Quotes About Roles

I always tell Asian actors, especially Filipinos wanting to break into Hollywood, to study, study and study and show their best. I haven't stopped studying. There's an abundance of roles, and all you have to do is prove to them that you are good for the role.

I've had to adapt my wardrobe to my various roles, both at the office, as a mom, and for television. When I shop for the season I look for pieces that will suit every facet of my daily life, not just one single occasion.

I actually have a piece of the wardrobe of most of the characters that I've played. I always ask for something.

I have other careers in terms of stand-up, stage acting and writing, so I don't feel too hidebound by that, but I do quite like playing those warm roles.

All the roles that I have acted in were all special in a different way. But the role of Ri Jeong-hyeok had more warmth and innocence compared to the other roles that I have acted. I think it was more special in terms of expressing the role.

I've had Susan Sarandon play my mom, and now Lesley Ann Warren has played my mom, so if I could have Debra Winger play my mom, then I would have the trifecta of my favorite actresses playing my mother.

I think that there is a difference between men and women as a warrior and a nurturer... It's innate.

Since Star Wars, that film's success led to bigger budgets, more hardware, that the great movies like the ones I did, which were studio movies, are now independent movies. They range from half a million to several million, and a lot of those have very interesting roles.

We don't put gender roles on our marriage and our relationship. If I'm working a lot and Cory's home, he will put Cree to bed, and if dishes need to be washed, he will wash them. So it's not like, 'Oh, I'm going to wait until my wife gets home, and she's going to be doing all that.'

We live our roles better than our own lives.

From the spectacular point of view, the reduction of man to consumer is an enrichment: the more things he has, the more roles he plays, the more he is. So it is decreed by the organization of appearances. But, from the point of view of lived reality, all power so attained is paid for by the sacrifice of true self-realization. What is gained on the level of appearances is lost on the level of being and becoming.

When we focus on those few women who fought in the war, and when we further mythologize their deeds, we inadvertently downgrade the real lives of the mass of women who did not raise arms but who still played active and important roles in the Revolutionary War.

The wife acting as the head, but not a wise head, and the husband acting as the helper, but not a wise helper—it was the breakdown of marriage that broke everything.

All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players; They have their exits and their entrances; And one man in his time plays many parts. William Shakespeare, 1564—1616

Those girl-next-door roles were my bread and butter and I was appreciated for my work.

I have done films only because my roles were good in them. It has got nothing to do with being associated with any particular camp.

Throughout my career, I wouldn't say my roles have been based on my being considered eye candy.

The thing is, I don't just take roles because they're performance capture.

I have to be careful not to do so many comedy airhead roles from now on. I've turned down a couple already.

I choose my roles carefully.

You have to carry so many archetypes as an actor, especially as a blonde-haired, blue-eyed one.

Before 'Lucky Louie,' nobody would ever cast me to play a mom or a wife; nobody ever saw me in that role, which is weird, since that's who I really am.

You're always being cast for what you've been in last.

When I was thinking of casting this, I thought, What roles would Sellers be playing now?