Roles Quotes

So, if you're doing good longform with talented people than you can step out and you can be the president or a construction worker and people accept that. It's really the roles you give yourself.
Amy Poehler

Good, Yourself, Give

You go up for hundreds, thousands of roles, and you get told no, no, no, so many times.
Chloe Moretz

Times, Thousands, Hundreds

I longed to break out of the system and do different roles.
Leslie Caron

Different, System, Break

You have actresses like Meryl Streep and Julia Roberts, who have roles specially written for them.
Leslie Caron

Written, Julia, Meryl

Emasculation does seem to be a theme in the roles that I choose.
Patrick Wilson

Choose, Seem, Theme

I love playing roles that are physical, absolutely love. Whether it's just that kind of basic level of physicality or whether it's stunts.
Ellen Page

Love, Playing, Whether

I think a lot of the time in films, men get roles where they create their own destiny and women are just tools, supporters for that.
Ellen Page

Time, Women, Men

I've been doing this since I was 10 years old, inhabiting different people and playing different roles.
Don Cheadle

Different, Old, Playing

So often when Black men have to play roles on TV, we're either the noble savage or we're completely a savage, and there's no nuance.
Don Cheadle

Men, Black, Play

I choose movies, I never choose roles. I look at the script. I look at the director. I look at the other actors - and then the role.
Elle Macpherson

Movies, Choose, Role

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

Show, Actor, Taking

More and more good actors are now transmigrating into the videogame space and playing roles there because it's where my generation of kids get stories from.
Andy Serkis

Good, Kids, Playing

My first job when I got my equity card was acting in 14 plays back-to-back. Playing that many roles, you look for ways of differentiating the characters physically, which goes hand in hand with understanding them psychologically.
Andy Serkis

Job, Acting, Playing

I like to do new things, so I always take on roles that I feel will keep me on my toes. I never want to pigeon myself, so I always like to surprise myself. I believe in versatility and so I would play anything as long as it was a challenge.
Archie Panjabi

Long, Play, Challenge

Acting is an art form and you want to take roles that are challenged and it's more of a challenge I think to play dark characters. Not that I want to always play those, but it is a challenge and challenges are rewarding and fun.
James Franco

Character roles definitely age better than your ingenues. You don't get to keep doing that.
Catherine O'Hara

Age, Character, Keep

Throughout my career I've played a lot of parts that might've been played by a man. They're human roles rather than specifically men or women. I've never been as hooked into that as a lot of women are, you know, like, 'There aren't enough roles for women.' There aren't necessarily a lot of good roles for anybody.
Edie Falco

Good, Women, Men

You can never be guaranteed good roles because of an award, but I think your profile and net worth as a performer has to do with awards, unfortunately.
Minnie Driver

Good, Worth, Awards

I always look for reality. I look for plain truthful roles.
Jim Caviezel

Reality, Truthful, Plain

What I really want to do is create great roles for women. And I'm not talking Nicholas Sparks romance. I think women's roles have gotten ghettoized in these sort of places... I'm thinking women in action, comic books, or like the Tony Soprano of women. We need some complex roles.
Melissa Rosenberg

Women, Great, Thinking

I think going into 'New Moon,' I knew the characters better. I knew the world better and I knew the actors who would be playing these roles. I had a sense of their rhythms and tones. 'Twilight' I was writing in a vacuum. We hadn't cast it yet.
Melissa Rosenberg

Writing, Sense, Playing

Being an actor gives you a chance to play all kinds of roles, very moving and dramatic on one project, silly and girlish on another. That's the most interesting thing out this business, you get to keep reinventing yourself.
Sarah Michelle Gellar

Business, Yourself, Moving

I find more interesting roles for women in period pieces. I do personally like watching period films; I think you can really get lost in the fantasy of them.
Keira Knightley

Women, Lost, Find

And the first commandment of feminism is: I am woman; thou shalt not tolerate strange gods who assert that women have capabilities or often choose roles that are different from men's.
Phyllis Schlafly

Women, Men, Woman

I'm drawn to roles that have real substance, that aren't just the victim or the teenage girl or the girlfriend.
Lily Collins

Girl, Real, Girlfriend

There are some older women out there who are just knockouts, real beauties, and they're not getting the roles they should.
William H. Macy

Women, Real, Getting

I don't pick my roles by genre; that's kind of silly.
Michael Shannon

Silly, Pick, Genre

I'm really into strong, female roles - but they don't have to necessarily be loud - I'm just as interested in introverts too.
Jessica Brown Findlay

Strong, Interested, Female

I played teen roles until high definition came out, and I could never understand it. I would go in for adult roles and be older than many of the people auditioning, but they'd cast the girl without a line on her face.
Selma Blair

Teen, Girl, Understand

Perhaps I have managed some sort of longevity because I haven't won the lead roles. I don't have the pressure of being a world-famous bombshell that has detonated.
Selma Blair

Won, Pressure, Lead

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