#roles

The girl-next-door image is a sort of joke; for years, I couldn't get any roles other than as somebody dark. ↗

— Felicity Kendal

#dark #get #girl-next-door #i #image

I've always been into films. I've been offered lots of films but they've always been these very stereotypical roles. They wanted me to play some gangster or street guy, or pimp, drug addict. ↗

— Lenny Kravitz

#always #been #drug addict #films #gangster

The first year with ABT I learned 13 new roles. Most were lengthy ballets, more complicated than I was used to. I have suffered from tendinitis since I was 13, and it flared up again until the pain was paralyzing. There were times I prayed I'd be sick so I wouldn't have to go on. ↗

— Gelsey Kirkland

#ballets #complicated #first #go #i

I have no desire to play most of the roles being offered. ↗

— Kathleen Turner

#desire #i #most #offered #play

I am really not of the school of naturalism. I like style, and you can use more style in theater than in film roles. I love to sink my teeth into a part. ↗

— Marisa Tomei

#film #i #i am #i love #into

People think that my favorite roles to do are villains, but I find comedy to be the most challenging and rewarding. ↗

— Christopher Walken

#comedy #favorite #find #i #most

So now I feel I'm lucky in the respect that I can sort of pick a little more carefully, which is tricky because as a black actress, there aren't that many roles to pick from. ↗

— Rachel True

#because #black #carefully #feel #i

I think real life reflects your movies. In your life, you pick stuff that influences what movie roles you wanna pick. I think if you've got an interesting life, you wanna do interesting movies about interesting things. ↗

— Chris Tucker

#got #i #i think #influences #interesting

I don't condemn anyone for making their choices. If someone chooses those roles, fine. But not for me. When someone stops me and says, You're the reason I became an actress, that lets me know I made the right decision. ↗

— Cicely Tyson

#anyone #became #choices #chooses #condemn

In the contract days, the big studios groomed us to play particular roles and we would stay with the image they gave us and insisted on. ↗

— Robert Wagner

#big studios #contract #days #gave #groomed