Quotes About Roles

I've had really a great choice of roles that have been very different from one another. And I think I kind of set out to do that when I began my career - to aim to never play the same thing twice.

I'm vain enough to want do a movie again, but right now more roles are the last thing on my list.

I have drive, for sure. You have to. It's a tough business; there are a lot of actresses and not a lot of great roles. I don't want to complain because I'm so grateful.

I was very willing to take on controversial roles that people didn't really want to look at.

I look at it like, I'm just a character actor. If I get cast as the stoned sidekick, fine. But I just want to act.

If people offer me decent roles in good films, of course I'll take it. But I just didn't like the actor lifestyle. You end up focusing all your energy on trying to get parts you don't even want.

There are times when I don't take roles because I don't want to be perceived a certain way.

As an actor, those are the roles that you long for. You always want something that's going to kick your last role out of the water and put you off on a new path.

The idea of playing a character for even two years, to me feels claustrophobic - only because I want to play a lot of different people.

A lot of actors are frustrated because they want to do things that are different and test themselves. Character actors are always looking for something the opposite of what they did.

There's always male roles I want to play. I'm so annoyed when I watch movies and go, "That could have been played by a woman."

I didn't know what types of movies I wanted to do. I want to do things that are different. I want to take my time with each role.

I do intelligent roles. I don't want to be labeled as doing silly movies. I'm more mature than kids my age because I'm constantly surrounded by adults.

Generally my instinct is to not do biographical movies. I want to build characters and not be locked into playing a part in history.

I recognize the amount of time that it takes as a director. I made the choice to stop taking roles outside of L.A. because I didn't want to miss any of my child's life.

I am ready to face the International Criminal Court of Justice at the Hague for prosecution over roles played by me when the war ended

Library users are eighty percent male, and librarians are eighty percent female, so that's something to keep in mind.

Gender relations are dependent on men being men and women being women.

It's hard to imagine what the Bronte sisters' lives would've been like had they been men. Different things would've been expected of them, and maybe they wouldn't have ended up writing because they would've been packed off to do something else.

I don't want to be 45 competing with 20-year-olds, running to go get Botox. I want to be an expressive actor hired for the age that I am, portraying women who are my age: 40. I'm just hoping I can find some of those roles to play. Otherwise, I have to find something else.

At times, I have had the opportunity to play character roles in movies like 'Kathavasheshan.' Still, I act in all the roles I am offered if it has something special.

We are anxious because we do not know what roles to pursue, what principles for action to believe in. Our individual anxiety, somewhat like that of the nation, is a basic confusion and bewilderment about where we are going.

All my cop/gangster dramas have been spaced out, but somewhere, the films in which I played the bad guy were extremely successful, so people are under the impression that I play only such roles. I call it selective amnesia.

I've been honoured to portray such intelligent and sophisticated roles.