Quotes About Challenges

You try to go where the great scripts are, if you can, or you go where the not great scripts are, because that's what's being offered to you.

I'm either offered window-dressing parts in large movies or little art films no one ever sees. People think the movies I end up doing are my real choices. I do the best things I'm offered.

I've become one of those actors who find it difficult to say 'no' when things are offered.

The 'boy next door' parts I get offered, I don't find interesting.

It's harder in the States. I'm much more inclined to get offered things that are a lot straighter and heavier and dramatic. And they go by looks, too. If you look like a leading man, then that's what they will consider you for.

In America, I am brown; I'm 'of colour', so I would be offered Latin roles, and I've fought against that. I don't want to be put in a category, to be just offered the same sort of thing. For me, it's all about different roles, telling the stories of the great writers.

I keep getting offered these women-with-a-disease things.

If you're a sexy actress, it's hard to get serious roles. You get offered the same thing they've seen you in. People are like sheep, and they're like, 'Oh, that's what she does well.'

I was offered 10-12 films during the time that we were working on 'Paani.'

Coming off 'House of Cards,' playing someone so straight-laced, I was getting offered a lot of F.B.I. agents.

After the first 'Hedwig,' interestingly, I was offered to play Hamlet a couple of times.

As black women, we're miles behind our white counterparts in being offered the space to create and craft female characters in major blockbuster films.

For whole swaths of people, that map of, 'Come along this way, come to college, do this and that,' isn't offered.

I was offered a lot of romantic and comedy films.

Actors are at the mercy of roles that are offered.

Once you get into your 40s, you're no longer leading-lady age. Generally, those roles get offered to women in their 20s and 30s.

I just get offered a lot more work in America than I do in Britain.

I have been offered a lot of films with many big actors, but I have unfortunately declined them.

When you get offered the captaincy, you've got to have a go. In India, where it went well, I was playing well ,and anything that needed doing, I'd do it myself. When I wasn't playing well, it was tough.

I have been offered roles in mainstream films which have not been interesting to me. They have been too insignificant.

Before 'Rangeela' happened to me, all that was offered to me were song-and-dance roles.

I created 'The Guild' because nobody was offering me the roles I thought I could do best at in Hollywood.

Tamil industry has been offering me wonderful roles, and that is what keeps me here.

In the 23 years that I have been here in this industry, I have not once been in a position where somebody has propositioned me or I found myself in a place where they're offering me good work in return for some favors.