#roles

In TV, when you're doing guest roles, you're gliding into a zone where people are already very comfortable. They go in and go to work every day. You're coming in, and it's a brand-new environment, so you have to get it... and then you're gone again. ↗

— Stephen Root

#already #brand-new #comfortable #coming #day

These same people seem to forget that mother also took a lot of chances with the type of roles she played. ↗

— Isabella Rossellini

#chances #forget #lot #mother #people

My main aim has always been to do good quality films with roles that have some substance. With Power and Beauty there were loads of things that I liked about the movie, which made me opt for it. ↗

— Natasha Henstridge

#aim #always #beauty #been #films

Some of the supporting roles that I've done as an actor, I took them because I knew that I would get to watch some of the leading guys in the movies, and also I'd get to work with them. ↗

— Thomas Jane

#also #because #done #get #guys

Girls see these defined roles they're supposed to follow in life, but when I was a young child, my parents told me I could be anything. ↗

— Joan Jett

#child #could #defined #follow #i

In microbiology the roles of mutation and selection in evolution are coming to be better understood through the use of bacterial cultures of mutant strains. ↗

— Edward Lawrie Tatum

#better understood #coming #cultures #evolution #mutant

I was really overwhelmed by the amount of roles that I got offered that were carbon copies of what I did in 'Up in the Air.' I got every offer for every ambitious, unfeeling practically robotic character. ↗

— Anna Kendrick

#ambitious #amount #carbon #character #copies

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. ↗

— Shirley Knight

#because #best #best time #films #many

I find more interesting roles for women in period pieces. I do personally like watching period films; I think you can really get lost in the fantasy of them. ↗

— Keira Knightley

#films #find #get #i #i do

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

— Zoe Saldana

#i #percentage #roles #settle #small