Roles Quotes

I'm just a pack mule. I've played leads and I've played character roles. Any actress in Hollywood will tell you as your age climbs, the leads thin.

In fact, the socialization gives us the tools to fill our evolutionary roles. They are our building blocks.

People who sleep around to get roles are frail and scared and most likely without talent. It's their own little horror show that only they can deal with.

I guess I'm attracted to these off beat roles because my life has been a bit abnormal. The only thing I have a problem with is being labeled.

I was beginning to think I was typecast in everyone's mind out there as a serial killer. I played a serial killer in one movie, I was the ghost of a serial killer in another and in a third, a computer-generated serial killer. The stage looks pretty good after those roles.

But Eddie does not make all the decisions. Eddie can listen to reason; Eddie can be swayed or talked in or out of certain things. Eddie allows other people to lead in this band and to have certain roles that are very fundamental to the decision-making process.

I'm getting a lot of roles as women who are very powerful. I think that's a reflection of me as a person.

In planning an attack, persons have various roles.

Character roles definitely age better than your ingenues. You don't get to keep doing that.

It's about pursuing it rather than waiting to see what comes along. That's partly because I found myself getting typecast, as everyone does unless they pursue roles that are very different from what they've done before.

I think, certainly in the more civilized societies, women's roles are growing in power all of the time.

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

That's the great thing about being an actor, you get to try out lots of things for your roles.

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.

When my career first began, I didn't have children - so there's a whole lot of difference in the way I choose roles now. Not just films for my children, but how long I'm going to be away, and is Dad going to be home while I'm gone. That sort-of factor plays a part.

After Halle Berry does her films and Queen Latifah does her films, it's left to all the black, Latino and Asian actresses to fight over a couple of roles. I opted for some TV. There's just not a ton of work in film.

I'm basically a movie actor now, and my big roles are mostly horror movies - unless I'm doing a guest star or something - and occasionally I try to get back into television.

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.