#roles

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

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

— Zoe Saldana

#i #percentage #roles #settle #small

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

— Maximilian Schell

#got #i #never #offered #played

I tend to turn down roles that are too much like me, what I think is most like me anyhow, because I'm me all the time and I'm sick of it. ↗

— Campbell Scott

#because #down #i #i think #like

I want to take roles that challenge me and I want to like the script and obviously feel connected with the director because the director to me is so important. ↗

— Amy Smart

#challenge #connected #director #feel #i

There are a couple of roles I haven't played that I want to. I would love to play Shiloh. ↗

— David Ogden Stiers

#haven #i #love #play #played

What are you?' he [Nanapush] said to Damien, who was deep in a meditation over his [chess] bishop's trajectory. 'A priest' said Father Damien 'A man priest or a woman priest?'... ...'I am a priest', she whispered, hoarsely, fierce. 'Why' said Nanapush kindly, as though Father Damien hadn't answered, to put the question to rest, 'are you pretending to be a man priest? ↗

— Louise Erdrich

#gender-roles #native-american-reservation #patriarchy #priest #catholicism

I figured as I got older, the good roles for women would be in the theatre. So 15 years ago I started building a Broadway career to try and develop the chops to be accepted as a great theatrical actress. ↗

— Kathleen Turner

#actress #ago #broadway #building #career

You ride as a man, fight as a man, and you think as a man-" "I think as a human being," she retorted hotly. "Men don't think any differently from women- they just make more noise about being able to. ↗

— Tamora Pierce

#gender-stereotypes #humour #men

Men are biological. Women are biological. We pretend our minds are in control, but that’s a very tenuous control at best, and a civilized society can’t be built on uncontrolled biology. I see it in my work: intelligence betrayed by lust, by jealousy, by macho ownership; otherwise trustworthy men who can’t be trusted at all around women, or vice versa. Hell, look at Congress. Well-intentioned, progressive, admired law-makers who end up losing it all because they can’t control how they react to women! And I certainly don’t trust most women around men ↗

— Sheri S. Tepper

#family