"I was reading through endless junk scripts that were being sent my way. Typically the roles were to play his wife or his girlfriend - leading roles for women were few and far between."

Rating:

  rate this quote
Topic: none  help us select a topic for this quote

More quotes from: Roma Downey

• "A smile costs about $240. "
• "After my daughter was born, I remember dressing her up, putting a little pink bonnet ..."
• "Because I'm a person of faith, the spiritual aspects got my attention. Also, the actress ..."
• "Every lemonade stand we have here in Malibu benefits Operation Smile. We live on a ..."
• "Having played an angel for so long, you can imagine that I've been asked to ..."
• "I also know how to ask people for money and I have no shame about ..."
• "I do my best thinking by the ocean. As much as I enjoy church service, ..."
• "I grew up in Ireland, and the ocean was never more than an arm's length ..."
• "I have a home in Salt Lake, and I have a home in Malibu, at ..."
• "I have an 8-year-old, Reilly. She has been very active in her own little world. "
• "I have the soul of a singer and do splendidly in the shower but the ..."
• "I lost my mother when I was very young, and my father when I was ..."
• "I think Operation Smile is in more than 22 countries, mostly Third World. It just ..."
• "I think people are hungry for things of a spiritual nature. The show hit its ..."
• "I'd love to do some bedtime stories for kids or that kind of thing. But ..."
• "I'm not fooling myself. I don't expect my faith to turn up on the cover ..."
• "I'm the youngest of six children; both of my sisters are housewives and they each ..."
• "I've actually executive produced five films for the network now, and I've tried to learn ..."
• "If you have donated, these children may never know your name, but they will never ..."
• "If you heard me sing, you wouldn't ask me if I would ever sing! "
• "In an interesting way, the operation becomes almost a metaphor for hope and optimism. A ..."

• "It is tradition in Ireland that you're given money for your first communion. "
• "Jessica Simpson is the youth ambassador for Operation Smile, and an episode of The Apprentice ..."
• "My family still lives in Ireland-and my sisters are always terribly interested in who the ..."
• "Operation Smile invites the local medical teams to try to learn the skills required. Their ..."
• "People really feel the need to share how the series has touched their lives, and ..."
• "Richard Chamberlain was a joy to work with-extremely gracious-generous actor. I was thrilled to meet ..."
• "Season number seven! It's been so exciting for us. When we first began, we were ..."
• "The role was written American. Suddenly the dialogue came off the page and came to ..."
• "The show found a following from the middle of the country. While a lot of ..."
• "There's an assumption in many of these cultures that these children are mentally retarded, when ..."
• "This CD became something of a personal journey for me. The tone of the whole ..."
• "We have a rolling gag on the show. I once had to sing with Natalie ..."
• "We were the laughingstock of that first season... It was with great relish several years ..."
• "We work hard on the show. We really believe in the show. It's an enormous ..."
• "We're nondenominational. I come from Northern Ireland, and we've had religious wars for years. I ..."
• "What is free time? I'm a single mother. My free moments are filled with loving ..."
• "You know, it's very deep in everyone's secret longings to be a recording star. I ..."