Roles Quotes

You know, right now, they say - I don't know who says this, but somebody told me - there's three male roles to every female role. And I guess I'd work on evening that up. Making great roles for women. It's just such a huge challenge.

Age is the first limitation on roles that I've ever had to encounter, and I hit that awhile ago.

I was reading through endless junk scripts that were being sent my way. Typically the roles were to play his wife or his girlfriend - leading roles for women were few and far between.

Men and women have roles - their roles are different, but their rights are equal.

I'm always glad to be offered roles, but wouldn't take any role as this could do you more harm than good, but I've been at what they call 'on the top' as far as being known for twenty years.

A lot of straight actors are actively searching for gay roles because it is something different to do.

An audience is going to be able to find a little bit of Dorothy in themselves and relate to this woman.: roles like Dorothy Day are so rare in Hollywood.

I never played the right roles, or very rarely got the right roles offered, except on stage.

There's still a bit of a problem, in that so many leading English roles are taken by American or French actresses.

I'm not going to change the world overnight. It's one person at a time, and hopefully they're people in positions of power who can help people get in those roles and really, truly embrace colorblind casting.

I've always had the perspective that roles come into my life when I need them most and sort of teach me lessons. The same can be true of films, films are released into society to aid in a lesson, inspire people, comfort people.

I know I'm responsible for not having got the kind of roles that I'd have liked to. '

I have very much enjoyed being in the music business in different roles through five different decades.

The role of Rimbaud is one of the most important roles to play for a young actor.

My job is to play many different roles with all sorts of different backgrounds and orientations.

There are lots of different reasons to choose roles.

In subsequent years the groups you named had important roles in educating people about the real issues in Washington and Raleigh, and within the Democratic Party.

I wish I could speak Spanish, because it would be a lot easier to play more interesting roles.

After I got to Hollywood, I resented that I didn't get a crack at more dramatic roles because I photographed so beautifully.

I always had a larger view. I'm interested in real life - my family, my friends. I have tried never to define myself by my success, whatever that is. My happiness is way beyond roles and awards.

I'm trying to mix the cool, independent stuff with the big stuff, but it's been difficult finding the right roles. It's been an interesting ride as far as my career pendulum is concerned.

The number of Latino roles is very limited, and it's unfortunate there isn't more color-blind casting.

It wasn't my intention in going after this part but I suppose now I do. The adult roles are a lot meatier - you're not always just the daughter or the girlfriend or whatever.

I'd like to find great roles close to home and work on great projects while staying near my family. My family's the most important thing to me right now.

That's the thing with sci-fi and action roles. You have to play the danger as real. If you don't, you end up with egg on your face. You have to commit. You can't think about how stupid it might look without the special effects.

I'm proud of my background, so I hope there will be more roles where Hispanics are being portrayed.

What I really want to do is create great roles for women. And I'm not talking Nicholas Sparks romance. I think women's roles have gotten ghettoized in these sort of places... I'm thinking women in action, comic books, or like the Tony Soprano of women. We need some complex roles.

I hope to have some more cracks at some wonderful roles before I go to the Great Beyond.

But when I think of superchicks, I think of the roles, not the variety.

I wanted to be on the stage, doing very important emotional roles.