Right now I just want to play good roles, and if the role happens to be a gay man, that's not of any import other than, 'Is it a good story? Does it say something that's interesting?'
I think male roles are generally much better written. So for actresses, we're always dealing with trying to inject a role with more truth than the writer possibly had in mind.
Well, clearly Apple is a role model of the American innovation whereby it produced all these products - iPod, iPhone, iPad - that are really now dominating all the technology arena in the world.
Music is your own talent and is an important tool. Even if you don't want to be a role model, get ready to be in the public eye. Energy is there, you just have to use it.
There are a lot of roles in Shakespeare, basically. If I feel that the script is a movie, I would be interested in doing any role of Shakespeare's.
I think that in the Christian community, we're lacking a lot of things, and I don't know that it's just children's role models.
Making me into a role model is placing too much importance on what I see as a work in progress.
I think every role you get is going to be a powerful one. As long as you go in with the mindset of, 'Yeah, I'm going to make the most of this.' So that's the kind of attitude I take into each role that I play.
I believe very firmly that gay people of every stripe and age should be role models for all children, and that means interacting with them.
If I want to be the sexy Bipasha Basu, then I'll do a song here or a glam role there. But I want to be part of films that are watched, films that earn money and are new age, with author-backed roles.
My dad was my best friend and greatest role model. He was an amazing dad, coach, mentor, soldier, husband and friend.
It feels great to be a role model and I'm very careful with the things I do. I'm not perfect, I do make a lot of mistakes, but I try my best.
I think the best thing about being James Brown is looking at my little son. Hopefully I can make my son a role model to a lot of people.
If what I say or what I do affects others who look up to me as a role model, that pleases me so much.
Young people, for whom I should have been a role model and an uncle, duplicated my worst habits and died as a result.
If you write interesting roles, you get interesting people to play them. If you write roles that are full of nuance and contradiction and have interesting dialog, actors are drawn to that.
When you've played Buffy - who's such a strong female role model - it's really hard for another female character to compare to her.
I think every young actor in Los Angeles went up for that role. It was between Frankie Muniz and me, and he pulled out, so I got the role.
No, I like being a role model because I know how much comfort my musical idols brought me.
I want to do roles that will challenge me. I'm definitely interested in period pieces. But I definitely don't want to limit myself. I'm very open to different roles.
In choosing any role, I ask the same questions: what kind of part is it? is the role challenging? does the director have a vision? is the story moving? etc.
