Roles Quotes

I really want to play interesting roles, but you want to work, so it's a balancing game.

I completely took off my eyebrows one time for a screen test. I hadn't even gotten the role yet. So you have to have a commitment.

I'm never really conscious of saying, "I'm going to take on a specific role to combat a certain image in the public eye." I think that's pretty manipulative and transparent to the public anyway.

When you're a musician and you go out onstage, and you're someone who loves attention, you are going to become a role model to some extent.

I don't really know what the dream role would be. That's a hard question to answer. You never really know, until you're immersed into something, how passionate you feel for it and how it unravels.

For a long time I did not want to do television because I did not want to get stuck playing the same person. I wanted the ongoing challenge of a variety of roles.

I've always kind of lived my life to be as much as possible a positive role model for children.

I never talk about auditions. Even if I've got the role, I won't tell people until we're literally filming it.

I feel nowadays that both women and men are embracing their individuality rather than being defined by gender roles.

I've deliberately tried to calm myself down because eventually I want to be a good role model to my kids.

I don't approach a role by saying I'll be unsavory or unlikable. I think all the roles I've done have been very passionate people who go to absolute extremes to make their points.

Oxygen plays a pivotal role in the proper functioning of the immune system. We can look at oxygen deficiency as the single greatest cause of all diseases.

At drama school, I always picked the really evil roles. It's a great way to deal with your everyday emotions.

As an actor, you hope to find roles that are challenging to you as an artist. Then if you are truly blessed, you will find that it also carries a message that you can impart to your audience.

My main goal, when I started acting, was to show as much versatility as possible because I like playing diverse roles.

If I only get to play Malaysian roles, there wouldn't be very many roles for me to play.

In the coming decades, questions of identity, meaning cultural heritage, language, and religion will play a central role in politics.

One of the things I love most about acting is just disappearing in the role, as much as I can. I think that's one of the things that intrigued me about it.

I really asked myself, “Oh, my god, how am I going to do this?” That’s what I aspire to, every time I take on a new role.

I do try hard to pick roles that differ. I love that about the job. I think the variety that's out there is to be taken advantage of and I enjoy that element of shape shifting with everything.

One of the most original and most important ideas advanced by Hayek is the role of the 'division of knowledge' in economic society.

The Constitution limits the role of government. The Constitution enumerates the freedoms of the people and enforces those freedoms against government, making sure government cannot encroach.

Assuming roles is something that simply won't work for me, since I don't have a style. None at all.

I love roles where I am required to prepare physically. And it's fun putting on weight and eating.

Women will be saved by going back to that role that God has chosen for them. Ladies, if the hair on the back of your neck stands up it is because you are fighting your role in the scripture.

You know, when they called me about the role, I thought Knots Landing was a show about a houseboat with Andy Griffith!

I'm just a pack mule. I've played leads and I've played character roles. Any actress in Hollywood will tell you as your age climbs, the leads thin.

What is charm then? The free giving of a grace, the spending of something given by nature in her role of spendthrift ... something extra, superfluous, unnecessary, essentially a power thrown away.

My role isn't to be politically smart. My role is to do what's right under the constitution. And if that's politically unpopular, so be it.

I have to save the parts of my soul that are left for the good roles and the true love.

There aren't as many roles for people who look like me, and it was always complicated when it came to casting my parents. But now I couldn't be more grateful that I have a different look.

Savings will not make you rich. Only canny investments do that. The role of savings is to keep you from becoming poor.

If I ever lose a role because of my tattoos, I'll quit Hollywood and go to work at Costco.

The number of Latino roles is very limited, and it's unfortunate there isn't more color-blind casting.

I'm always glad to be offered roles, but wouldn't take any role as this could do you more harm than good, but I've been at what they call 'on the top' as far as being known for twenty years.

If there is an exotic woman it's always a terrorist role.

Life is a movie, let love play its role.

I never lost an argument and my parents assumed I would be a lawyer. They cast me in that role.

I never bring a role home with me. The moment they say, 'It's a wrap,' it's gone completely. I'm a totally ruthless professional, and life is my family, not my work.

I was never any good in the school theatrical productions. I always got a role like the March Hare.

Government should be weak, amateurish and ridiculous. At present, it fulfills only a third of the role.

The role of the schoolmaster is to collect little plastic lumps of human dough from private households and shape them on the social kneading board.

I haven't had a problem with being typecast, but if I was only getting one type of role, I wouldn't mind. What I'm worried about is not working.

This is the role of writers: to turn their tears into a story - and perhaps into a prayer.

I'm attracted to roles where I don't have to wear makeup.

The revolutionary's role is to liberate, and to be liberated, with the people--not to win them over.

You know how it is, somebody will see your work and like it and remember it, then decide to make it a role in their film.

I don't approach a role by saying I'll be unsavory or unlikable.

The intellectual is an individual with a specific public role in society that cannot be reduced simply to . . a faceless professional.

I read the script, and I knew it was a good part. It was written for a white actor. That's what I'm up against - I have to try to make roles happen for me that aren't written black.