When you're a woman in your 40s, it's not the best time to do films, because there really aren't that many roles. Then you reach 50 and there are more roles again. Mother parts.
My role isn't to be politically smart. My role is to do what's right under the constitution. And if that's politically unpopular, so be it.
My ego thinks I would like to be considered for more heavyweight roles, but the price you pay for that is they are always the same kind of roles.
As a parent, I have a job as a role model to my children, and by extension, to other young people.
I like strong female characters. I try to write them as role models for young girls.
I've never been to New Zealand before. But one of my role models, Xena, the warrior princess, comes from there.
I think the best role models for women are people who are fruitfully and confidently themselves, who bring light into the world.
I do not devalue the role of a maid or nanny, or the stereotypical roles that some members of our family have actually done to feed our families in real life.
Sometimes I've felt that the industry has typecast me as a certain kind of character. But then I think all it really takes is one role, the right role, to shake that up and change that perception.
Hopefully I'm a role model for positive change for everyone - not just women. It's very important to find balance between men and women.
I was 17 and the whole thing was very confusing at the time. It was a great job and I loved it, and to lose the role was definitely tough for me. I was devastated when I lost the role.
I love to star in movies, but I want to have good roles. It doesn't help to get starring roles in something that's no good. I mean, that will just kill you.
Every time there's a really good story, there's women in it. We may not get as many roles, but the roles we get are really good, I think, for the most part.
I've been the co-chair of the Non-Partisan Women's Caucus and vice-chair for several years, taking a leadership role in this women's organization.
My role in it was not as central as it was in some of the later cases considering I was younger then and I was playing a role of co-counsel on the case.
I think every role is always exciting and intimidating. I've never had a role where I wasn't intimidated by it.
We've always had a dual role in the region - friend of Israel, and honest broker. We've given up the honest broker role completely.
I landed the role in 'Caddyshack' auditioning, like everybody else. It wasn't a role I thought I'd get, so I had nothing to lose.
Any actor wants to do interesting roles, different roles. It's not all that much fun to do the same thing over and over again.
My role models were childless: Virginia Woolf, Jane Austen, George Eliot, the Brontes.
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?'
