Quotes About Roles

My life and work are not separate. I just have more roles than other people. And I have photographs.

The way I go about choosing roles is basically by just trying to pick the complete opposite of the last thing I did, or if it has someone else who I really have wanted to work with.

Our lives are a mixture of different roles. Most of us are doing the best we can to find whatever the right balance is . . . For me, that balance is family, work, and service.

You become very angry and depressed that you keep getting offered only these exceedingly demure and repressed roles. They're so not me. That's why films like Fight Club were so important to me because I think I confounded certain stereotypes and limited perceptions of what I could do as an actress.

My agent and I are very clear on what kind of roles I'm interested in, and I don't want to perpetuate any stereotypes.

I don't feel that any kind of narrow stereotypes are representative of the work I've done, nor the range of the audience that work has found. I've played lots of different roles, and they've connected with lots of different people.

As soon as you start looking into roles which are specifically Asian, Black, or Latina, you start looking at stereotypes. That's the issue minority actors face - it's not that we don't want to play our ethnicities; it's that, often, the role that's written for our ethnicity is a stereotype.

TV is kind of messed up in terms of stereotypes and who plays the leading man and leading lady.

I want our generation to break stereotypes, and I want Indians who are making their foray in Hollywood to get all kinds of roles.

Most executives are male, so it's always sort of their vision of stuff. I'm constantly fighting against that even when I play the wife or the girlfriend or the best friend. I always try my hardest to bring as much layering in and not make things stereotypical, but it's hard.

I'd like to see more Asian-American roles where the ethnicity of the character can be swapped to another. We can, of course, play the stereotypical ninja, the martial arts master, the accountant, the doctor, but we can be more than that!

Filmmakers have role for everyone today. There are no stereotypical roles.

I hate stereotypical roles.

I'm just trying to put my feet into different characters and not play the stereotypical type thing, to let me grow as an actor.

If you play a gay role, it sticks more than it does if an actor were to play a murderer or a psychopath.

Bollywood is not a stepping stone to the West. I am extremely picky and in no hurry to sign a Hollywood film. I am only greedy for great roles; language and country is no barrier. And yes, I'll always be a Hindi film star first.

I've become so earthy. And I never was earthy. I'm doing all kinds of different roles which are not at all like the intellectual and the legal mind of Ben Stone.

Traditionally, our society has always seen women as homemakers and men as bread-earners. The demarcations are engraved in stone, perhaps.

If it is within limits and forms part of the storyline, I have no hesitation in doing glamour roles.

It's incredibly frustrating to constantly read scripts where you're the girlfriend who is there to further the man's storyline.

We've made so much headway with storytelling - mostly on cable, let's be honest - but also on the networks and, you know, I think it's about time that the leads are women. I'm not a woman, so I'm a bit biased - I wouldn't mind if a few roles were left over for men.

I think a culture can really be elevated through the arts, and it's always a dream come true when I come across roles that enable me to fuse my love of storytelling with my passion for activism and raising social awareness.

A lot of straight actors are actively searching for gay roles because it is something different to do.

Gay actors have been playing straight since Euripides.