Women's roles are diminished for obvious reasons. It's the men whose names are on the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, and who were generals and soldiers.
I will forever be a Bond. It's a small group of men who've made this role. Someone said, More men have walked on the moon than have played James Bond.'
But the fact is, I'm not work-identified. I'm not a lawyer or a writer. I'm a mom, and I'm a woman, and that's the kind of people I want to see in books in the starring role.
Before 'Lucky Louie,' nobody would ever cast me to play a mom or a wife; nobody ever saw me in that role, which is weird, since that's who I really am.
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 didn't know what types of movies I wanted to do. I want to do things that are different. I want to take my time with each role.
For me, it's hard to keep up with trends. I just go for the roles and movies that I feel I could add value to, or contribute to, that I feel I could portray.
There are roles for all types of movies. I mean, you still want to watch the urban movies, and they need to be told. You still want to see something you haven't seen before.
I never want to play the same character twice. I like to do different roles. I have fun with that.
I'm quite a curious person. I don't mind being the one who doesn't know things, a role I often play in QI.
Most problems in poor countries are locally generated even though international factors do play a role.
Any actor who judges his character is a fool - for every role you play you've got to absorb that character's motives and justifications.
Being the person I am, you know, the size I am, being a woman, being a black woman, there's not a lot of roles for us.
My ideal role would be anything that allows me to play anyone the public is familiar with and to be able to show them that, but in a new light.
I want to take roles that challenge me and I want to like the script and obviously feel connected with the director because the director to me is so important.
Any sort of role requires a certain amount of research and embodiment of the character and psychological investigation.
Don't get me wrong, I'm going to play the young role as long as I can because once that ship has sailed, there's no getting back on it.
When people ask, 'What role are you dying to play?' I always say, 'The one being written for me right now.'
The Egyptian military plays positive and negative roles in Egypt, but the most significant single thing it did under Mubarak was to guarantee an Islamist victory once he left the scene.
I want to be a positive role-model for my daughter. The last thing I want to put out there is that it's acceptable to be too thin or have an eating disorder because you're in Hollywood.
As the captain, I was going to be having the dominant role in most of the episodes, and that was appealing. I wasn't interested in coming to Hollywood to sit around.
