#role

Your old tutor did you a great disservice, Mr. Kynaston. He taught you how to speak, and swoon, and toss your head but he never taught you how to suffer like a woman, or love like a woman. He trapped a man in a woman's form and left you there to die! I always hated you as Desdemona. You never fought! You just died, beautifully. No woman would die like that, no matter how much she loved him. A woman would fight! ↗

— Stage Beauty

#drama #gender-roles #gender-stereotypes #love #anger

I rarely repeat playing the same role in a show. I figured I'd plumbed 90 percent the first time around, so let's move on to something where I'm starting from scratch. ↗

— Hal Linden

#figured #first #first time #i #move

If you come from a normal family, you immediately start playing the role of a boy, a girl a man or a woman, but I'm sure you'll agree with me that those are only roles, limited roles, at that. ↗

— John Lone

#boy #come #family #girl #i

I did this role in Life Goes On as an HIV positive character and so emotionally that was the most challenging. ↗

— Chad Lowe

#character #did #emotionally #goes #hiv

Temperamentally, Sam and I are very much alike. He's a lawyer, my father's a lawyer, and I always wanted to play one. On so many levels the role just felt right. I fell in love with it as I would a woman. ↗

— Rob Lowe

#always #father #fell #felt #i

I go by intuition. Work-wise, that means asking myself if a role will push me outside my comfort zone, challenge me to learn something new. ↗

— Isabel Lucas

#challenge #comfort #comfort zone #go #i

Acting is about covering up traces of who you are and just being the character. I think it's easier to accept people in roles if you don't know a lot about them. ↗

— Peter MacNicol

#accept #acting #being #character #covering

The problems with First Ladies is that you have to set the standard. My role is to be both star and slave. ↗

— Imelda Marcos

#first #ladies #problems #role #set

There aren't a lot of roles written for women who are strong willed. ↗

— Samantha Mathis

#roles #strong #who #willed #women

I can ride and wield blade, and I do not fear either pain or death.' 'What do you fear, lady?' he (Aragorn) asked. 'A cage,' she said. 'To stay behind bars, until use and old age accept them, and all chance of doing great deeds is gone beyond recall or desire. ↗

— J.R.R. Tolkien

#age