Roles Quotes - Page 31

• I went out to Bali, and I cast all of these supporting roles. I love that stuff. I just love actors. And then, Ryan Murphy asked me to direct second unit for him on Eat Pray Love. I was already booked on something else, but I joined them later. And then, I wrote him a thank you email and I got no response. I was like, "Okay, that's it." We didn't interact much on set either.

  Alfonso Gomez-Rejon

  Email, Actors, Stuff

  Source: collider.com

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• The harder [role] the better. Definitely. When somebody turns around and says, "She can't do that," then that's the one I want to do.

  Priyanka Chopra

  Want, Harder, Turns

  "Priyanka Chopra Talks Disney’s PLANES, Playing the Character Ishani, Hoping to Inspire Children with Her Confidence, Her Love of Flying & Her Competitive Spirit". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. August 13, 2013.

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• Being a theater actor, I've done a lot of plays where I've seen someone else play the same role in another production. Especially with the classics: Shakespeare, Tennessee Williams.

  Jacki Weaver

  Play, Tennessee, Actors

  "Jacki Weaver, America’s Sweetheart". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 2, 2014.

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• When being a stunt double, my job has always a supportive role, which is interesting, really. Part of what I really like about it is making a situation where people can just come out of their shell and be super bad-ass. That's exciting!

  Zoe Bell

  Jobs, Bad Ass, People

  Source: collider.com

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• The physical element of a role is something I'm super familiar with, and I love it. I've definitely made the transition into acting over doubling, just because I needed to make it clear to myself, so that I fully committed.

  Zoe Bell

  Acting, Transition, Elements

  Source: collider.com

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• I'm certainly not on a mission to be taken seriously as a dramatic actress, any more than I am just to be able to get roles that are exciting and satisfying to me. If that means action, then that means action.

  Zoe Bell

  Taken, Mean, Able

  Source: collider.com

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• In a lot of roles, strong women feel like they need to apologize. But men don't need to apologize for being ruthless and women somehow do?

  Rodrigo Santoro

  Strong Women, Needs, Apologizing

  Source: collider.com

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• It's amazing how the world has changed because, at that time [2005], a lot of actors didn't want to play a gay role.

  Jake Gyllenhaal

  Gay, Play, Actors

  "10 Years After 'Brokeback,' Jake Gyllenhaal Remembers Heath Ledger: 'Way Beyond His Years as a Human'". Interview with Stephen Galloway, www.hollywoodreporter.com. November 25, 2015.

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• So when it comes to being a role model to women, I think it's because of the way that I feel about myself, and the way that I treat myself. I am a woman, I treat myself with respect and I love myself, and I think that if I'm holding myself to a certain esteem and keeping it real with myself, then that's going to translate to people like me.

  Lizzo

  Real, Thinking, People

  "Lizzo’s Big Moment". Interview with Lea Weatherby, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 15, 2014.

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• This is not the 19th century, where actors are expected to play completely opposite roles. We're not typecast, but we're brought in because somebody thinks that it's a good fit, so you make it a better fit.

  Kate Mulgrew

  Thinking, Opposites, Play

  Source: collider.com

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• To make a long story short, I auditioned for the role of Piper because I read the pilots every year and this show was head-and-shoulders above any pilot I've read in awhile. It was amazing. So, I read for Piper and I knew that I wasn't really right for it, but I loved it so much that I wanted to read for it.

  Laura Prepon

  Years, Long, Stories

  Source: collider.com

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• I think drugs played a big role in the Taboo scene. People were taking copious amounts of ecstasy, which had filtered over from New York, and at a certain point you were more likely to spend most of the night in the toilets at the club.

  Boy George

  New York, Night, Thinking

  "Taboo". Interview with Mark Ronson, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 28, 2012.

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• Rock of the ages been a really interesting job. It's been exhausting. It's been the hardest thing I've ever done because it's just so big, and I haven't had a lot of time. And I'm just kind of blowing through this. And everybody's, like, happy, and giving thumbs up. Most of the actors have said "this is the best role they've ever had." So you know, that's important to me.

  Adam Shankman

  Jobs, Thumbs Up, Rocks

  Source: collider.com

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• It's really rare to get a teenage role that resembles something of what it's like to be a young person, that isn't a cliché or a stereotype.

  Mia Wasikowska

  Teenage, Stereotype, Young

  Source: collider.com

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• If I was playing Carrie, I might have done differently but I felt like as my character. I mean, I'm definitely bringing myself to the role but I wanted to pay homage. I hope I did. We'll see.

  Judy Greer

  Character, Mean, Done

  Source: collider.com

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• It [preparing for a role] is just like studying for a test and making the test easy; it makes it a lot of fun, especially when people enjoy it.

  Gina Carano

  Fun, People, Tests

  "Gina Carano Talks FAST & FURIOUS 6, Fight Choreography, How Things Have Changed Since HAYWIRE and Her Upcoming Release IN THE BLOOD". Interview with Dave Trumbore, collider.com. May 20, 2013.

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• Every artist's world is an individual experience and no one thing can prepare you. You have to go in and go where those roles lead you - just allow it to happen and follow your path.

  Kalup Linzy

  Artist, World, Path

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I love the chameleon nature of this business [acting]. I always have. Sometimes I'm not as recognizable as somebody else and I may not have gotten a role, but for me, acting is not a competition. I've just kept my head down and kept working, and had the great pleasure of working with some amazing people and playing some extraordinary and extreme characters.

  Ray Stevenson

  Character, People, Competition

  Source: collider.com

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• Entrepreneurs are perennially short on cash, so they tend to hire less expensive and less experienced team members. Yet most founders are overworked, so they have no time and budget for coaching and training. Team members not confident in their roles lose motivation quickly.

  Martin Zwilling

  Motivation, Team, Entrepreneur

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• I don't want to ever think that I don't know what to do. I want to deal with my own things, to perform my own roles, to be like, "I did this."

  Bill Skarsgard

  Thinking, Want, Deals

  Source: collider.com

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• I was very soft. I gained a lot of weight with my second child and was very on the couch. And [my manager] said, "You know, this is a softer role [in Misteress]. She is a softer character. She's a lesbian that's always the passive half of the relationship."

  Shannyn Sossamon

  Children, Character, Half

  Source: collider.com

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• Not since the days of the Hitler Youth have young people been subjected to more propaganda on more politically correct issues. At one time, educators boasted that their role was not to teach students what to think but how to think. Today, their role is far too often to teach students what to think on everything from immigration to global warming to the new sacred trinity of 'race, class and gender.'

  Thomas Sowell

  Thinking, Class, Issues

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• The key role of entrepreneurs, like the most crucial role of scientists, is not to fill in the gaps in an existing market or theory, but to generate entirely new markets or theories. . .They stand before a canvas as empty as any painter's; a page as blank as any poet's.

  George Gilder

  Keys, Entrepreneur, Pages

  George Gilder (1985). “The Spirit of Enterprise”, Simon & Schuster

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• Almost no one will accept responsibility for his or her role in precipitating a crisis: not leveraged speculators, not willfully blind leaders of financial institutions, and certainly not regulators, government officials, ratings agencies or politicians.

  Seth Klarman

  Responsibility, Agency, Government

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• I think Danny Boyle's got it in his head that we all still look too young (to do a 'Trainspotting' sequel.) But, I mean, I don't look like anyone I play, anyways, so I don't really know where that comes from. Because, you know, you change yourself for the roles. I'm actually not Scottish, either!

  Jonny Lee Miller

  Mean, Thinking, Play

  Interview with Will Harris, www.bullz-eye.com. October 14, 2009.

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