#roles

I like roles that are on the extreme ends of the spectrum, and there's special appeal in exploring these slightly forgotten plays that people might think of as subjects for academic term papers instead of live theater. ↗

— Geoffrey Rush

#appeal #ends #exploring #extreme #forgotten

I have no specific ideas in mind of what I will or won't do; it's all about the roles. ↗

— Jeri Ryan

#i #ideas #mind #roles #specific

It's also a question of finding good material and interesting roles. I'm not the only actress out there, and good parts just don't fall into your lap that easily. But I like most of the films I've made recently and so I'm pretty positive about the future. ↗

— Winona Ryder

#actress #also #easily #fall #films

I want to be in the small percentage of women who don't settle for conventional roles. ↗

— Zoe Saldana

#i #percentage #roles #settle #small

Physical roles give me a chance to learn something new. ↗

— Zoe Saldana

#give #give me #learn #me #new

As a kid, I'd go into the bathroom when I was having a tantrum. I'd be in the bathroom crying, studying myself in the mirror. I was preparing for future roles. ↗

— Adam Sandler

#crying #future #go #having #i

I had my moments of being humiliated, and then I had moments of doing something humiliating. I'm glad I lived out both roles. ↗

— Adam Sandler

#both #doing #glad #had #humiliated

I just pick the best roles that are left over, and they usually aren't the heterosexual, leading-man, non-drug-addict parts. And once you get into doing them, people know you do them. ↗

— Peter Sarsgaard

#doing #get #heterosexual #i #into

If you go in and audition for roles rather than just be offered them, then you kind of get a chance to kind of discover that you can do something that you didn't think you could do. ↗

— Peter Sarsgaard

#chance #could #discover #get #go

I never played the right roles, or very rarely got the right roles offered, except on stage. ↗

— Maximilian Schell

#got #i #never #offered #played