Adult Roles Quotes

I've never tried to reach a certain demographic of an audience or try to say, 'OK, now I'm going to do this type of film to transition myself into more adult roles.' Or a romantic hero. Or whatever it may be - you know what I mean?

It wasn't my intention in going after this part but I suppose now I do. The adult roles are a lot meatier - you're not always just the daughter or the girlfriend or whatever.

I was still thought of as a kid actor even though I was in my mid twenties.

Coming out of 'Spy Kids,' I immediately wanted to do more grown-up roles, and I was turning down a lot of the kind of younger, cheesier roles.

To me, I didn't think of acting as being a young thing only.

I hope to have a career like Jodie Foster, going from child to adult actress.

Not a lot of people make that transition from child actor to bigger, better roles.

Actors often behave like children, and so we're taken for children. I want to be grown up.

It was strange doing that transition from teenager to more adult roles, but I think it just makes it more exciting.

I'm too young to play lawyers. But I've been really lucky because I never got labeled. I never did the John Hughes thing. I did adult movies. I'm not bragging or anything, but I think that I've chosen really good roles. I've played different people and showed that I have a little bit of range.

I've been playing sexually aware women most of my life. At this point I expected to be playing moms and wives. It's exciting to play a femme fatale.

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It was hard to find that transition to adult roles.

I do intelligent roles. I don't want to be labeled as doing silly movies. I'm more mature than kids my age because I'm constantly surrounded by adults.

I knew I would grow up and wear a costume one day, and that's exactly what happened.

I want to do more movies, more adult roles.

I want to get away from the high school thing and do other types of roles.

I played teen roles until high definition came out, and I could never understand it. I would go in for adult roles and be older than many of the people auditioning, but they'd cast the girl without a line on her face.

It's always exciting to explore adult roles when the vast majority of viewers that have seen me on TV know me from 'Glee,' from something of a different tone.

People don't necessarily identify me with doing adult things.

I was raised in a way where there was no distinction between kids and adults.