Every actress has to face the facts there are younger, more beautiful girls right behind you. Once you've gone beyond the vanity of the business, you'll take on the tough roles.
There's a terrible truth for many women in the picture business: Aging typically takes its toll and means fewer and less desirable roles.
In Hollywood, you're always playing roles... It's like going through the motions. But in real life, it's like, you gotta take care of business. It's not just the movies.
My criteria when looking for a role is that I will do anything that stands the chance of succeeding on the level it is intended to. After that, if it's a part I can do something personal with.
I'm not seeking out genre films, but this just came my way, and Miramax was good enough to add a role for me because we wanted the chance to work together.
I would like to do a musical, if I could find a cool one. A song-and-dance role is closer to me personally than other characters I play.
The question is always 'What is the role of a labor movement?' How much is about collective bargaining, how much is about social change for all workers?
Each of us has a vital role to play in building a world in which the government and technology serve the world's people and not the other way around.
We will not support returning Fannie and Freddie to the role they played before conservatorship, where they fought to take market share from private competitors while enjoying the privilege of government support.
We're trying to take a leadership role in solving the nation's health-care crisis. We want everybody in this country to have health insurance.
I'd have to fight for an Australian role over an American actor, and I already have to do that overseas, so why would I have to do it back at home?
I hope for my children, and for all Mexicans, that they can be proud to be Mexican, proud of their heritage, and proud that they have a peaceful, inclusive, vibrant country that is playing a role in the world.
As an actor, you hope to find roles that are challenging to you as an artist. Then if you are truly blessed, you will find that it also carries a message that you can impart to your audience.
Happiness is just another of the tricks that our genetic system plays on us to carry out its only role, which is the survival of the species.
I love roles that don't really have a template or a paradigm and force me to create using my own imagination... that really, really turns me on.
When death is imminent and dying patients find their suffering unbearable, then the physician's role should shift from healing to relieving suffering in accord with the patient's wishes.
The motif of death plays an important role the human psyche in connection with archetypal and karmic material.
Every young male actor dreams of being James Bond in an action movie. And that's their first role. But the truth is, when it comes down to it, that's not relatable.
Design should not dominate things, should not dominate people. It should help people. That's its role.
When a woman earns a dollar, the payback is higher. She'll invest in her children, in their education, health care, and basic needs. The impact of a woman's role in the economy benefits society at large.
I don't think actors should ever expect to get a role, because the disappointment is too great. You've got to think of things as an opportunity. An audition's an opportunity to have an audience.
