Quotes About Roles

I am like many of the women I have played onscreen.

I'm getting a lot of roles as women who are very powerful. I think that's a reflection of me as a person.

I feel like there is this resurgence of amazing roles for women. It's because TV is so good - there are amazing parts for women on TV, and it's upped the game in movies.

Women often find great roles in revolution, simply because the rules fall apart and everyone has agency, anyone can act.

Women are wives and mothers and girlfriends, but not the center of our own stories. No one's the good guy; no one's the bad guy. We all do deplorable things and very honorable things.

The family exists in order to allow women to have children and to have the protection of a male who takes care of them.

Middle-aged women on telly is a bit of a hot topic - before, we were 27 to 37, and now we're 40 to 50. You do notice as you get older... you go past 35, and suddenly you're playing baddies.

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.

A lot of times [in the movie industry], women are relegated to playing the wife or girlfriend or daughter.

I don't mind women who want to act. That's fine. It's odd that men want to act, in that there's still a degree of vanity associated with it.

I think that's important to women in comedy, that we get a lot of the good lines and you're not just the girlfriend or the sister.

There is one group of people - social conservatives, religious conservatives - who honestly feel that women's place is in the home and that wives should submit to their husbands.

I feel like women have an easier time separating from their characters than men do.

Let's face it: men do a lot of things in the workplace that women just don't do.

she'd played mother and wives. Women in narratives were always defined by their relations.

If women had power what would men be but women who can't bear children? And what would women be but men who can?

Now domestication and sophistication of men by women are the norm and acceptable by society, but they are terrible for manhood.

There's a personal me, there's an actor me and there's a star me.

I like the character roles. Somewhere back there I really came to the conclusion in my mind that the difference between acting and stardom was major. And that if you become a star, people are going to go to see you. If you remain an actor, they're going to go and see the story you're in.

I started out my career as a screenwriter and quickly discovered that adhering to a script isn't always the best way to make a film. You have to take into consideration the nuances of the characters and what the actors bring to their roles.

I've played in a lot of different roles through the course of my career and I've been a starter for a lot of those years and the mentality can never change.

I think people get hung up on starters and 11s, and that number kind of rings through a lot of media's heads.

I'm starting to shake it off, I am quite self-conscious, and it's only when I'm playing roles that I can escape that. The older I get, the more people tell me it's absolutely fine to be the way you are with all your quirks and nuances, and I wish I'd learnt that younger - I would have relaxed a bit more.

Films with female protagonists don't attract many eyeballs. Most of them are perceived as feminist films. If Bollywood starts giving women major roles in entertaining movies, then the audience, too, will open up to the idea of watching commercial films in which the actresses do more than just play the role of the hero's love interest.