Roles Quotes

I've thought about doing other dramatic roles besides westerns, but I grew up in the West and I know the West.

I'm blessed to have cool roles in these big movies.

I've done a lot of serious roles, but they're, like, independent, so it's harder for them to come out. The big ones have been comedies, but I would love to get a big drama to let people see the other side of me, that I am a serious actress.

As a kid, I'd go into the bathroom when I was having a tantrum. I'd be in the bathroom crying, studying myself in the mirror. I was preparing for future roles.

So there's no such thing as one too many this, one too many that. I remember, you're reminding me of early in my career, somebody said to me: why are you taking so many roles as a policeman.

There are a couple of roles I haven't played that I want to. I would love to play Shiloh.

I don't condemn anyone for making their choices. If someone chooses those roles, fine. But not for me. When someone stops me and says, You're the reason I became an actress, that lets me know I made the right decision.

One of the most important roles of our journalists is to be watchdogs.

You think once you've shown what you can do, and your movies have been successful, that snap, you work. So to discover the difference between guys' roles and girls' roles made me plain mad. It's unjust.

I don't think I ever expected anything like an Oscar ever, to tell you the truth. That is not my motivation when I do these roles. I really am motivated by being able to work with great people and create a body of work that I can look back and be proud of.

If there are no other wonderful roles that come my way, I have a quite an interesting, dynamic life.

For the metropolis presents the peculiar conditions which are revealed to us as the opportunities and the stimuli for the development of both these ways of allocating roles to men.

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.

I don't really prepare for roles. I just kind of do them!

I don't want to play only Latin women. I want to have roles in English.

I always choose roles that are, you know, hopefully different from the last role. I don't wanna do the same thing over and over again because that's, well, first of all that's no fun.

Having done something like The Thorn Birds gives you enormous longevity. You can keep picking and choosing the roles for a bit longer.

First of all, I choose the great roles, and if none of these come, I choose the mediocre ones, and if they don't come, I choose the ones that pay the rent.

The best roles you have to fight for. You have to really want to do it and you have to go after it.

The last 10 years I have had to bulk up for roles and I'm naturally skinny, so I have eaten and killed so many chickens! I wouldn't even want to count. I need to balance that out.

I feel there is no shortage of real interesting women's roles. But I found them and did all of them just now.

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.