Roles Quotes

I often do very serious roles, but really I am a big clown.
Rose Byrne

Big, Serious, Often

The way I look at - speaking as a woman - I understand what it means to be a daughter, and to be a wife, and to be a mother, and also to be a career woman. The multiple roles that women can play in a society if given the opportunity is really a tremendous asset.
Margaret Chan

Women, Society, Mother

It wasn't my intention in going after this part but I suppose now I do. The adult roles are a lot meatier - you're not always just the daughter or the girlfriend or whatever.
Emmy Rossum

After, Girlfriend, Whatever

The more comedic roles come easier to me though because I see myself as a silly, easy-going person.
Sara Paxton

Person, Though, Silly

Today's global landscape is increasingly interconnected. China and the Middle East play critical roles towards international peace and security.
Rick Larsen

Peace, Today, Play

I want to get away from the high school thing and do other types of roles.
Shannon Elizabeth

School, Away, High

People have all these preconceptions about me. Whereas if you look at the roles, Henry Hill was the nicest guy in 'Goodfellas!' I was a nice guy too in the comedy 'Heartbreakers.' And I was a really sweet father to Johnny Depp in 'Blow!'
Ray Liotta

Nice, Father, Sweet

But a writer's contribution is literary and a film is not literary. When you take that stuff off the page, and cast the people who are going to fit into those roles, that's what being a director is.
Taylor Hackford

Off, Film, Stuff

I've always done roles that really appealed to me on a gut level and which I found inspiring.
Jennifer Jason Leigh

Done, Found, Level

I went to drama school in Paris and started doing theatre with a friend. Then I moved into movies and slowly but surely I got roles.
Jean Reno

Movies, School, Friend

I try to avoid typecasting by doing different roles.
Michael Clarke Duncan

Different, Try, Avoid

I love acting it's apart of me and I try to put a little bit of myself in each of my roles.
Michael Clarke Duncan

That's the great thing about being an actor, you get to try out lots of things for your roles.
Bruce Boxleitner

Great, Try, Actor

After doing so many different roles, if you don't stretch yourself, there's no excitement left.
Christine Lahti

Yourself, Different, After

I most often land up taking up the roles that I most detest.
Christine Lahti

Often, Taking, Land

It's nice, though, getting older and being able to do different roles.
Luke Wilson

Nice, Different, Able

I like to think I've done a lot of different kinds of roles, but obviously I have done quite a lot of comedies.
Luke Wilson

Done, Different, Quite

I've had to fight for roles and I've lost a hundred roles, but 'Smoking' and 'Smith' were phone calls. That's the dream.
Adam Brody

Fight, Lost, Dream

Well, I have a couple of projects in the pipeline, but I'm taking things slow for now and being choosy about the roles I take up. One thing I can assure you of is that you are going to see a lot of me!
Natasha Henstridge

Taking, Couple, Slow

Once I got married and had kids, I moved away from romantic roles, because it seemed wrong to have my 3-year-old wondering why Daddy was kissing someone else.
Chevy Chase

Romantic, Someone, Why

However, I'm at a very comfortable place in my career and celebrity, in that I don't have to audition as extensively as I used to for roles but yet I'm not immediately recognizable.
Claire Danes

Career, Place, Used

My roles don't centre around drugs at all! Shadiness is different - it's drama. We're making movies! You've gotta have conflict.
Timothy Olyphant

Movies, Different, Around

I need to make sure that I'm taking roles that I feel like I can communicate through.
Jennifer Carpenter

Through, Sure, Taking

The reality is that there are so few roles out there for women and for women of color, and I'm a character actor, this I know. And I'm getting to see more of the roles that are out there, but there aren't many. And zilch have been studio movies. Zilch.
Octavia Spencer

Women, Movies, Character

I feel there is no shortage of real interesting women's roles. But I found them and did all of them just now.
Maggie Gyllenhaal

Women, Real, Found

I was very willing to take on controversial roles that people didn't really want to look at.
Rosie Perez

I loved working with Valerie. That was the most wonderful revelation to find that when we are on a set and we're playing our roles, we're like separated twins. We can almost finish each other's dialogue.
Mary Tyler Moore

Find, Working, Wonderful

I think it is important for people who are given leadership roles to assume that role immediately.
Bob Iger

Leadership, Important, Role

I don't want to do romantic roles where I have to lip sync to a song. A role that explores romance on a new level would suit me.
Irrfan Khan

Romantic, Song, Level

I am lucky that the Western world chooses me to play roles in their movies an television, whatever language it may be.
Irrfan Khan

Movies, May, Play

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