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.
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I never played the right roles, or very rarely got the right roles offered, except on stage.
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My goal is to just keep playing roles that are different from the roles I've played before.
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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.
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In the West audiences think I am a stereotyped action star, or that I always play hitmen or killers. But in Hong Kong, I did a lot of comedy, many dramatic films, and most of all, romantic roles, lots of love stories. I was like a romance novel hero.
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Of all the roles I've played, none has been as fulfilling as being a mother.
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Soap Opera
Do the Devil
And God switch
Roles in becoming
The writer, creator
Director of our roles?
If not,
What pleasure
Does God get
In making us
Enact the roles
Of a Rapist,
Murderer,
Paedophile
In this life's
Soap Opera?
Is HE a sadist
Relishing the agony
Of helpless victims
Or for such roles
Does Devil the
Writer-Creator-Director
Remain the all-powerful
Producer of such a
Hedonistic, Voyeuristic
Masochistic Thriller?
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SPOKEN
Whitney: Um? hey Deb.
Deborah Cox: Mmm hmm?
WH: Thank you for being woman enough to come.
DC: Whitney, what's this about?
SUNG
WH: I know he's leaving me for you.
DC: Who said that? Who told you that it's true?
WH:
What is he telling you?
Could it be the same things that he told me?
DC: He told me that he loved me.
WH: I heard that.
DC: He told me I was [harmony] beautiful. How did you know? How did you know?
WH: Because I played that scene before.
CHORUS:
This is a retake of my life.
I was his star for many nights.
Now the roles have changed,
And you're the leading lady in his life.
Lights, camera, now you're on.
Just remember you've been warned.
Enjoy it now, 'cause it won't last.
Same script, different cast.
DC:
What you're saying could be true.
But how can I take advice from you?
WH:
I'm not hating,
But I wish the one before me
Would have warned me too babe.
DC: Don't say no more. La La La La La La La La La
WH: Uncover your ears, girl.
DC: I'm not listening. La La La La La La La La La
WH:
But I know you hear me.
Maybe my reasons are wrong,
But I know that you believe me.
CHORUS
DC: It's your fault you didn't love him enough.
WH:
That's the problem.
I loved him too much.
And when you love him
He becomes unattracted to you.
DC: Oh no, he's changed and I'll prove you wrong.
WH: No you won't.
DC: So go away. Leave us the hell alone! He loves me.
WH: He'll hurt you.
DC: He'll stay with me.
WH: He'll leave you.
WH and DC: For sure! For sure!
CHORUS
DC:
This is a retake of my life.
You were his star for many nights.
But now the roles have changed.
I'm the leading lady in his life.
Lights, camera, now you're on.
Just remember you've been warned.
Enjoy it now, 'cause this will last.
I'm the future, you're his past.
WH:
This is a retake of my life.
I was his star for many nights.
Now the roles have changed,
And you're the leading lady in his life.
WH and DC:
Lights, camera, now you're on.
Just remember you've been warned.
WH: Enjoy it now.
DC: Enjoy just now.
WH: It won't last.
DC: I know it will last.
WH and DC: Same script, different cast.
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For most of my career, I've played roles that were written for other actresses.
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After that, I was offered lots of lesbian roles, but I didn't want them because I'd already played the best there was.
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These same people seem to forget that mother also took a lot of chances with the type of roles she played.
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I played a real nasty little girl but most of the roles I had up until then were very sweet and very nice.
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There are a couple of roles I haven't played that I want to. I would love to play Shiloh.
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I had to gain weight until I looked like a seal so I could compete with the real whores who played the other roles. I was fat as a barrel.
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It's upsetting that it is such a big deal. I wish it weren't an issue all the time. It's funny that people say it's a departure, because I've been acting since I was a child. I've played three gay roles out of hundreds.
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Over a spell of about three years, I played a series of roles that were, for me, all very different, but most of them came out within a six-month period. They all dealt with a kind of dark territory that in some cases had been mined before in movies.
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One of the pleasures of being an actor is quite simply taking a walk in someone else's shoes. And when I look at the roles I've played, I'm kind of amazed at all the wonderful adventures I've had and the different things I've learned.
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There are roles I want that my agency might not want me to do because of the subject matter or whatever. Or there are roles that people won't bring to me because they don't think I'll do it. And that is a big strain because an actor wants to act.
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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.
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Men and women have roles - their roles are different, but their rights are equal.
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