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

I never played the right roles, or very rarely got the right roles offered, except on stage.
Maximilian Schell

I play a huge variety of roles.
Casper Van Dien

I played a real nasty little girl but most of the roles I had up until then were very sweet and very nice.
Morgan Brittany

I read the script, and I knew it was a good part. It was written for a white actor. That's what I'm up against - I have to try to make roles happen for me that aren't written black.
Gregory Hines

I really have no ulterior motive in taking on certain roles. I have no larger issue that I really want to show people. I'm an actor, that's all. I just do what I do.
Sally Field

I remember feeling that. I couldn't do, nor did I want to do, the kinds of roles I'd been doing.
Barbara Cook

I tend to turn down roles that are too much like me, what I think is most like me anyhow, because I'm me all the time and I'm sick of it.
Campbell Scott

I think male roles are generally much better written. So for actresses, we're always dealing with trying to inject a role with more truth than the writer possibly had in mind.
Judy Davis

I think that witnessing ecological problems visible from space is one of the new and essential roles of astronauts.
Philippe Perrin

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.
Sandra Oh

I think we're struggling with trying to redefine various positions at this point in history. To allow freedom for women, freedom for men, freedom from those sharply defined gender roles.
Fred Ward

I think, certainly in the more civilized societies, women's roles are growing in power all of the time.
Sally Quinn

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

I want to play an action hero. I'm ready for roles that totally aren't me.
Kirsten Dunst

I want to take roles that challenge me and I want to like the script and obviously feel connected with the director because the director to me is so important.
Amy Smart

I wanted to be on the stage, doing very important emotional roles.
Gloria Stuart

I was getting offers. I had just turned them down. Then I realized I should be grateful that at age 54, people were still offering me film roles.
Candice Bergen

I was in love with this character of Ray Krebbs. I wanted the part badly. I had done several Western films in my career at that point and there wasn't much opportunity then to play Western roles on television at that time.
Steve Kanaly

I was offered one of the roles in a big project that shall remain nameless. I thought the whole thing encouraged violent sex crimes toward women. It made horrible, ghastly rape violence seem sexy. I just didn't want to sign my name to it.
Mira Sorvino