Roles Quotes - Page 80

I wish writing was a talent that I had. I've tried. Unfortunately, I'm just not talented in the writing department. But, if I was, I would just write complicated roles for women because there's a lack of them.

You don't get the good roles when you're beautiful.

I've lost a lot of jobs because I was too pretty. And everybody's like "Oh, poor you." But seriously, you don't get the good roles when you're beautiful.

There are not many good roles for women.

I always felt that a marriage works best at a farm... where you're together and everybody has clear-cut roles; they have chores, 'you take care of this' and you know. But it's hard.

In Israel, the role of the writer is dictated by the language in which you write. Writers see themselves as cultural prophets.

I have never been interested in specific roles.

I wanted to build up a little nest egg and go back to L.A. and choose roles that I wanted to do instead of roles that I had to do to pay the bills.

When you don't get a role, it wasn't meant to be.

If by chance people would still offer me roles, I'd still like to do them. But if not, that's OK.

It is not easy to age in harmony with one's roles.

I looked at [Geena Davis] research and see things like 21 percent of filmmakers are women, only 31 percent of speaking roles in popular films are female - you start seeing it everywhere. It's so much bigger. So you've uncovered this groundbreaking data and research.

I would die if Woody Allen ever called and said, 'Emma, I have a role for you.'

I think if you keep an open mind and actively look, you find these really great roles that you might have otherwise never even known were out there.

I did have role models, but most of them were male.

I've actually got turned down for a lot of roles because I'm not bubbly enough. People have told me to be more 'up', but I can't, really. I find it hard to be smiley and giggly all the time.

I love character roles. I'm happier in them. I look for roles that have some kind of complexity.

It was fantastic returning to Being Human. When I got cast in the role, at first I just thought it was for one episode, and the fans were really great about it, and it was really nice having that reaction.

I just want to keep being creative, and I want to feel inspired by a role, and I want to keep acting.

There's a lot of research on the shift in who deals with money when families get in trouble. In good times, husbands handle the family's finances about 80 percent of the time. But when times turn sour and families start dealing with creditors and managing unpayable bills, women take more active roles.

If I am to truly become an autonomous woman, then I must take over that role of being my own guardian.

Islam doesn't have a monopoly on violence in Africa. And violence plays a particularly critical role in places where statehood is weak at best, such as the Maghreb.

I really know right from wrong and apply that to my life. At home, I was the oldest of three. My role was to be the responsible one.

I knew how to act and had studied acting and enjoyed it, but I'd never pushed myself to really perform as an actor, and create a role, and have the whole character's backstory.

I never go to a gym unless I have to for a role, a contract. I try to take care of myself as a human being, not because I have to be in front of the camera.