I don't want to play everything. So I'll seek out roles that I'll say, 'This is edgy. This is fun. This is wicked. This suits me.'
I want to play Martin Luther King. That is absolutely a role and a character who is important to the landscape of the world that I really want to play.
I admire Brad Pitt. He hasn't just done leading-man hunky roles; he's done a lot of edgier things.
I think that in any role you have, whether TV or film, it's hard to do comedy and drama within one story.
The choices of roles I made had to do with educating and entertaining. And as a result I found myself working only every two or three years.
My role was to bring about fairness in the workplace. All I did was implement the laws that were currently on the books.
I think any role you need to play not so much transforms but I like to think of it as understanding the psychology of another character.
What happens with every role, you have to trick yourself, you have to creatively find ways to explore the mental state of your character.
The first film role I deliberately chose to play after I came out was a raging heterosexual, John Profumo.
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.
