Quotes About Roles

I love playing different characters.

I played Li'l Abner and Batman in school plays; I wanted to be an actor to play all these different characters.

I was looking to play different characters, and films didn't offer many choices.

I enjoy playing different kind of people.

I have been quite lucky as an actor to have managed to play different kinds of roles.

As a character actor, you go out for all different kinds of things.

I would say I was lucky that I got different kinds of roles.

I'm happy I got to do different kinds of roles - romance, action, and even a satire in 'Bangistan.'

I know that I play a mother all the time, but different kinds of mother.

In many films, as many different characters, I've killed many different people.

I think I would like to see more roles for South Asian performers that are more inclusive and part of the American Diaspora, the American tapestry, perhaps the way that African American and Hispanic roles have developed.

Remembering who I am is a really active task for me. And I often have to tell myself, 'You're a graduate student,' 'You're a daughter,' et cetera, in situations where I'm supposed to behave like one.

In some environments, roles shift and change each period depending on what the company's needs are. On the other hand, many functional roles can become very repetitive if you perform similar tasks over and over again.

I have a real taste for doing action roles. I starred in a movie called 'Blast,' which was my first action film, and I loved the fighting - I think I've got the build, the attitude and the look for it.

Everybody was trying to put me in action movies and heroic roles, and I wanted to find more complex things. They just didn't suit my taste, so I thought, 'OK, I have to be brave enough to say no.' And for a while, that hurt me immeasurably in the Hollywood world.

In those days, I auditioned for everything MGM made while I was under contract. Not for the roles Elizabeth Taylor eventually got, of course.

I've always had the perspective that roles come into my life when I need them most and sort of teach me lessons. The same can be true of films, films are released into society to aid in a lesson, inspire people, comfort people.

Every role sort of teaches you how to prepare for it.

I style my roles mostly with some help from my team of stylists.

The modern individual family is based on the open or disguised domestic enslavement of the woman; and modern society is a mass composed solely of individual families as its molecules. Today, in the great majority of cases, the man has to be the earner, the breadwinner of the family, at least among the propertied classes, and this gives him a dominating position which requires no special legal privileges. In the family, he is the bourgeois; the wife represents the proletariat.

Once a month, some women act like men act all the time.

Human society as a whole is a vast brainwashing machine whose semantic rules and sex roles create a social robot.

Programmers can practice in a similar fashion using a game known as ping-pong.8 The two partners choose a kata, or a simple problem. One programmer writes a unit test, and then the other must make it pass. Then they reverse roles.

Your task is to let go of the rigidity that takes hold of you as you overidentify with the expected gender role. Power lies in exploring that middle range between the masculine and the feminine, in playing against people's expectations.