A Quote by LaTanya Richardson

I never played an ingenue.

LaTanya Richardson

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Ingenue Never Played

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LaTanya Richardson
American - Actress
Born: October 21, 1949

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

Suddenly you're the mom, or you go from ... You're not an ingénue, you don't want to play an ingénue, but it's like that line in The First Wives Club [1996]: "There are only three ages for women in Hollywood: babe, district attorney, and Driving Miss Daisy."

Winona Ryder

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

Maria Bello

Onstage, I was never the ingenue.

Kristen Johnston

I was never an ingenue, thank God; always character.

Patricia Routledge

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

Melissa McCarthy

I was never an ingenue. I've traveled the globe, I've backpacked through South America, I've done conservation work in Africa. I was never the girl who knew nothing of the world.

Annabelle Wallis

I was never, ever the ingenue. The young, innocent lead was just not me.

Anna Chancellor

I played the ingenue, of course, when I was young - but even with those, I tried to make interesting choices and mess them up a little bit - make them layered and complicated and not all stereotypes.

Carrie Preston

I guess I've never really had a great desire to be a leading lady, or be seen as an ingenue.

Melanie Lynskey

I was never the ingenue or the pretty girlfriend of Tom Cruise in a movie. I didn't have that career, so I don't have to compete on that level.

Jodie Foster

I've never done real sci-fi. I've never played an alien. I've never played some sort of superhero. Which I'd love to do!

Peter Jacobson

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.