Transitioning Roles Quotes

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

After working in a number of films as a child actor, I took a break so that people could forget me as a child actor and relate to me as a hero.

I've had my share of villains and played some fairly nasty characters. But I've been acting for so long. I started out as the girl next door. Now I'm the grandmother next door.

Maybe further down the road in my career, in a couple of years when I'm maybe not that fast any more around the court, then maybe it would be good to come to the net a little bit more often

I think it's a natural progression: a lot of centre-backs start wide when they're young and move inside.

As I see it, part of the art of being a hero is knowing when you don't need to be one anymore.

I think it kind of took being a character actor to kind of now enter into leading ladies.

I think that I am lucky and blessed to have the job that I have, and I am trying to create longevity. If that means that I transition into different things at different points in my life, then that's fine. I also believe that if doors don't open, make new doors, so I've also started producing quite a bit of things.

It is hard to stop seeing your son as a son and to start seeing him as a human being. It is hard to stop seeing your parents as parents and to start seeing them as human beings. It's a two-sided transition, and very few people manage it gracefully.

I would not want to go back to playing the ingenue.

It's common to go from 'crashing the gate' to guarding it.