#roles

Your old tutor did you a great disservice, Mr. Kynaston. He taught you how to speak, and swoon, and toss your head but he never taught you how to suffer like a woman, or love like a woman. He trapped a man in a woman's form and left you there to die! I always hated you as Desdemona. You never fought! You just died, beautifully. No woman would die like that, no matter how much she loved him. A woman would fight! ↗

— Stage Beauty

#drama #gender-roles #gender-stereotypes #love #anger

Acting is about covering up traces of who you are and just being the character. I think it's easier to accept people in roles if you don't know a lot about them. ↗

— Peter MacNicol

#accept #acting #being #character #covering

If by chance people would still offer me roles, I'd still like to do them. But if not, that's OK. ↗

— Emmanuelle Riva

#i #like #me #offer #ok

With our Reserve and Guard units playing increasingly important roles in the war on terror and in Iraq, it is unacceptable to make them jump through any unnecessary hurdles. ↗

— Pat Roberts

#guard #hurdles #important #important roles #increasingly

It's nice, though, getting older and being able to do different roles. ↗

— Luke Wilson

#being #different #different roles #getting #getting older

The workplace would allow parents to work part time, to share jobs, to take personal leaves to give birth, tend to a sick child, or care for a well one. As Delores Hayden has envisioned in Redesigning the American Dream, it would include affordable housing closer to places of work and perhaps community-based meal and laundry services. ↗

— Arlie Hochschild

#the-american-dream #work #dreams

My first job when I got my equity card was acting in 14 plays back-to-back. Playing that many roles, you look for ways of differentiating the characters physically, which goes hand in hand with understanding them psychologically. ↗

— Andy Serkis

#card #characters #equity #first #goes

The role of genius is not to complicate the simple, but to simplify the complicated. ↗

— Criss Jami

#complication #genius #intelligence #practicality #practicality-for-intellectuals

I loved doing Shakespeare. My two favorite roles, in fact, have been Viola in Twelfth Night and Helena in A Midsummer Night's Dream. ↗

— Blythe Danner

#doing #dream #fact #favorite #helena

I don't get offered many dramatic roles. As soon as my face pops up in a movie, everyone knows I'm the funny guy. ↗

— Chris Elliott

#dramatic roles #everyone #face #funny #funny guy