Fairy tales and folk tales have always played a role in my writing in one way or another.
We're comfortable with women in certain roles but not comfortable with women expressing anger or fully accepting their power. The most daring question a woman can ask is, 'What do I want?'
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.
As an actor, you always want to find a piece of who you are in every role you take on.
I want to be a positive influence. I want to be someone who they want to call in and want here consistently, regardless of my role.
One result of An American Family was that I became a gay role model.
Playing a robot is possibly the most difficult role you can have as an actor, because you have to take all your innate emotional responses and completely suppress them. Even the way you walk is affected.
Take me and my role seriously. Take my talent seriously.
My biggest role model? Def my Mom and my sisters!
The beauty of a language is, generally judged by its soft or rigid, melodious or harsh, ring. Other aspects, such as the flexibility of derivation, play hardly any role in grading. Were it the case, Russian would certainly be placed on the winner’s stand. It would rank first in plasticity.
I'd love to play Carmen - it's the perfect mezzo role.
I would never accept a role that wasn't going to stretch me or challenge me in some way. I'd say Holy Smoke! probably did that more than anything I'd ever done. It took me to places I didn't actually know I could go to, and that's what I want my career to be all about.
You are probably right when you say that I could get a role in any producer's film if I just asked.
I took the role of Ophelia in Hamlet because she is so naive, loving, and innocent.
I'm always being asked to play roles or characters that I don't really resemble.
I think [Donald Trump] is going to be inaugurated this week. I have great concerns, and apparently Republicans do as well, and there's going to be an investigation about the role that Russian hacking played in getting him elected.
I was a member of the Armed Services Committee for 18 years. I spent a big chunk of my life studying national security issues and our role in the world.
I wasn't going to let Jerry Sloan embarrass me, because basketball had a proper role in my life. I suspected my basketball philosophy wasn't the bottom line anyway.
I'd love to act more. I've had to turn down multiple movies because I was on tour, but it's encouraging to know that someday there might be the right role, the right timing. And I've been writing a lot of music, so hopefully very soon I'll have recorded a project of my own. I also want to get a boat and open a restaurant.
Who are we beyond the roles that we play?
I approach writing stories as a recorder. I think of my role as some kind of reporting device - recording and projecting.
For any role, I pretty much always go to the script, first and foremost.
Well, I'm lucky because, you see, I'll probably bounce back from this role.
Prisons are woefully ill-equipped for their current role as the nations primary mental health facilities.
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.
