Quotes about Roles

It's so easy to be boxed into one part and one part only.

Fathering and mothering are roles freely assumed but always with the design of showing them to be theatrical. It is the intention of parents in such families to make it plain to their children that they all play cultural and societal roles, that they are only roles, and that they are all truly concrete persons behind them. Therefore, children also learn that they have a family only by choosing to have it, by a collective act to be a family with each other.

Throughout my acting career by far, I have chosen roles that are not only challenging but unique at the same time.

Men were valued by what they did, women by how they looked and then by what their husbands did, and all of life was arranged (or so we thought) from the outside in.

In their hearts women think that it is men's business to earn money and theirs to spend it.