Roles Quotes

As an actress I take roles I find interesting.

It's still not easy to find roles that offer more complex images of women.

The whole point about becoming an actor is variety and changing roles.

I've been doing this since I was 10 years old, inhabiting different people and playing different roles.

Today, I guess I give a lot more thought to the roles before I sign them.

No one's calling me for lawyer roles. I still have a lot to do to prove myself.

When younger, I was thin as a rail. As I've grown older, I've put on weight. I have continued to love myself in all those roles. Part of my spirituality, I always tell people, is to accept yourself for who you are.

You become very angry and depressed that you keep getting offered only these exceedingly demure and repressed roles. They're so not me. That's why films like Fight Club were so important to me because I think I confounded certain stereotypes and limited perceptions of what I could do as an actress.

I get to do interesting roles and make a living.

I like strong, strong women who don't go down without a fight. I like iconic roles. They don't come around very often, so I have to wait for them. Obviously I'm not the typical blonde who stands by the side, while the man has all the fun.

I don't know what the future holds. I just try to do roles that I haven't done before.

I think it can be hard for any man to sometimes be upstaged by his wife. So when I'm home, I work very hard to be Todd's wife and Jade's mother. I have no problem going back to those traditional roles. I try to be Giada, the young girl that he met 20 years ago and fell in love with.

So now I feel I'm lucky in the respect that I can sort of pick a little more carefully, which is tricky because as a black actress, there aren't that many roles to pick from.

I don't think of it at the moment, but the roles that interest me are those of young people.

I don't really prepare for roles. I just kind of do them!

I don't want to play only Latin women. I want to have roles in English.

I always choose roles that are, you know, hopefully different from the last role. I don't wanna do the same thing over and over again because that's, well, first of all that's no fun.

Having done something like The Thorn Birds gives you enormous longevity. You can keep picking and choosing the roles for a bit longer.

First of all, I choose the great roles, and if none of these come, I choose the mediocre ones, and if they don't come, I choose the ones that pay the rent.

The best roles you have to fight for. You have to really want to do it and you have to go after it.

The last 10 years I have had to bulk up for roles and I'm naturally skinny, so I have eaten and killed so many chickens! I wouldn't even want to count. I need to balance that out.

I feel there is no shortage of real interesting women's roles. But I found them and did all of them just now.

I definitely don't look my age. So I actively look for roles that will help people change their perception of me.

I don't really have preferred roles except those with some complexity.

Because modeling is lucrative, I'm able to save up and be more particular about the acting roles I take.

My goal is to just keep playing roles that are different from the roles I've played before.

I find more interesting roles for women in period pieces. I do personally like watching period films; I think you can really get lost in the fantasy of them.

Playing roles that are intense and damaged has always come more easily to me than doing comedies or lighter stuff - that would be taking a huge risk for me.

The funny thing is, the girls that I'm always up against for roles are pretty nice and cool, like Emma Watson. She's awesome.

I think that witnessing ecological problems visible from space is one of the new and essential roles of astronauts.