For most of my career, I've played roles that were written for other actresses.
quote by Victoria Abril
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You have actresses like Meryl Streep and Julia Roberts, who have roles specially written for them.
quote by Leslie Caron
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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.
quote by Judy Davis
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As far as the lack of hits goes, I think perhaps it's because I've played a lot of different roles and have not created a persona that the public can latch on to. I have played everything from psychopathic killers to romantic leading men, and in picking such diverse roles I have avoided typecasting.
quote by Jeff Bridges
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I never played the right roles, or very rarely got the right roles offered, except on stage.
quote by Maximilian Schell
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My goal is to just keep playing roles that are different from the roles I've played before.
quote by Alicia Witt
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I'm ambitious but I'm not particularly competitive. I'll try to get roles, as I think it's healthy to go for things, but... I think there's too much competition between women already. It's important to have female solidarity and support each other and other actresses.
quote by Rose Byrne
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The great actresses and actors receive awards for great roles in great films.
quote by Gloria Stuart
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Truffaut loved actresses, and he was very intense. All the actresses I knew wanted to do a film with him.
quote by Catherine Deneuve
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I'm just a pack mule. I've played leads and I've played character roles. Any actress in Hollywood will tell you as your age climbs, the leads thin.
quote by Marcia Gay Harden
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Your job is not your career
I responsible to my job, I fight for my career
I bound to job, I grow with career
Job is described, career is developed
Job is fulfilled, career is achieved
Job is for living, career is for life
poem by Maria Sudibyo
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I don't see myself as competing with other actresses. I mean, I went through a time when I was in New York, and I was going to lots of auditions and trying to get parts, but even then, you're not really competing with the other actresses. There is a competition going on, but it's not like something you can win in that way.
quote by Annette Bening
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So there's no such thing as one too many this, one too many that. I remember, you're reminding me of early in my career, somebody said to me: why are you taking so many roles as a policeman.
quote by Harvey Keitel
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I read the script, and I knew it was a good part. It was written for a white actor. That's what I'm up against - I have to try to make roles happen for me that aren't written black.
quote by Gregory Hines
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Act the Part
I am an actor on this stage of life.
My role is factored into all the scenes
Beginning with an innocent delight.
My birth and babbling lines by any means
Directed all attention to this part.
A ham at birth and cute, I was a star.
The photographs and modeling apart
From some occasional fluffing thus far
I acted many roles that came my way.
Until my public image lost its lure
I found myself without a scene to play
Except the one where life shown me the door
A role I never played in my career
An empty lonely man, alone in tears.
poem by Albert Ahearn
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I am going to spend my time today just thanking the people that played a role in my career, because I truly do believe that I was blessed by a lot of people that paths crossed mine as I went down the road in my career.
quote by Nolan Ryan
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However, I'm at a very comfortable place in my career and celebrity, in that I don't have to audition as extensively as I used to for roles but yet I'm not immediately recognizable.
quote by Claire Danes
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As my career progresses, I just hope that I can do roles and do things that I can really sink my teeth into and really step up to challenges that I dream of.
quote by Emmanuelle Chriqui
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My whole career strategy has been to build a base so that I could take the roles I want to play. I'd hate to think that a shorter part might not be available because I was worried about my billing.
quote by Jack Nicholson
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Of all the roles I've played, none has been as fulfilling as being a mother.
quote by Annette Funicello
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Like all things, not being typecast in Hollywood it's a blessing and a curse. There is probably added simplicity to a career where you can be identified for the kinds of roles you can - and should - play as an actor.
quote by Greg Kinnear
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