#roles

You become very angry and depressed that you keep getting offered only these exceedingly demure and repressed roles. They're so not me. That's why films like Fight Club were so important to me because I think I confounded certain stereotypes and limited perceptions of what I could do as an actress. ↗

— Helena Bonham Carter

#angry #because #become #certain #club

I always look for reality. I look for plain truthful roles. ↗

— Jim Caviezel

#i #i always #look #plain #reality

I'm used to working really hard to get a role. I was always auditioning and talking my way into roles. ↗

— Jessica Chastain

#auditioning #get #hard #i #into

People were confused by me, and at first I was auditioning a lot for the crazy characters or the victim, someone who'd been attacked. Which is great, because usually those are the best acting roles. ↗

— Jessica Chastain

#attacked #auditioning #because #been #best

As an actress I take roles I find interesting. ↗

— Emma Watson

#find #i #interesting #roles #take

I choose my roles carefully. ↗

— Catherine Deneuve

#choose #i #roles

There are times when I don't take roles because I don't want to be perceived a certain way. ↗

— Harvey Fierstein

#certain #certain way #i #perceived #roles

My childhood was influenced by the roles my father played in his movies. Whether Abraham Lincoln or Tom Joad in the 'Grapes of Wrath,' his characters communicated certain values which I try to carry with me to this day. ↗

— Jane Fonda

#abraham lincoln #carry #certain #characters #childhood

It was great to play an ex-marine cockney thug. All my roles are as different as the colours of the rainbow. ↗

— Luke Treadaway

#colours #different #great #play #rainbow

At about 40, the roles started slowing down. I started getting offers to play mothers and grandmothers. ↗

— Kathleen Turner

#down #getting #grandmothers #i #mothers