The multiple roles that women can play in a society if given the opportunity is really a tremendous asset.
My biggest thing about being a role model is whatever I'm preaching, I'm practicing.
When I do film, I really take on roles and I take on characters.
The media sells it and you live the role.
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.
I'm in a fortunate position that sometimes you just get offered roles - they're not necessarily the roles you take, but to get offered a film is amazing. I think the work you've done before that is why you get it.
Success in one role can't justify failure in another.
All the fans know my love for Chelsea and I hope to be back here in the future in another role.
I think that I've still not been successful at playing the role of the retired actor, and I'd like to work on that.
To be a part of something like 'Tron,' good God! It doesn't matter how big or small your role is, you're like, 'Yeah, I was in 'Tron. ''
I had a good theater career for years. I played Hamlet when I was 22, and I've played some really great roles.
The trailblazers are my role models in this industry: Sidney Poitier, Harry Belafonte, James Earl Jones, and Billy Dee Williams. I keep their pictures in my trailer and try to measure to their standards every time I act.
The roles that men and women play are no longer the standard traditional roles of way back when but are those of two very individual people living their lives. I think it's been a hard transition in society - just take a look at the divorce rate - to figure out what that means now. How do you resolve that?
It is men who face the biggest problems in the future, adjusting to their new and complicated role.
You'll never see any two good actors approach a role in the same way.
In my role of agent for Miss Hathaway, I would like to say that she does not answer questions relating to this subject.
I don't really have any dream roles. It's just things, which come up.
There is a sense in which the United States ambassador speaks to the United States, as well as for the United States. I have always seen my role as a thermostat rather than a thermometer. So I'm going to be actively working. . . for my own concerns. I have always had people advise me on what to say, but never on what not to say.
If it suits [God] to be a deity that we must seek without being forced to, would it not have been sensible for him to use the mechanism of evolution without posting obvious road signs to reveal his role in creation?
One of the things I love most about acting is just disappearing in the role, as much as I can. I think that's one of the things that intrigued me about it.