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When I take a role I wonder how I can use it to find out who I really am. I don't think I'm so rare a person.
I was lucky enough to have a plethora of types of roles before and during the horror movie part of my career.
I'd rather do a lot of movies than a TV series and do a lot of different roles than be stuck in one TV thing.
I feel there is no shortage of real interesting women's roles. But I found them and did all of them just now.
A greater international role is important to lift some of the burden from the shoulders of the United States.
All actors are looking for that role that's going to define who they are. When it happens, it's a good thing.
Parents are flawed human beings who are given a role that more approximates that of God than of mere mortals.
It's nice to be given a role where you can really find the strength from within, as a woman, and to be heard.
The films that I do are deep, introspective, brooding roles that you're in this heavy headspace all the time.
I'm just trying to find a good project. Work with a good director, someone I really admire. Find a good role.
What I love to do requires portraying different characters, and you have to separate your life from the role.
I always have roles with a depressing childhood for some reason. I have a nice childhood, so I don't know why.
Today's films are so technological that an actor becomes starved for roles that deal with human relationships.
People sometimes say, "What is your dream role?" I don't really have a dream role. I'll know it when I see it.
My favorite roles usually have to do with the story, if it's a good story I usually enjoy doing the character.
I had to learn how to modulate my performances and interpretations of these roles in auditions for the camera.
I never talk about auditions. Even if I've got the role, I won't tell people until we're literally filming it.
Society created the prison in its own image; will history, with its penchant for paradox, reverse those roles?
I come from a huge theater background. The whole action and stunt world just came as the roles were available.
I'm concerned about the role the court will play in protecting individual rights in this and the next century.
Even though these days I'm very selective about what roles I want to do, I will do Stargate anytime they call.
Erica Kane was a spectacular role for any actress to play, and I felt so lucky to be the one who got to do it.
I had a good theater career for years. I played Hamlet when I was 22, and I've played some really great roles.
Boyhood proves that there's still good roles for women over 40, as long as you get hired when you're under 40.
We're all clichés, all following scripts that have been written and played out long before we landed the role.
We want to be seen as more than just martial artists, or bad stereotype token roles in American TV and movies.
I've thought about doing other dramatic roles besides westerns, but I grew up in the West and I know the West.
I've tried to take the opportunity to be as positive a person as I can be, as positive role model as I can be.
I've always found a cornucopia of roles open to me. Wait--did I just say cornucopia? I think I meant plethora.
We actors always say how difficult and physically demanding a role was. But give me a break, it's only a movie.
The role of art for me is the visualization of attitude, of the human attitude towards life, towards the world.
I know that my look is more "toothpaste model" as opposed to artsy, which sucks because I can play those roles.
I'm still an angry dude. I'm just older. I still push the band to be heavy and dark-that's always been my role.
With America's role in the world, we have the ability to help protect the freedom of religion around the globe.
In western countries, there are roles written for older actors. Films are made on them, including love stories.
When you choose to do a role, I think you can either be that person or have the potential of being that person.
As a country and as a world, we are not comfortable with women in leadership roles. We call little girls bossy.
I think every role is always exciting and intimidating. I've never had a role where I wasn't intimidated by it.
The roles... the deep roles that I've gotten to play have turned my course. They've changed my life experience.
If you look weird, you can blame the role, you know? So no one's going to tell me I'm having a mid-life crisis.
I like to think I've done a lot of different kinds of roles, but obviously I have done quite a lot of comedies.
Good roles are hard to come by, and whether they're a few lines or a lead, you snap 'em up when they come along
My dream role is to play in a story of how the Joker became the Joker, and I would play the young Heath Ledger.
I want, through my roles, to express the parts in the hearts of Chinese women that they feel unable to let out.
I'm not trying to top anything. I'm trying to be useful, to play a positive role, to serve the public interest.
A fundamental role in the renewal of society is played, of course, by the family and especially by young people.
The progression of roles you take strings together a portrait of an actor, but it's a completely random process.
I sometimes imagine that as one grows older one comes to live a role which as a young person one merely 'played.
Theater, because of the commitment, it has to be a great role and a great play to me. It takes a lot out of you.
My young face keeps me in the running for youthful roles. If my face is going to look 22 then so should my body.