Role Expectation Quotes

I think right after 'Up in the Air' everyone wanted me to play the girl from 'Up in the Air,' and it took a little while for people to think of me as an actress from a film that they liked instead of just that character.

If you'd asked me at the start of my career I would have said I was going to be a manager. I may still be in future, but there seemed to be an expectation it was a natural progression for me.

When I read for 'Girls,' I was like, 'The script says 'Handsome Carpenter,' so someone else is going to get the part. They'll have someone handsome, not me.'

I'm not attempting to be a role model but I accept that roles I've played put me in that position. I don't feel a huge responsibility as an actress to put my young fan base first.

Throughout my career, even as a very young actor, people have always said to me that they would like to see my Othello. They could see something of him in me, I suppose.

If you do one big commercial film and it's a hit, everybody takes you for that particular kind of a role.

A child should never even think about being a "good son." A parent decides that fate for the child. The parent encourages that. Not the child himself. And the "perfect dad"? I shudder at thinking what that may be.

If you take a job as a public advocate, then you must advocate publicly.

My role isn't just receiving.

Frankly, I hadn't expected my role in 'Avvai Shanmughi' to be so significant.

When I was younger, you get pigeonholed in parts, which is understandable.

So when you make an impression in a certain kind of role, that tends to be the type of role that you get offered.

Even in comedy, I'm always the straight guy, which is okay because that's a skill. But it would be nice to get out of that box.

A lot of people only see me as villains.

I think I'm expected to behave in a certain manner.

I feel like there's this weird thing that as a feminist band you get put in this role as ambassadors.

Beauty was never really my trip. Maybe those roles are attracted to me?

Just because I'm a woman does not mean I have to deal with everything to do with food.

My Dad always told me that casting agencies are like artists picturing their paintings in their mind. They know what they want for a role and not to take it too seriously [if I dont get the part].

I don't feel like a romantic lead; I guess I feel more like a character actor.

I'm not a leading man; I don't think I've got the face of a leading man, and I don't think, ever in my life, someone will cast me in the role of a leading man.

J.K. Rowling said Bellatrix's role was going to be significant in the last one, when I showed some reluctance in playing a tiny bit part. Up front, they said, 'You're very significant in the last one.' But significant could mean a lot of things. That could just mean a significant plot point. Doesn't necessarily equal big part.

I just think people are so used to seeing me on shows like 'Vampire Diaries' and 'Pretty Little Liars,' which are more geared toward teens. But in reality, I could have a 12-year-old kid.

I always loved playing the sidekick, and that's what I expected - I didn't think I was pretty enough or diva enough to play the lead.

I watch comedies most of the time. That's what I gravitate toward. But I think the kinds of roles people see me in are sort of the opposite of that. I'm not really sure why.