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"Playing Sgt, Trotter in 'The Mousetrap' is the same as playing Scripps in 'The History Boys,' in the sense that they're dream roles that I've always wanted to do. The fact they're letting me do this professionally and I'm getting paid for it, I find astonishing."
"How terrifying and glorious the role of man if, indeed, without guidance and without consolation he must create from his own vitals the meaning for his existence and write the rules whereby he lives."
"The first role I ever did... I played a Nazi skinhead."
"Find a great role model, perhaps someone who struggled and only really succeeded when older. Their biography and what they've done differently from you will help you. If such a person is willing to mentor you or at least allow you to work around them, great."
"If you make the bad guy enticing and dangerous, that's where the excitement of playing the role really kicks in. I don't get to do that in my normal day-to-day life. Life is too taxing to go to those dark places."
"Honestly, I didn't know I was a role model."
"I love the role that men play in our lives."
"I want to get away from the high school thing and do other types of roles."
"What I learned was there's no roles for women who won't be in their 40s. For women who will be in their 40s, there's a ton of work."
"To love without role, without power plays, is revolution."
"As we create synergy among the roles of our lives, there's more of us to put into the time we have."
"Perhaps the greatest role of parenting, more than directing and telling children what to do, [is] helping [children] connect with their own gifts, particularly conscience."
"One of the author's most ancient roles is to call the community to account for its hypocrisies and bad faith."
"I know I can't play funny roles in movies. I tried, and it didn't work."
"What you aim for, as an actor, is to be able to play a range of different roles."
"My parents are desperate, they keep saying: 'Please stop doing these angsty roles; make it easier for us.' So, yeah, I'd love to do some comedy."
"Even now, for women to be contemplating the act of ending their life is considered horrific because they are the giver of life. They're seen in a patriarchal society as the one who offers life and has to nurture a child and have a child within them. That's your only role."
"I think I've always just been kinda geeky and got to play some mildly appealing roles."
"I'll continue to act when the roles are available, and when I get offered something. But creating original content on my YouTube channel and not having to go through networks or studios, the freedom you have to just do it online, I'm never giving that up."
"Unfortunately, there's a lack of roles for women of color, so you actually have to be the engineer creating some of those roles."
