“I don't have one role that I want to play. I guess... I want to be a producer. I want to be an activist. I want to be proactive in bringing about work for men, women, boys, girls, everybody who is good at what they do and deserve a shot at it.” MenWantPlayGirlBoysRolesShotsDeserveProducersActivistMen WomenProactiveBoy Girl Author:Octavia Spencer
“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.” FactsDreamWantedBoysRolesPaidAstonishing Author:Thomas Howes
“One of the things that I found very confronting in my early working life was that people thought I was some sensitive doe-eyed lovelorn boy, because they'd seen me do that a couple of times. What tends to happen is you get a run of similar roles.” PeopleDoeHappensRunningFoundBoysRolesCoupleSensitiveConfrontingWorking Life Author:Ben Mendelsohn
“We should be writing more great roles for women, period. Another problem is that movies are generally made for 14-year-old boys, and 14-year-old boys want to watch 25-year-old action heroes.” WantShouldWritingYearsMadeProblemActionBoysRolesWatchesHeroPeriodsAction Heroes Author:James Mangold
“I cannot imagine any boy of spirit who would not be delighted to play a drunkard even to vomiting in front of his Sunday school. Indeed, the vomiting might be the chief attraction of the role.” PlayMightSchoolSpiritBoysRolesImagineFrontsAttractionChiefsSundayDelightedDrunkardsSunday SchoolVomiting Author:Robertson Davies
“I have a theory about American men -- I think they think women are boys who don't know how to throw a ball very well. American women are forced into the role of being men without penises, of being men who haven't quite been able to make it. If women don't want to be pussycats, then they get forced into the role of being almost as good as men. Which is lousy.” IfsThinkingKnowsMenWantWellsAbleBoysRolesKnow HowHavensTheoryBallsBeing MeAmerican Woman Author:Anne Beatts
“My role models were always the Pacinos and the Oldmans, the guys who get dirty with their characters, and I arrived in L.A. during the big boom of 'Dawson's Creek.' I was getting cast as the boy next door, or the friend of the jock. I thought, 'Did I really have to do all that studying?'” CharacterBigsGuyNextBoysRolesStudyDoorsModelsCastsDirtyRole ModelsJocksCreeks Author:Gabriel Mann
“Boys want to grow up to be like their male role models. And boys who grow up in homes with absent fathers search the hardest to figure out what it means to be male.” WantMeanHomeFatherGrowsBoysRolesGrowing UpFiguresModelsMalesHardestRole ModelsAbsentMale Role Models Author:Geoffrey Canada
“Every boy needs a role model that he can be proud of and talk about to the other kids in the playground.” NeedsKidsBoysRolesProudModelsRole ModelsBe ProudPlaygrounds Author:Athol Fugard
“Four- and five-year-olds' play is permeated with the rankest sexism. No matter what their parents do and say, they play their momand pop roles in ultraconventional style. We've seen little girls whose mothers are doctors absolutely refuse to take the doctors' parts in their play, insisting that "only boys can be doctors," against all reason. Girls do more washing and drying of clothes, dishes, and babies than they've ever seen their own mothers do, and they turn their play husbands into TV-watching drones who do nothing but talk about money.” YearsChildrenLittlesMatterReasonPlayMotherTurnsGirlParentBoysRolesFiveFourStyleTvsBabyHusbandClothesDoctorsNo Matter WhatRefusePopsFive YearsSexismDishesWashingDronesFive Year OldsInsistingChildren Playing Author:Stella Chess
“The gender prism is just descending upon us. For instance, when we're girls of nine or 10 we may be climbing trees and saying, "I know what I want. I know what I think." And then suddenly at 11 or 12, the gender role takes hold, and adults tell us, "How clever of you to know what time it is." It happens to boys, too and even sooner - between five and eight. Before that, boys cry and express uncertainty.” ThinkingKnowsWantMayHappensGirlBoysRolesFiveTreeCryAdultsEightGenderCleverNineInstanceUncertaintyClimbingGender RolesDescendingPrismsClimbing Trees Author:Gloria Steinem
“When the gender role starts to descend, boys get into the masculine box.” BoysRolesBoxesGenderMasculineGender Roles Author:Gloria Steinem
“The scene at a certain time was definitely boys; those huge warehouses were kind of violent parties, even. I think people in your immediate community made a nightlife scene that actually did break down gender roles and were along different lines of identity that had to do with race and experience in the '90s, rather than gender.” PeopleThinkingKindMadeDifferentCertainCommunityLinesPartyRaceBoysRolesBreakIdentityHugeSceneGenderViolentBreaking DownGender RolesWarehouseNightlife Author:Le1f
“I'd like to be more of a bad influence than a role model. I'm getting lots of boys to wear eye-liner again which is good.” EyeBoysRolesInfluenceModelsRole Models Author:Brian Molko
“With a face like mine, I'm never going to play a character who conquers the universe, I'm going to play characters who are subject to forces bearing down on them. My career's based on how we are rather than how we wish we were - they get the good-looking boys in for that kind of role.” KindPlayCharacterFacesUniverseForceWishBoysCareersRolesSubjectsMinesConquerLooking Good Author:Eddie Marsan
“For anyone who's a fan of the X-files show - I mean, I have the ultimate role. I got to deal with Mulder, I got to talk to him, I had a fight sequence with him. Really for anyone who is a fan of the show, I think I fulfilled a lot of young boys' dreams.” ThinkingMeanShowsDreamYoungFightingDealsBoysRolesFansUltimateFulfilledSequenceFilesX Files Author:Rhys Darby
“I never ever played the lead role in a play, except at school. I guess the industry that we're in, boys that look like me don't get the lead role.” LooksPlaySchoolBoysRolesIndustryLike Me Author:Mark Indelicato
“I take my role as an ambassador for the sport, and as a role model for boys, girls, mommies, daddies - whoever it is - very, very seriously. I know the impact my role models have had in my life, and I'm in a really beautiful position to be able to be that for others.” KnowsAbleBeautifulGirlSportsBoysRolesPositionModelsImpactRole ModelsDaddyAmbassadorsReally BeautifulBoy Girl Author:Kerri Walsh
“That's what I love about Michael Douglas' performance in Wonder Boys, because I feel like he surprises audiences that know him from very different roles in his other work.” KnowsFeelsDifferentWonderBoysRolesAudiencePerformancesSurprise Author:Curtis Hanson
“I get told I'm too good-looking for a lot of roles. They don't write roles people would think I'm supposed to play as often as they used to - the rom-com pretty-boy storylines.” PeopleThinkingWritingPlayUsedBoysRolesLooking GoodStorylinePretty Boy Author:Nico Tortorella