No one's calling me for lawyer roles. I still have a lot to do to prove myself.
If you look at any of the greats, from people like Paul Newman and Robert Redford to, you know, Brad Pitt - to get any of the kinds of roles like the ones that they've gotten, or just to be a part of any of the kinds of movies they've made, would be the end-all for me.
I will jump into most any role.
If I'm going to leave my family for any length of time, it had better be for a role that I haven't played before, with great people. It had better be fun.
There's Hobbes, who understood in the 1640s that the sovereign is not an appointee of God, or even a figure of superior virtue and wisdom, but just a functional device whose role is to keep people from hurting and killing each other.
I've worked with Andre Techine lately and with a young unknown director on a short film. I choose my roles carefully.
It's interesting when you get those roles, which seem like nothing on the page, and you kind of subvert them. It's hard to say no.
With a role like Hedda Gabler, which is incredibly complicated, you often feel that you haven't even scratched the surface the first time around, so you relish the opportunity to do it again, particularly with an ensemble of actors and the company we assembled. But when you do that in films you somehow have to make some attempt to uncross people's arms and you have to justify why you're doing it.
My values are non-negotiable. And if it means not getting a role, it means not getting a role.
My role in the Mamas and Papas was basically just to sing.
I play a huge variety of roles
I take away something from every role.
E-readers are changing the way we read, and the author is now required to get out there and be a kind of showman, an unlikely role for introspective people used to working in their pajamas!
Well, the role of money in politics is pretty corrupting right now.
I understand that I'm a role model.
There are many mediocre entertainers who don't aspire to much more than fame and glory. It's very easy to have them as your role models because there aren't as many greats.
If you ask me right now, you've seen the last of Mind of Mencia. I don't want to be a one-trick pony. I would rather walk away and do more movies, comedy and even some dramatic roles.
There's so much hate that we direct externally that we forget we have our own psychos. But that's the role of the satirist - you have to examine your own country and say, look!
The role of the judge is simply to decide cases.
The government needs a role in carrying out exploration. They will be leading the development of the engines that are needed, and the private sector will take advantage of those.
Montgomery's unique role in the domestic slave trade was that it was the first community that had a rail line that connected the Deep South to the mid-Atlantic region.
We are creatures on this planet that have the capacity of self-awareness, playing out our role just the same as all else.
Even if we are destroying this planet, we are playing our role perfectly.
Molly Shannon such an interesting actress that portrays vulnerability and danger at the same time, because she seems brittle in that role.
I appreciate my role as an actor much more after I direct because it's just easier.
