Roles Quotes

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.

Well, I have a couple of projects in the pipeline, but I'm taking things slow for now and being choosy about the roles I take up. One thing I can assure you of is that you are going to see a lot of me!

One of the pleasures of being an actor is quite simply taking a walk in someone else's shoes. And when I look at the roles I've played, I'm kind of amazed at all the wonderful adventures I've had and the different things I've learned.

Lead roles are fun, but I'm especially happy other, more colorful supporting stuff has come along.

The girl-next-door image is a sort of joke; for years, I couldn't get any roles other than as somebody dark.

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

I don't use my writing career as a vehicle to get me acting work or to write roles for myself.

Of all the roles I've played, none has been as fulfilling as being a mother.

Some of the supporting roles that I've done as an actor, I took them because I knew that I would get to watch some of the leading guys in the movies, and also I'd get to work with them.

I was never the 'babe,' so I knew I'd never get those big roles. I'd always be the best friend or the quirky sidekick.

I have got one of those faces that change every day: you can dress me up, make me look vampy and then make me look 12 years old. But don't all women do this thing? We all take on these roles.

Now I am careful about the kind of roles that I do.

No, most of the decisions that I make with regard to taking roles, I just look for something that's challenging, something that I think I can accomplish, you know.

I guess you should approach the roles differently when they're actual people who have been, this is the difference. Getting the accent exact, or the hair exact is less important in a situation like this.

I haven't only been offered Hasidic roles.

I loved doing Shakespeare. My two favorite roles, in fact, have been Viola in Twelfth Night and Helena in A Midsummer Night's Dream.

Therapy? I don't need that. The roles that I choose are my therapy.

I choose movies, I never choose roles. I look at the script. I look at the director. I look at the other actors - and then the role.

Even though these days I'm very selective about what roles I want to do, I will do Stargate anytime they call.