Right now music is more my outlet than acting, but I'm waiting for that one satisfying role.
NGOs have a significant role to play, alongside governments, in improving the status of women.
As an actor, I've always been interested in making sure I can perform the role and the lines in the way the writer intended.
It's like every day is the worst day of your life. And you're trapped and you're scared and you have to portray those emotions in every take and really take yourself to those places. (about her role as an abused wife in ENOUGH.
When I find a role I want to play, I just go after it.
I've always done roles that really appealed to me on a gut level and which I found inspiring.
I couldn't really experience being an author when I was still working in publishing - I was trying to negotiate being both. Sometimes the knowledge doesn't translate between the two roles.
I've made my mind up that I will only do a film that I really, really love. I'm determined to lie low until a role comes along that really makes me want to work.
I read a script and I know immediately whether that role is for me or not.
I need to make sure that I'm taking roles that I feel like I can communicate through.
My role models are Bettie Page and Mia Kirshner. Every day when Mia comes to work she raises the bar for us all.
I'm not a role model or the poster child for how to do anything.
Tilda Swinton is a great example of a person who completely disappears into a role.
I know acting is not impersonating, but I'm good with impressions. I can do impressions of people I know, and people I've been, and roles that I've acted before.
It's the American leadership that has not played the role it should be playing and that leaders in other countries have been playing.
All actors are looking for that role that's going to define who they are. When it happens, it's a good thing.
So when you make an impression in a certain kind of role, that tends to be the type of role that you get offered.
There just arent that many Jesus roles around.
My role as a producer is very specific. It's maintaining the creative truthfulness, day in and day out.
I have done all of the genres, and the dramatic role is my favorite.
The biggest compliment I think an actor can get is I can't imagine anyone else in the role.
Any role that big is going to be a challenge for any actor, but for an actor of a young age, it's going to be even tougher.
I watched a lot of Douglas Fairbanks movies. He always played the same role with a mustache. Zorro had a mustache. The Musketeer had a mustache. Tarzan had a mustache.
It's hard to say what role race really played in my case.
I don't know how one would define an affirmative-action hire. I ultimately do not know what role race played in my hiring.
