Roles Quotes

People think that my favorite roles to do are villains, but I find comedy to be the most challenging and rewarding.

We have a problem now with parents stealing their kids' CDs, so the roles have been reversed.

It's upsetting that it is such a big deal. I wish it weren't an issue all the time. It's funny that people say it's a departure, because I've been acting since I was a child. I've played three gay roles out of hundreds.

Theater actors like to change character roles. They don't like to always do the same thing.

It took several years of hard work in small roles before I attained stardom.

I still have a reputation as an eccentric. But the fact is that audiences probably mix up my roles with me as a person.

It's good to be busy on a film set because there is a lot of sitting around, so if you've got two roles to play at one time, then that's great to do.

I think it is important for people who are given leadership roles to assume that role immediately.

You have actresses like Meryl Streep and Julia Roberts, who have roles specially written for them.

If you go in and audition for roles rather than just be offered them, then you kind of get a chance to kind of discover that you can do something that you didn't think you could do.

I figured as I got older, the good roles for women would be in the theatre. So 15 years ago I started building a Broadway career to try and develop the chops to be accepted as a great theatrical actress.

I don't think an actor ever wants to establish an image. That certainly hurt me, and yet that is also what made me successful and eventually able to do more challenging roles.

Well you know, I think a lot of us in marriage know that you play different roles at different times. And Mitt can get very intense, and I can have the ability to kind of talk him off the rails sometimes and say, 'Hey let's look at what is really important and let's do that now.'

I think real life reflects your movies. In your life, you pick stuff that influences what movie roles you wanna pick. I think if you've got an interesting life, you wanna do interesting movies about interesting things.