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That's what I love about acting, is playing different roles. I want to work for the character, and not make it work for me.
Fran Kranz
Work
Love
Character
Me
About
Make
Roles
Different
Want
Acting
Different Roles
Playing
I know that I've played a lot of comedic roles. It's a visual medium. When you get one role, you start to get cast in that role for awhile because that's what people have seen you do, and have hopefully seen you do it successfully.
Fran Kranz
You
People
Seen
Medium
Visual
Hopefully
Cast
Know
Comedic
Because
Lot
Role
Get
Roles
Successfully
Awhile
Played
Start
I'm not really that interested in going back to playing small supporting roles.
Frances McDormand
Back
Small
Supporting
Roles
Going
Interested
Really
Playing
I was a dancer when I got discovered, and I started working immediately. I started being in commercials and doing guest star roles. My first big thing, which happened maybe six months after being discovered, was 'Bring It On: All or Nothing.'
Francia Raisa
First
Big
Nothing
Dancer
Guest
Guest Star
Months
Immediately
Got
Doing
Discovered
Commercials
Roles
Six
Maybe
Being
Big Thing
After
Happened
Which
Working
Star
Thing
Bring
Started
I could be a star and maybe make lots of money, or I could change roles all the time and have a more interesting - and longer - career.
Franco Nero
Time
Change
Money
More
Could
Longer
Make
Lots
Roles
Maybe
Interesting
Star
Career
At 24, my head was as shiny as a cue ball on a billiard table. I naturally thought this meant curtains. Actually, I found it helped. When I was too young to play real character parts, they mistook me for older because of the bald noggin. I got juicy roles right from the start.
Frank Cady
Character
Me
Thought
Young
Older
Too
Table
Head
Mistook
Bald
Parts
Because
Ball
Got
Cue
Real
Real Character
Juicy
Shiny
Roles
Curtains
Meant
Naturally
Helped
Found
Play
Actually
Right
Start
My acting career began on the streets of New York. When I was a cop, I played many impressive roles, from derelict to a doctor, and my life often depended on my performance.
Frank Serpico
Life
Doctor
My Life
Performance
New
Began
Impressive
Roles
York
Often
Depended
New York
Acting
Derelict
Acting Career
Many
Cop
Streets
Played
Career
I think we're struggling with trying to redefine various positions at this point in history. To allow freedom for women, freedom for men, freedom from those sharply defined gender roles.
Fred Ward
Freedom
History
Women
Men
Gender
Think
Positions
Defined
Those
Various
Struggling
Point
Allow
Freedom From
Sharply
Redefine
Roles
Trying
I want to do all roles. The sky's the limit.
Gabby Douglas
Sky
Limit
Roles
Want
I'm not going to change the world overnight. It's one person at a time, and hopefully they're people in positions of power who can help people get in those roles and really, truly embrace colorblind casting.
Gabrielle Union
Time
Change
People
World
Power
Change The World
Positions
Those
Hopefully
Embrace
Casting
Colorblind
Overnight
Truly
Person
Get
Roles
Going
Really
Help
Help People
Who
There are really very few roles for women in films in which you can also make a living.
Gaby Hoffmann
You
Women
Few
Living
Films
Also
Make
Very
Roles
Which
Really
I've never cared for the idea of a career path, or where a film might 'take me.' My love is for acting not money, so I only take on roles that I find challenging, in stories I find interesting.
Gael Garcia Bernal
Love
Me
Love Is
Money
Path
Find
Only
Take
Never
Idea
Roles
Where
Stories
Interesting
Might
Acting
Film
Challenging
Cared
Career
Career Path
There aren't enough good roles for strong women. I wish we had more female writers. Most of the female characters you see in films today are the 'poor heartbroken girl.'
Gal Gadot
Today
Good
You
Women
Strong
Girl
Wish
Films
Enough
Characters
See
Strong Women
More
Writers
Had
Most
Female
Female Characters
Heartbroken
Roles
Poor
Over the centuries, religion has become institutionalized, and in the process encrusted with elaborate hierarchies, top-heavy bureaucracies, highly specialized roles and reflexive routines.
Gary Hamel
Religion
Become
Hierarchies
Highly
Over
Institutionalized
Roles
Process
Elaborate
Centuries
Specialized
Routines
When my friends and I would act out movies as kids, we'd play the guys' roles, since they had the most interesting things to do. Decades later, I can hardly believe my sons and daughter are seeing many of the same limited choices in current films.
Geena Davis
Daughter
Believe
Films
Later
Kids
Out
Would
Seeing
Guys
Had
Sons
Since
Most
Limited
Friends
Decades
Roles
Same
Current
Interesting
Movies
Interesting Things
Choices
Act
Many
Play
Hardly
Things
Film roles really did start to dry up when I got into my 40s.
Geena Davis
Dry
Got
Up
Roles
Did
Really
Film
Start
The first year with ABT I learned 13 new roles. Most were lengthy ballets, more complicated than I was used to. I have suffered from tendinitis since I was 13, and it flared up again until the pain was paralyzing. There were times I prayed I'd be sick so I wouldn't have to go on.
Gelsey Kirkland
Complicated
First
Year
Pain
Sick
More
Since
New
Most
Until
Learned
Ballets
Go
Were
Prayed
Up
Times
Than
Roles
Again
Lengthy
Used
Suffered
I've always admired Cate Blanchett and the roles she chooses. I think she's got an incredible discipline in a way, with choosing roles that are going to help her grow and bring something interesting to the world.
Gemma Ward
World
Discipline
Think
Incredible
Way
Admired
Something
Cate Blanchett
She
Always
Got
Roles
Going
Interesting
Chooses
Choosing
Help
Grow
Her
Bring
I don't want to do 'Hamlet.' I don't want to do Robert Redford roles or Mel Gibson roles or Kevin Costner roles, because I'm not going to be good at them.
Gene Wilder
Good
Kevin Costner
Gibson
Costner
Robert
Robert Redford
Because
Hamlet
Roles
Going
Want
Them
Kevin
For the metropolis presents the peculiar conditions which are revealed to us as the opportunities and the stimuli for the development of both these ways of allocating roles to men.
Georg Simmel
Opportunities
Men
Ways
Both
Allocating
Development
Revealed
Stimuli
Metropolis
Conditions
Roles
Which
Us
Presents
Peculiar
In a meritocracy, actors who act well get good roles. They don't get to be journalists, too - a job that, in a meritocracy, should go to those who do journalism well.
George Packer
Good
Job
Too
Those
Journalism
Journalists
Well
Go
Get
Roles
Should
Act
Who
Actor
Really good leading roles are few and far between, and there is so much competition because there are so many fantastic actresses in this country.
Georgina Campbell
Good
Competition
Country
Few
Leading
Between
Because
Roles
Fantastic
Far
Much
Really
Many
Actress
So many actors get caught up in their technique, and to be honest, I see it really getting in the way. I see them forcing things. I definitely do my best work when I'm free of that. But I think as an actor, I work really hard in preparing the roles.
Gerard Butler
Work
Best
Free
Forcing
To Be Honest
Think
Way
Definitely
See
Best Work
Caught
Up
Get
Roles
Getting
Them
Really
Hard
Many
Preparing
Actor
Technique
Things
Honest
I have got one of those faces that change every day: you can dress me up, make me look vampy and then make me look 12 years old. But don't all women do this thing? We all take on these roles.
Geri Halliwell
Day
Me
You
Change
Women
Every Day
Old
Every
Those
All Women
Dress
Faces
Take
Look
Make
Got
Years
Up
Roles
Then
Thing
I think it can be hard for any man to sometimes be upstaged by his wife. So when I'm home, I work very hard to be Todd's wife and Jade's mother. I have no problem going back to those traditional roles. I try to be Giada, the young girl that he met 20 years ago and fell in love with.
Giada De Laurentiis
Work
Love
Home
Man
Problem
Sometimes
Mother
Try
Wife
Girl
Met
Young
Think
Back
Those
No Problem
He
Fell
Traditional
His
Years
Years Ago
Very
Roles
Any
Going
Young Girl
Todd
Hard
Good roles are hard to find no matter what age.
Glenn Close
Good
Age
Matter
Find
Roles
Hard
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