Quotes About Roles

Men were valued by what they did, women by how they looked and then by what their husbands did, and all of life was arranged (or so we thought) from the outside in.

I'm hesitant to do leading man character roles because I think they can be a little boring in terms of needing to be the everyman who navigates the amazing stuff around them.

My whole background is character acting: weird costumes, fat suits, playing men, playing animals - I've never played anyone with whom there's any overlapping Venn diagram.

From my earliest memory, times of crisis seemed to end up with women in the kitchen preparing food for men.

It was the duty of wives to submit to husbands, not of husbands to submit to wives. . . men have stronger muscles than women.

It is odd there are many movies with many men. But generally movies have one woman, or maybe the older woman and the younger girl.

I've played three presidents, three saints and two geniuses - and that's probably enough for any man.

Most parts in comedy, they're not really written for men. They're written for, like, these boy-men.

It's what actors call a big, juicy part, when you're a leading man. I don't get a lot of those. I get a lot of supporting things.

I am fond of depicting the lives of young folks for one thing, and if you have parts for girls or young men, you must absolutely have young people to fill them - that is generally acknowledged now.

A man penetrates, conquers, colonizes, plants. A woman receives, surrenders, accepts.

What we consider typical of the male is a question I ask myself quite often - its relevant to my life as an actor and as a man.

Men don't have as many difficulties and are more supported to combine the different aspects of their life.

My first four roles were all nice guys, Raggedy Man being one of them.

We all have a cross-gender character: Every woman has a man that they can play, and every man has a woman that they can play.

We are a society that values a man for what he does in the world, a woman for how she looks.

I just pick the best roles that are left over, and they usually aren't the heterosexual, leading-man, non-drug-addict parts. And once you get into doing them, people know you do them.

In Hollywood, you play a mom and instantly, you've got osteoporosis.

I think there's a danger of a being typecast as the all-American mom forever.

In Hollywood, you play a mom, and the next thing you know, you're on 'The Golden Girls.' They age you so fast.

In their hearts women think that it is men's business to earn money and theirs to spend it.

I've never been drawn to the feminist movement. I was brought up to believe that men had little to do with the home or children - except to bring in the money.

The studios have their list of five actresses and whether they're right or wrong for a role doesn't matter. It's how much money their last movie made.

Housekeepers, homemakers, wives, and mothers are fundamental social relations, which rest upon woman's characteristics, physical, mental, and moral.