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It is good to have healthy competition and be inspired by others, as all this helps you take up challenging roles. There are people who come from different backgrounds in this industry. In my case, my mom runs a play school, and Dad is into business. When I go home, conversation revolves around that and lot more topics other than cinema.
Kiara Advani
Good
Home
Mom
You
Conversation
Business
People
Competition
Cinema
School
Healthy
Other
Others
Backgrounds
Topics
Runs
Case
More
Inspired
Take
Come
Industry
Around
Go
Go Home
Lot
Up
Than
Roles
Revolves
Different
Different Backgrounds
Who
Helps
Dad
Challenging
Play
I get a lot of single mum roles - 'It's a Free World' turned out well, so people thought, 'She can be a single mum, Kierston can do that. Or live in a council house - she can do that.'
Kierston Wareing
People
World
Thought
Free
Single
Live
Out
Council
Free World
House
She
Well
Lot
Get
Roles
Turned
Mum
The roles for women in theatre are much better than they are in film.
Kim Cattrall
Women
Theatre
Better
Than
Roles
Much
Film
I'm drawn to roles because they excite me intellectually and emotionally.
Kim Cattrall
Me
Drawn
Emotionally
Excite
Because
Intellectually
Roles
There aren't as many roles, and I think there's a lack of openness in casting an Asian character in a leading role or unless they're a stereotype. It's been hard. I've been able to play some non-stereotypical roles, which is great, but I have a lot of Asian actor friends who are struggling.
Kimiko Glenn
Great
Character
Think
Unless
Able
Some
Casting
Struggling
Leading
Leading Role
Stereotype
Openness
Been
Lot
Friends
Role
Roles
Lack
Which
Asian
Hard
Who
Many
Actor
Play
All my life, I have taken inventory at intervals. For example, when I became a movie actor and suddenly I had to deal with fame, money and playing so many roles, I lost myself. I said, 'Who am I?' And I wrote my first book to deal with that, 'The Ragman's Son.'
Kirk Douglas
Life
Myself
Son
Book
Money
My Life
Example
First
Lost
Intervals
All My Life
Inventory
Had
Taken
For Example
Wrote
Became
Deal
Said
Am
Fame
Roles
Movie
Movie Actor
Who
Who Am I
Many
Suddenly
Actor
Playing
I don't think roles help you resolve your issues. I just think they're good markers.
Kirsten Dunst
Good
You
Think
Resolve
Markers
Issues
Roles
Just
Your
Help
Pristine vulnerability is just so boring to me. The performances that I love are ones like Gena Rowland's in 'A Woman Under the Influence,' where women are allowed to be messy and imperfect. It's that kind of woman that has always inspired me to seek roles that are a little out of the box. I just haven't always had the opportunity to do them.
Kirsten Dunst
Love
Me
Woman
Women
Opportunity
Out
Kind
Boring
Seek
Imperfect
Inspired
Had
Allowed
Performance
Like
Box
Vulnerability
Messy
Always
Pristine
Women Are
Roles
Just
Influence
Where
Little
Them
The performances that I love are ones like Gena Rowlands in 'A Woman Under the Influence,' where women are allowed to be messy and imperfect. It's that kind of woman that has always inspired me to seek roles that are a little out of the box. I just haven't always had the opportunity to do them.
Kirsten Dunst
Love
Me
Woman
Women
Opportunity
Out
Kind
Seek
Imperfect
Inspired
Had
Allowed
Performance
Like
Box
Messy
Always
Women Are
Roles
Just
Influence
Where
Little
Them
I'm not in the business of becoming famous. And that's the advice I give to younger aspiring actors. Work onstage and do the little roles. In the end it's not important to be seen. It's important to do. There's a lot of disappointment in this business, but my family keeps me grounded.
Kristen Bell
Work
Family
Me
Business
Disappointment
Seen
Important
Advice
Give
Onstage
Becoming
Lot
End
Roles
Famous
In The End
Little
Younger
Aspiring
Grounded
Actor
Keeps
There are so few strong roles for women, especially young women. And Veronica is very serious but also very likable. She's a lone wolf, and it appeals to people that she isn't rich and doesn't have a lot of friends. No posse. She's just like you, like most of us.
Kristen Bell
You
Women
People
Strong
Wolf
Few
Young
Rich
Posse
Lone
Lone Wolf
Likable
Like
Most
Also
She
Veronica
Lot
Friends
Very
Roles
Just
Young Women
Us
Appeals
Serious
The challenge is when you're offered similar roles, and you have to play them differently. I don't want people to say, 'She performs similarly in every film. There is no versatility.'
Kriti Kharbanda
You
People
Challenge
Every
Say
Similar
Similarly
Performs
She
Versatility
Offered
Roles
Want
Them
Film
Play
Differently
I started playing small roles, but it's the stage that I enjoy the most, as that's where I can entertain people.
Kubra Sait
People
Stage
Enjoy
Entertain
Entertain People
Small
Most
Roles
Where
Started
Playing
Every actor wants to be everybody - play all the roles.
Kyle Chandler
Every
Everybody
Roles
Wants
Actor
Play
In TV, kid roles are like this: You're either in a couple minutes of an episode playing somebody's kid, or you get in these procedurals where you're crying or you're playing a witness or you're playing a crazy person. Every once in a while you get a big guest star role, but there's a formula to those TV shows.
Kyle Gallner
Crazy
You
Witness
Somebody
Big
Every
Guest
Guest Star
Once
Kid
Those
TV
TV Shows
Minutes
Like
Couple
Crying
Role
Person
Get
Roles
Where
Either
While
Formula
Crazy Person
Episode
Shows
Star
Playing
When I started acting, my whole focus and intention was to work as a stage actor in a company where you're asked to different roles - do a comedy, do a tragedy, etc. I haven't had any reservations about jumping from one type of genre to another.
Kyle MacLachlan
Work
You
Comedy
Focus
Stage
Type
About
Had
Genre
Another
Tragedy
Jumping
Roles
Any
Intention
Where
Different
Etc
Asked
Acting
Different Roles
Whole
Company
Reservations
Actor
Started
Some of the best roles are for women in these independent, smaller movies.
Kyra Sedgwick
Best
Women
Independent
Some
Smaller
Roles
Movies
I am an African-American woman of dark skin tone, and there are very specific roles that are usually given to African-American women of a darker hue. Let's start with 'Once on This Island': peasant girl. Let's go to 'The Color Purple': young girl, beaten. Let's go to 'Ragtime': Her baby's taken.
LaChanze
Woman
Women
Dark
Girl
Young
Skin
Baby
Once
Darker
Given
Purple
Color
Beaten
Taken
Island
Am
Go
Hue
Very
Roles
African-American
African-American Women
Young Girl
Specific
Her
Start
Tone
Peasant
Coming up through the theater in America, while I have had success, I have had success in certain types of roles.
LaChanze
Success
Types
Through
Had
Coming
Up
America
Roles
Theater
While
Certain
It's funny, oftentimes the really great roles that I enjoy are in classic plays, and there aren't many theatres in New York who will do them, aside from Roundabout.
Laila Robins
Funny
Great
Will
Enjoy
Classic
New
Roles
York
Oftentimes
New York
Them
Aside
Really
Who
Many
Plays
I'd rather do a great play than a mediocre play in New York. As much as I'd like to be seen in New York, that's not my driving motivation. My motivation is to play great roles, wherever they happen.
Laila Robins
Great
Seen
Rather
Driving
New
Like
Motivation
Than
Roles
York
New York
Happen
Wherever
Much
Play
Mediocre
Throughout my career, I wouldn't say my roles have been based on my being considered eye candy.
Lamman Rucker
Considered
Say
Eye
Throughout
Been
Roles
Candy
Being
Based
Career
On 'Swingtown,' I think that's when I was able to blend the character-slash-leading lady roles, and that's what I'm doing on 'Once Upon a Time' as well. She's a leading lady, but she's also this character.
Lana Parrilla
Time
Character
Think
Once
Able
Leading
Blend
Also
She
Well
Doing
Roles
Lady
I'm so bored of reading scripts with these wonderfully complex male roles, yet the woman character just sits on the bed waiting for him to come home.
Lara Pulver
Home
Character
Woman
Waiting
Reading
Complex
Bored
Come
Him
Bed
Male
Roles
Wonderfully
Just
Scripts
Sherlock' changed the perception of me. I have these cheekbones and this face that suggest very middle-class or period-drama roles. I want to show everyone there's much more to me than Irene Adler.
Lara Pulver
Me
Face
Perception
Changed
Everyone
Adler
More
Cheekbones
Sherlock
Very
Than
Roles
Want
Much
Show
Suggest
M.G.M. never really gave me a break. They loaned me out for leading roles but cast me in programme pictures.
Laraine Day
Me
Gave
Out
Cast
Never
Leading
Pictures
Roles
Break
Really
Programme
Loaned
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