Quotes About Roles

There have been amazing performances by straight people playing gay and by gay people playing straight.

I'm quite lucky in that at certain angles I look all right, and at others I don't look so good, which enables me to play some leading roles and some stranger, more 'character'-type parts. I wouldn't say I'm the conventional handsome Hollywood leading man.

You know, I get recognized for Turk Barrett probably more than any of my other roles, even more than the 'Stranger Things' role.

Esto me choca, porque me parece una falta de diversidad en nuestra concepción sobre qué tipo de cosas debería hacer la gente.

A woman can take care of the family. It takes a man to provide structure, to provide stability.

A woman can take care of the family. It takes a man to provide structure, to provide stability. Not that I'm saying a woman can't provide stability, I'm not saying that...It does take a father though.

Most people define themselves by what they do - 'I'm a musician.' Then one day it occurred to me that I'm only a musician when I'm playing music - or writing music, or talking about music. I don't do that 24 hours a day. I'm also a father, a son, a husband, a citizen - I mean, when I go to vote, I'm not thinking of myself as 'a musician.'

Acting is an imaginative exercise. It would be odd if you didn't try to identify with the roles you play, but I think I can differentiate between where my imagination is leading me and where I actually am.

Gender roles are absurd when you actually look at them. The fact that anybody could ever say or think that dressing in women's clothes is wrong, or odd. Women dressing in women's clothes and men dressing in men's clothes is the actually the thing that is really odd.

If any fantastic filmmakers want to offer me roles, I'll consider it!

There are a lot of people out there who offer roles to actors because they'll elevate their movie to a place the movie would never reach.

I've been offered lots of movies. There's always some actor who's doing a project and would like to have me do it.

Usually, the roles that you get offered that are the mom roles are very much the mom role.

I've got quite a big fan base, and people like to see you do the same thing - that's why you get offered the same roles.

I've been offered starring roles in horrible movies, but I just didn't want to do it. I don't see why you would.

I don't get offered many comedies.

Once you do one bad guy, usually all you get offered is bad guys.

My first mother's role was in 'Aradhana.' But after that in mid to late 1980s, I was being offered more roles of mothers.

I like doing films and I wish that I could do more but I still have to audition. I don't get offered starring roles in movies even though I've written and starred in a movie.

I haven't only been offered Hasidic roles.

If you look at the movies that come out, most of them are bad, so it's not as if achieving some level of success means you get offered better roles, because frankly they don't seem to exist.

You might see some of the movies that I'm in where there are shades of drama or whatever, but for the most part, I don't get offered serious roles.

I've only chosen films that offered me something concrete, even if it is less than what I get to do in the South.

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.'