Roles Quotes

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.