Quotes About Roles

I have been juggling so many roles. I am a mother, too. I have three sons to take care of. I don't even know how I manage to pull it off sometimes.

The only day I will worry is if I stop getting exciting roles. As an actor, I have so much to give. There's a lot of fire and hunger in me to juice every part that I get.

There aren't many roles that are interesting if you're a 40-year-old woman, unless you're Julia Roberts or Cate Blanchett.

I like doing what I do, but I like having the opportunity to do different things, and obviously comedy would be a fun jump. I've just been lucky enough to stay working. In my case, playing intense roles or playing character roles is something that people will hire me for, but yeah, I'd like somebody to think I'm funny. I guess we all do, right?

I don't want to do roles in films which I have already done on TV. What is the point of jumping to films and doing the same thing?

I love taking on roles that other people have written for me just as much as I take on writing - just not as much of a, 'Oh, that guy.' I want people to start saying, 'Oh, Brett Gelman's new piece is coming out. That's a Brett Gelman movie. That's a a Brett Gelman show.'

I've probably had my best time acting - or not acting, or trying to not act - on things like 'The Low Down' or 'Treacle Jr.' I'm happiest doing things like that. Not just because they're lead roles, but because there's more freedom in them.

We all have roles in life. I'm a dad, a husband, this and that, but basically I only feel justified in being alive when I'm on the stage.

I think the kind of films and roles I do takes a whole year... I think it is justified. At some point, we have to come to that place where we are equally paid. It is a small step... we are headed to that direction.

I'm more keen on roles that have a lasting impact even if I get only a minute on screen.

I have been able to play a lot of guys and they have kept me working.

I don't want to do 'Hamlet.' I don't want to do Robert Redford roles or Mel Gibson roles or Kevin Costner roles, because I'm not going to be good at them.

With Klaxons I had an instrument, so I had a job to play keys. Everyone's roles get defined early in bands, so you're 'that guy who does this one thing' and it felt too restrictive doing that.

A woman's whole life is spent making chicken curry while her husband works. Then, any time he likes, he can kick her out.

I think I've always just been kinda geeky and got to play some mildly appealing roles.

There are only two kinds of roles that work in Bollywood, the sexy and the glamorous kind.

I have done a film like 'Kaalpurush' by Buddhadeb Dasgupta and then I also have movies like 'Musafir,' where I am an out-and-out glam doll. So I do all kinds of cinema.

You see everyone today is doing bold roles and no film is made without endless kissing scenes, that too with A-list stars.

No. 1, women should be in the bedroom. No. 2, get to the kitchen. No. 3, support the man, support the king.

Once I won the roles in 'Spender' and 'First Knight' it was much easier for everyone, me included, to get their heads around the idea of me being an actor.

I'd like to get more bit-acting roles. I don't know if my talent would allow for a long dialogue, but I could definitely knock out three lines. I'd kill it.

I never wanted to be an actress who complained about the lack of roles for women.

I feel like I've done a bunch of period stuff and then a bunch of romantic comedies.

We spend our lives crafting masks to fit the roles we are expected to play, but in doing so, we lose sight of who we truly are.