I usually do get to play the very sweet, charming roles... but I'm not an obvious kind of villain.
The idea of writer as sage is pretty much dead today. I would certainly feel very uncomfortable in the role.
I would only take a role that I know I'm comfortable in and I can do. I've turned down plenty of things because I'd feel it's not me, and I wouldn't want to come on someone's project and flip that.
The choosing of a role is so difficult for me. That's the real challenge: to choose the role, not to do the role. Once you've chosen them, the process is much easier.
I don't think of it at the moment, but the roles that interest me are those of young people.
You know who a role model for me is? George Ballanchine
I tend to land roles that are somewhat villainous for some reason. Usually, people blame it on the accent.
The problems with First Ladies is that you have to set the standard. My role is to be both star and slave.
I'd rather a young black actor read about success as opposed to how tough it was. I get these roles because I can act and that's it. Hopefully that's it.
As an actor, you can do what you want with your role. That's why they hire you; to take the role and make it real.
I would love a shot at a lead role, but it's not up to me right now. I just try to make the most out of every opportunity I'm given, and hope somebody will get on my side. Until that happens, I'm just a working actor.
In some roles you do get into a mode of terror. It's always very frightening - the first audiences are frightening.
I've worked for more than 50 years on the stage and I have played great, great, great roles, but I haven't played a great Shakespearean role because they're all male. I'm actually very proud of it.
The three roles that I have always admired are Valjean, Phantom and Jesus and I've enjoyed them all so much.
It's absolutely physically demanding to play the role of Wolverine. There's a lot of action, and I try to do as much of it as I can because it's better for the audience.
Mine was the role of the oilcan in making the machinery clunk around.
China has made important contribution to the world economy in terms of total economic output and trade, and the RMB has played a role in the world economic development. But making the RMB an international currency will be a fairly long process.
We have health insurance companies playing a major role in the provision of healthcare, both to the employed whose employers provide health insurance, and to those who are working but on their own are not able to afford it and their employers either don't provide it, or don't provide it at an affordable price. We are still struggling. We've made a lot of progress. Ten million Americans now have insurance who didn't have it before the Affordable Care Act, and that is a great step forward.
Well I think in a marriage you have to be honest and ask yourself, you know, what is my role? What is my responsibility?
I love making films, but the best roles are hard to come by.
In my view, since the case can be made that knowledge too is a natural kind, the role of pretheoretical intuitions is similarly diminished in epistemology.
The people are led to find in the productive apparatus the effective agent of thought and action to which their personal thought and action can and must be surrendered. And in this transfer, the apparatus also assumes the role of a moral agent. Conscience is absolved by reification.
Governments must now take a leading role in moving their nations in the right direction.
Paradoxically, when females reject the male, they usurp the masculine role and abandon the feminine one.
I've refused roles because they're too simplistic.
