There are some roles you just don't say 'no' to. Those compass points: you get them so rarely as an actress.
I always think I'm terrible. So it's always a relief when I find out that I wasn't. I've had roles where I realized that I was in way over my head - and that is my biggest fear.
There's a crowd of people harbored in each person There are so many roles that we play.
You cannot understand the politics of today without understanding the Civil Rights Movement and the role it played in our society.
There's enough of a willingness in the West to do sympathetic movies about Arab roles.
I'm quite a curious person. I don't mind being the one who doesn't know things, a role I often play in QI.
I'm not trying to top anything. I'm trying to be useful, to play a positive role, to serve the public interest.
I am starting to realize that a lot of guys look up to me, ... Older guys, and even younger guys, are asking me questions and [they] ask me about how to handle situations. Im young, but that leadership role has been on me so I need to live up to it.
Sometimes there are customers who get in difficulty because of situations that are out of their control. These are customers with genuine needs, and the role of the bank is to accommodate these customers, and there is a real need to reschedule the loans of these customers.
I love playing odd roles.
Physical roles give me a chance to learn something new.
I want to be in the small percentage of women who don't settle for conventional roles.
I was not only typecast as a Russian, but I was typecast as Yakov Smirnoff. This is understandable, and I was very happy to get the roles, but it would be nice to be in a movie where I could be someone else.
It makes people nervous for one to step out of one's role.
It is true that the role of the state in the Russian economy may be too big today, but from the fiscal standpoint, it is not always practical to do this in a falling market.
I've always seen myself for who I am, which is a lot of things. So, I guess that when I walk into a room, I bring all those things to a role, and I've always just simply seen myself as an actor.
I look for struggle in the roles I choose - struggle and perseverance.
I'm a better person when I'm preparing for a role, when I'm studying a role.
I think part of my reputation has to do with the difficult roles I've played. Actors do tend to get identified with their characters.
NATO's got a vital role to play. It's very important that we protect NATO.
There was one female role, which was Emily. When I did the audition, I flubbed up. It was my first audition back from Christmas break, and I flubbed up and was devastated. In the audition room, they were like, "Oh, you did great!," but you never really know. So, I left the audition in tears.
All of us are playing roles, and there's nothing wrong with playing roles because we have to live in this world - the problem is only when we believe in those roles.
I don't wanna be a role model. I'd like to be an inspiration.
I learned to walk on my own legs, to dive so deeply into a role to forget that Im acting.
I'm not a role model to my kids. They're a role model to me.
