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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.

  Judy Davis

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• I want to constantly be surprising people with different roles.

  Emma Roberts

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• On ‘Swingtown,’ I think that’s when I was able to blend the character-slash-leading lady roles, and that’s what I’m doing on ‘Once Upon a Time’ as well. She’s a leading lady, but she’s also this character.

  Lana Parrilla

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• I think a lot of the time in films, men get roles where they create their own destiny and women are just tools, supporters for that.

  Ellen Page

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• I never get the tall, blonde, glamorous roles because I’m not tall, blonde and glamorous. I’m more the wee, disturbing characters because of the way I look or sound.

  Shirley Henderson

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• It’s my job in Hollywood to find roles where I get to be a character not a bathing suit.

  Amber Heard

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• I’m half Jewish, but no one believes me because my looks lean a little WASP-y… It’s sometimes hard for me to get the roles I’m drawn to.

  Armie Hammer

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• The reality is that there are so few roles out there for women and for women of color, and I’m a character actor, this I know. And I’m getting to see more of the roles that are out there, but there aren’t many. And zilch have been studio movies. Zilch.

  Octavia Spencer

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• All the world is a stage,
  and all the men and women merely players.
  They have their exits and entrances;
  Each man in his time plays many parts.

  William Shakespeare

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• In my teens or twenties I wanted to do Blanche. Now I’m over that. Those roles are not attracting me now. Which is odd, because that’s what most every actress would want to go do.

  Delta Burke

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• I think all the roles I’ve done have been very passionate people who go to absolute extremes to make their points.

  Michael Rooker

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• In my career, there have been roles I haven’t taken because someone involved with the project gave me a bad vibe. I don’t care how much money is on the table: No job is worth feeling uneasy every day.

  Gabrielle Union

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• I’m always glad to be offered roles, but wouldn’t take any role as this could do you more harm than good, but I’ve been at what they call ‘on the top’ as far as being known for twenty years.

  Peter Cushing

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• Of all the roles I’ve done on the stage, I’m partial to Cyrano de Bergerac.

  Bela Lugosi

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• It’s still not easy to find roles that offer more complex images of women.

  Susan Sarandon

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• But I’m attracted to roles where I get to really go in and explore a character.

  Sheryl Lee

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• We started out when I was 6 years old. We played ukuleles and sang Everly Brothers songs.

  Edgar Winter

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• I was very willing to take on controversial roles that people didn’t really want to look at.

  Rosie Perez

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• The activity of being a husband, a father – those are roles, too, but underneath them is the spiritual center that connects us all, and that’s what’s most important.

  Hugh Jackman

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• Even though these days I’m very selective about what roles I want to do, I will do Stargate anytime they call.

  Ronny Cox

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