends and partners and lovers. I'm endlessly fascinated by how we navigate these family dynamics; they are the dramas each of us live out day after day, often in ways we don't even realize.
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Creating my own roles, as an actor, is great. You're so at the mercy of other people, and you're waiting for a job. That's just a horrible way to live, so I just decided to take matters into my own hands, find my own projects, and create them myself, and then do other stuff that people might throw my way as well.
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I've been exploring gender performativity in the Gulf since I was a teenager. I'm not a gender anthropologist, but I feel like there's an extreme binary between femininity and masculinity in the Gulf. From a young age, I knew I didn't want to be part of it. Gender is a huge gray area, and the problem with defined roles is that they cover up undefined ones.
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I don't really have preferred roles except those with some complexity.
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What's impressive to me is how (Illinois) plugged into their roles and identity of that basketball team. What is our identity What end of the court Who is doing it How are we going to win games
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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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Real equality in films is going to take time and will directly reflect our society. So ladies, please speak up at home, at work, at school, everywhere. As more women continue to find their place in Hollywood we have to keep pushing for more dynamic and strong women's roles.
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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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That's one thing that attracts me to roles the most - how much potential there is for me to learn from it.
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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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The whole point of being an actor is to get satisfaction out of a role -- unless you're just vain about celebrity. You're always looking for the one thing that will surprise you.
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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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I'm attracted to strong female roles: females that aren't necessarily defined by their relationships with men.
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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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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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I don't consciously try to be a role model, so I don't know if I am or not. That's for other people to decide.
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I came in thinking about Bobby Ewing, but I love this Ray Krebbs role.
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My job is to play many different roles with all sorts of different backgrounds and orientations.
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I'm always just drawn to those roles that present one way and have many other things going on underneath. It's just more fun to play as an actor.
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The first thing you do is sit down with your wife and say something like this, Honey, I've made a terrible mistake. I've given you my role. I gave up leading this family. ... I'm not suggesting that you ask for your role back, I'm urging you to take it back ... Be sensitive. Listen. Treat the lady gently and lovingly. But lead!
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I have been given a lot of roles that are downtrodden, mammy-ish.
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Theater actors like to change character roles. They don't like to always do the same thing.
