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• I worked as an actor for a few years before anything happened, so I'm used to going up for auditions, and then not getting the role. But sometimes I don't read the book of the film, in case I just totally fall in love with it, and then it just becomes an obsession and you want to do it so much because you've completely fallen in love with the story and the characters. And then, if the part doesn't go your way, it's heartbreaking. So, there's a certain amount of distance you have to keep before you can throw yourself in 100%.

  Jim Sturgess

  Falling In Love, Distance, Book

  Source: collider.com

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• To be an actor you need various things. You need to have a head for choosing the roles. You have to be, hopefully, easy to work with so people enjoy working with you. You have to deal with missing roles, with not being asked to work, with doing good work and then being castigated by the critics for it. You have to have a skin that can deal with all of that. I, fortunately, seem to have the makeup which allows me to deal with the business. I mean, not as everybody.

  Jeremy Irons

  Mean, Makeup, People

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I'm not George Clooney, so I can't just pick and choose. I take roles where they occur.

  Daniel Gillies

  Picks, I Can

  Source: collider.com

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• I think that, when you play a mother, whether you play a bad mother or a not so great mother or an amazing mother, being a mother is already so complicated. It's already three-dimensional, automatically, no matter what the role is, because you're playing a mother.

  Eva Mendes

  Mother, Thinking, Play

  Source: collider.com

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• I wish writing was a talent that I had. I've tried. Unfortunately, I'm just not talented in the writing department. But, if I was, I would just write complicated roles for women because there's a lack of them.

  Eva Mendes

  Writing, Wish, Talent

  Source: collider.com

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• I think that mentoring is such a critical part of the role I can play in my position. I see how little bits of exposure and big bits of exposure really change my girls significantly, and I want that for more girls around the country and the world.

  Michelle Obama

  Girl, Country, Thinking

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• I love being in space. I love being challenged by great roles that a company like Marvel creates amazing movies that no only give audiences an adventure but also give us as artists an opportunity for us to be challenged to embody amazing, multilayered characters.

  Zoe Saldana

  Adventure, Character, Artist

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• I may not be a role model, but I most definitely could be motivation for a lot of people in the hoods.

  Rick Ross

  Motivation, People, Role Models

  "13 Questions With Rick Ross". Interview with Emma McKay, www.askmen.com.

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• Growing up, I always had my dreams set on being an actor, so I looked up to Julia Roberts, Audrey Hepburn. I also look up to Kate Winslet and Renée [Zellweger] and Cate Blanchett...and Diane Keaton - she's a genius. I think it's very inspiring to see these women attack such complex roles.

  Katie Holmes

  Dream, Growing Up, Thinking

  "Exclusive! Katie Holmes Talks!". Interview with Sheila Weller, www.glamour.com. March 1, 2009.

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• I can't tell you how many couples I know where the husband and the wife are both in the military and have deployed together, and they've got kids, and so I think times have changed and gender roles have blurred when it comes to the military.

  Tanya Biank

  Husband, Couple, Military

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• Catholicism is a really mean religion, and it's incredibly hypocritical. But it plays a role in my life 'cause you can't really get a lot of things out of your head, such as what Jesus Christ looks like and that divorce is a horrible thing.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Jesus, Mean, Divorce

  Source: www.ultramadonna.com

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• I would put all the efforts to humanize the "masculine" and "feminine" gender roles that are the beginning of a false human hierarchy and normalize race, class and other systems of domination to come.

  Gloria Steinem

  Race, Masculine And Feminine, Class

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• What draws me to roles, I think, are moments - moments that define character, where so much more of the story is told in just a moment - a look, a line, a short scene, but something that speaks a volume, something that speaks to me.

  Nathan Fillion

  Character, Thinking, Looks

  "Sundance Interview: Nathan Fillion on Waitress and Firefly!". Interview with Alex Billington, www.firstshowing.net. January 30, 2007.

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• I do it when I'm a preparing for a role quite a bit - I sit with music. It helps influence the discovery of something. Then sometimes during filming I like to listen to the same things. It brings me back to a place where I just feel more creative and focused.

  Rami Malek

  Discovery, Creative, Helping

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I hope to never stop growing. I hope that with every role I play, I keep adding layers to my craft. I love acting and I study religiously with my coach.

  Eva Mendes

  Play, Acting, Layers

  Source: editorial.rottentomatoes.com

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• Working with Gabby [Sidibe], I realized immediately that she was amazingly talented. I could tell just by the way she'd get into the role.

  Lenny Kravitz

  Way, I Realized

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• I was watching an interview with Martin Scorcese concerning Raging Bull, which is one of my favorite films, and he was talking about how he'd worked with a lot of guys who weren't quote-unquote "actors," like Joe Pesce and Frank Vincent. Scorcese was very smart in the way that he cast, because you don't know where you're going to find the right person who can carry a role and summon that emotion you're looking for.

  Lenny Kravitz

  Smart, Talking, Guy

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• There are children who recognize that they have a special role, and they enjoy it. But there are also many who sense that they can't do what the others can do, and they're happy to be placed in a protected school. It depends on their personalities.

  Gotz Aly

  Children, School, Personality

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• Some actors pride themselves on disappearing into a role. I'm into the game because I like experiencing and exploring themes, so I put a lot of myself into the person.

  Jake M. Johnson

  Pride, Games, Actors

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

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• It's really nice to go down to an extremely low-budget movie, but that is very daring and courageous and try something different, where the roles usually are more complicated.

  Stellan Skarsgard

  Nice, Trying, Different

  "Stellan Skarsgard Exclusive Interview; Talks THOR, MELANCHOLIA, and David Fincher’s THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. December 29, 2010.

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• I just think of interesting roles to play. I guess that I have matured, I guess growing up and becoming a man, your taste in characters changes and I think I have become more interested in active characters as I have become less contemplative in my personal life. Things have become a little bit more interesting in the doing these days and less interesting in the thinking about the doing.

  Josh Hartnett

  Growing Up, Character, Men

  "Interview: Josh Hartnett Talks 30 Days Of Night". Interview with Joe Utichi, editorial.rottentomatoes.com. November 1, 2007.

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• You learn so much from making mistakes, not even necessarily mistakes that I've made, a lot of the time the films just don't work out because it's a really difficult process. And sometimes there's a certain person underlining process. But I've had an opportunity to work on all different types of films and I have had a lot of opportunities to stretch myself in different ways and now is the time where I get to try and figure out out the roles that I can really play well and play them well.

  Josh Hartnett

  Mistake, Opportunity, Play

  "Interview: Josh Hartnett Talks 30 Days Of Night". Interview with Joe Utichi, editorial.rottentomatoes.com. November 1, 2007.

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• After Princess Diaries, I was labeled a good girl, and for the first eight years of my career I had to fight to get any other kind of role. But I like fighting for a job, actually. Once you get it, you feel like you've emerged victorious from the scrap and you're like, "OK, this one's mine. Did it. Done."

  Anne Hathaway

  Girl, Jobs, Princess

  "Anne Hathaway Talks About Her Husband, Her Haters, and More in Her January 2013 Glamour Interview". Interview with Eve Ensler, www.glamour.com. December 4, 2012.

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• Every person that steps up and commits to social change helps solidify the black movement cause. It is not easy for those who fill in the leader role.

  Assata Shakur

  Leader, Black, Movement

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• Too many young actors are strutting about and doing films without having developed some of the depth you need to bring off certain kinds of roles. I think that's the problem with the system, where a lot of younger actors who haven't had a chance to develop suddenly become stars.

  Christopher Walken

  Stars, Thinking, Depth

  Source: www.gamesradar.com

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