I'll read a script maybe twice, but I'll think about the role more than I'll rehearse lines.
My first lead role was probably 'Party Girl' in 1994.
God has no role to play in politics except to make sure politicians go where they belong. To hell.
The media sells it and you live the role.
It isn't so much that I choose the roles - I mean, I guess there's a little bit of a selection process - but it's more just what people offer you.
Those of us who understand human history know the role taxation has played in shaping the destiny of mankind. The matter of taxes - more specifically, the right to tax - is clearly no stranger to controversy and has frequently served as the catalyst for revolutionary change.
I have always felt my role as a designer is to do the very best I can for a woman to make her look her best. Fashion is only fashion once a woman puts it on.
In western countries, there are roles written for older actors. Films are made on them, including love stories.
It's great to know you've earned your place and to know that you are right for the role because my biggest fear is being offered something and showing up on set and doing one day and everyone going, "Oh geez, oh no, this isn't, she isn't.." and feeling that way myself.
It's boring to play the girl role!
I have a great management team and great agents that assist me, and I take roles in feature films that I hope will show my other talents other than just comedy.
2005 was a great year for me for fantastic roles that nobody saw.
I'm an actor and I am looking for roles where I can continue to evolve, and things that are challenging. I gravitate to the roles, not necessarily television or film. It's just the fact that, for me, the most interesting roles have been in television.
Unfortunately, there's a lack of roles for women of color, so you actually have to be the engineer creating some of those roles.
I sort of have open invitations from a lot of people to do TV. But it's very hard for me to do roles in sitcoms and movies because I'm not a great actor, so if the material isn't good, I'm in torment while I do it.
I happen to agree with the anti-dictatorship policies, but I don't think it's the role of General Electric to support them or oppose them. They do of course, but I don't agree with that.
I don't like piracy but if anybody's concerned about piracy, why don't they pay attention to our role in it?
After every movie, you get offered the role that you just did in the last movie.
It can really vary from movie to movie what the producer's role is and there are all kinds of producers. There are line producers who do a lot of the nuts and bolts work on the set.
I've had to adapt my wardrobe to my various roles, both at the office, as a mom, and for television. When I shop for the season I look for pieces that will suit every facet of my daily life, not just one single occasion.
Being a mentor is something that's new for me but a role that I take very seriously.
[As a producer] [Big Little Lies] is the stories of women that I know, and it was a way in which we could go to other women and say, "Here's a great role. There's five great roles here. They're all complicated. They all deserve to be told, and are you interested?" And that is rare.
It's very, very rare to find five roles in one piece where we'd all jump at the chance to play any of them.
When we met, my agenda was "Get Elle Fanning." I believe Elle's was "Get the role." But we didn't know that.
A lot of the time, in the past, I have played the pretty blonde in a lot of roles.
