Roles Quotes
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I like looking feminine and I enjoy being a role model. I enjoy being a woman. It all comes down to having the confidence to be who you are.
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I guess I'm attracted to these off beat roles because my life has been a bit abnormal.
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I take away something from every role. I'm still learning and that's what life is about.
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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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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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It took several years of hard work in small roles before I attained stardom.
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I don't really have preferred roles except those with some complexity.
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I've done different conventions and had smaller roles in different sci-fi things.
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You know, my role as Vice Chairman is a lot less tiring than playing matches every three days.
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As our society gets more complex and our people get more complacent, the role of the jester is more vital than ever before. Please stop sitting around. We need you to make a ruckus.
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When I work with filmmakers today, I'm really an advocate for the women's roles that I see, to make them as layered and as deep as possible. I think many of them are underwritten.
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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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All the best performers bring to their role something more, something different than what the author put on paper. That's what makes theatre live. That's why it persists.
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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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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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Therapy? I don't need that. The roles that I choose are my therapy.
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I am not chocolate and definitely not a boy. I am a man, and I have no clue how this image has stuck to me despite all these years. I think, maybe, in spite of trying to shell off my chocolate boy image, love stories excite me, and somehow I land up in such roles.
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You never know what you're in for when you take a role. When you're reading the script, you're in some café in New York and you're loving life and it sounds great because it's like reading a book. When you step into that book and you actually have to play it out, for real, it's a totally different ball game.
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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've been very lucky not to have turned down too many roles that I've later regretted.
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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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There are not that many roles in comedies that are completely driven by a young actress.
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You've got to pick your roles really carefully. It's a lot more fun to play a layered woman, than just someone where what you see is what you get, by far.
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The primary role of the music industry is to have artists be heard above the rest. It's a big needle in a haystack problem. The Internet has the service and tools to find the needle in a haystack.
