I have no idea what makes a director believe in me that I can sell these kind of roles.
One of the ways that people avoid taking responsibility for their role in their own pain is what I call the BPs - blame and projection.
People like Spencer Tracy held up because they had the background originally, but to this day they never have changed Mr. Gable's role, or most of them.
Well, the only way I can get a leading-man role is if I write it.
I happen to be one who believes very strongly that state and local governments have their proper roles.
My role is to embody the Black Opium woman - I suppose you have to be the living embodiment of all the intangible things the brand stands for.
Watching Jodie on this is incredible; it's the perfect role for her. It's so intense and so emotional. She just jumped right into it and is so professional.
The Sherpas play a very important role in most mountaineering expeditions, and in fact many of them lead along the ridges and up to the summit.
The role of a liberal arts college within a university is to be a genuine part of that university, giving and responding to the other parts.
There are so many roles on TV that I don't covet. I see them, and I'm glad I don't have to play them.
The roles I'm interested in or have been interested in, you know, it's going to get down to conflict. Drama is conflict - conflict of interests.
In film roles, I play a lot of heavies and a lot of bad guys, so I tend to be the jokester and the good-time Charlie on the set.
The role seemed to demand that I keep myself worked up to fever pitch, so I took on the actual attributes of the horrible vampire, Dracula.
It took me years to live down Dracula and convince the film producers that I would play almost any other type of role.
Learning is about seeing things froma a different perspective. My role is to help people improve their vision
I believe one day nano-robots will play an important role in medicine.
I want to be able to follow the example of those extraordinary British actresses who move effortlessly from film to TV to theatre roles.
The first priority of any serious program against poverty is to strengthen the male role in poor families.
I was trained to be an actor, not a star. I was trained to play roles, not to deal with fame and agents and lawyers and the press.
I think a lot of actors take on fun roles and then they're lazy or flippant with them. I just can't do that.
I'm vain enough to want do a movie again, but right now more roles are the last thing on my list.
