Quotes About Roles

I played the lead in 'Kutumb,' my debut serial. But after that if I had been stubborn asking for lead roles, just a few shows would have come my way.

I've played all kinds of historical characters, but they are stuck in movies that aren't their movies.

I think it's very important to emphasize that there are many, many different educational institutions in what we call higher education, and they educate an enormous diversity of students. I think all of those institutions have to define particular roles for themselves; they can't do everything at once.

I studied theater in college, and I really wanted to be an actress and play a lot of different roles. Then I made landing on a television comedy my main focus.

I've never done a big studio film, I've only ever done little ones.

My husband calls it winging it - the way I just took what the studios gave me, didn't do my homework and avoided roles that would risk my image.

As soon as I became proactive in producing my own stuff, I started getting other roles.

I'm stunned that people keep asking me to play characters I didn't expect to play.

I come from a huge theater background. The whole action and stunt world just came as the roles were available.

Stunt work offers a diversity of roles and, while I'm used to anonymity, I really like showing off and performing in front of camera, though I know my limitations.

We did many of our own stunts. We had our hands full. In fact, the roles were physically demanding.

I love playing roles that are physical, absolutely love. Whether it's just that kind of basic level of physicality or whether it's stunts.

A lot of the characters I play are very naive, and I don't think I'm like that. And I'm not stupid!

I've always looked for roles that are different. I've tried to continue to challenge myself as an actor and work in varying styles of films.

Animals are stylized characters in a kind of old saga - stylized because even the most acute of them have little leeway as they play out their parts.

In our subconscious, we all know we're playing roles.

I met a producer at a festival last year, and she said: you will find as you get older that there might not be parts; there aren't always roles for women out there that are any good. I don't think I will ever stop feeling that way: we've all grown up in the culture, it infiltrates your subconscious.

There are roles I want that my agency might not want me to do because of the subject matter or whatever. Or there are roles that people won't bring to me because they don't think I'll do it. And that is a big strain because an actor wants to act.

I shy away from doing heroine-dominated subjects.

When you look at the roles I've done and the roles coming up, they're all strong. I guess I'm more drawn to that than that kind of submissive role females can be categorised as.

I believe that it's easier for the woman to submit. That's biblical... God has equipped men to take on much more responsibility.

The social and legal discrimination that relegates hundreds of women to subordinate or marginal economic roles has a huge aggregate cost.

What I'd look for are roles in which the heroine's character has substance rather than just glamour.

I hope to get roles that are not just glamorous, but also have some substance.