A Quote by Melissa McCarthy

I've never been interested in playing the boring ingenue.

Melissa McCarthy

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Melissa McCarthy
American - Actress
Born: August 26, 1970

I've never been interested in playing the boring ingenue. I always wonder: Who's her weird friend? I like the oddballs.

Melissa McCarthy

But I've always been hard to cast, I've never been an ingenue, I've never been the romantic lead. I'm an actor; give me the script and I do what I do and hope it's good.

Edie Falco

Ageism is interesting for me because I've been playing someone in my 40s since I was 20 or so, but I have experienced it. I've been lucky in that I haven't had to play the ingenue and feel that slip away.

Miriam Shor

I'm not afraid to play my age. I never was. I've never been an ingenue. I like getting older.

Maria Bello

When you're the ingénue no one is really interested in you for that.

Virginia Madsen

To be honest with you, most of the time the ingenue roles are a little bit dull and boring, in my opinion.

Carmen Cusack

I never felt like a happy-go-lucky ingenue to begin with. And parts are written better when you're older. When you're young, you're written to be an ingenue, and you're written to be a quality. You're actually not written to be a person, you're written for your youth to inspire someone else, usually a man. So I find it just much more liberating.

Laura Linney

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

Winona Ryder

Never in my lifetime have I been called boring. But I think I was a boring candidate for president because I tried to be responsible. And one of the greatest problems I had is that I was governor.

John Kasich

I think generally playing live is a crap idea. So much of stage work is the presentation of personality, and I've never been interested in that.

Brian Eno

For me, playing for my country is the ultimate honour, and I've been fortunate enough to do that through many of the age groups. It's something that will never get old or boring for me.

Jack Butland

James Dean has never been one of my guys. I don't want to be him. I will take boring anytime. I love boring! Are you kidding me? Matt Damon has been one of my favorites forever. He always elevates every bit of material, and then you don't hear a thing about him.

James Marsden

Growing up I was a total movie-holic, but I always wanted to play the role that Clark Gable was playing or Spencer Tracy was playing. I was really never interested in the parts that women were playing. I found the parts that guys were playing were so much more interesting.

Joyce DeWitt

I'm never interested in the painting being a mirror to culture. I think that's really boring. What I'm interested in is painting as an affective space. The place where the hierarchies of the world can be rearranged within the space of a painting. And they can be articulated in different ways.

Dana Schutz

I was playing 40-year-old women when I was 20. I didn't get considered for ingenue roles.

Allison Janney

I was never an ingenue. I've always just been a character actor. When I was younger, it was a real problem, because I was never pretty enough. It was hard, not just for the lack of work, but because you have to face up to how people are looking at you.

Kathy Bates

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