Quotes About Roles

When you put a group of actors together who get along, and we have since day one, they don't become like their roles. What tends to happen is their age disappears and they all deal with each other as friends.

As an actor ages north of 60, he tends to be in more father roles than anything else. It's generational. And it tends to be a relationship that fascinates people, the flawed relationships between parents and kids.

David Gregory is known by and respected by many for his years of service to the Tennessee Board of Regents and in many roles in state government.

I've always tried to stray towards characters who are way more faceted than your standard leading man role, and I've been fortunate to play some parts who have this awkward tension to them.

For years, it's driven me crazy that women don't have better roles, especially in comedies. I know so many funny women but I always felt... misogynist streak is too strong a term - but a dismissiveness.

There is more for women in terms of character roles now. Judi Dench and Maggie Smith have constantly changed over the years and challenged themselves with different roles. That's impressive.

Sometimes, the smaller roles in movies can be the most interesting. If you only take the stance that you'll only play central characters in movies, you'll find yourself not being able to indulge in that morally grey terrain that makes support characters so rich and interesting.

It's very interesting because as an actor, you play a litany of different roles, but to play both of them within the same day multiple times, in quick successions, it's different and sort of a really rare opportunity that I was initially terrified by and a little bit daunted by.

After 'Waqt,' I was terrified I'd be offered all the mummy roles.

There are roles that are terrifying because they're large or you may feel that they're out of your line, but I'm never terrified once the actual work begins. Once you begin rehearsal, then it's small building blocks. It's solving little problems one at a time.

Nowadays heroines are doing everything from acting to item songs. They are jumping into the territory of item girls.

The removing of the 'tangles'is a process of liberation from our complexes and illusions and from the way in which we identify with the roles we play in life, with the masks within us and with our idols, etc. It is a 'release' according to the etymology of the word, a liberation and awakening of hidden potential.

Paula Gunn Allen, in her book Grandmothers of the Light, writes of the changing roles of women as they spiral through the phases of life, like the changing face of the moon.

Confucius didn't care much for women: When a girl, obey your father; when a wife, obey your husband; when a widow, obey your son.

No man was built to shoulder the full weight of feeding and caring for his family. That was why he had a wife and daughters.

Selena loved the liminal spaces. Those precious slivers of time between the roles she played in life.

And this town was no different. Even the faces were the same. It was strange, he thought, how little difference there was in people. When one traveled, got around to many towns, one soon realized there were just so many types, and one found them in every town. Names were different, and expressions, but it was like many casts playing the same roles in a drama. The parts remained the same; only the names of the cast had changed.

Yes, Father, I have played so many parts that I shall not fail now but enjoy the masquerade, since I have a partner in it

Tan encadenados estamos a nuestro rol, en esta sociedad en la que vivimos a través de estereotipos. Como dice Elena en su ensayo de Pares e impares: hay un rol de hombre, otro de mujer. Uno de anciano, otro de joven. Lo hay de padre y de hijo, de mujer tradicional o liberada, de loco y de cuerdo, de triunfador y de vencido. Son todos personajes rígidos, vacíos, irreales: distorsionados reflejos de personas.

I always had a larger view. I'm interested in real life - my family, my friends. I have tried never to define myself by my success, whatever that is. My happiness is way beyond roles and awards.

People ask, 'What's the best role you've ever played?' The next one.

There are people in Europe who, confounding together the different characteristics of the sexes, would make of man and woman beings not only equal but alike. They would give to both the same functions, impose on both the same duties, and grant to both the same rights; they would mix them in all things—their occupations, their pleasures, their business.

In no country has such constant care been taken as in America to trace two clearly distinct lines of action for the two sexes...

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