Roles Quotes

I'm very authentic, I think, and what I mean by that is whatever roles that I do take on, I'm really passionate about it.

Micro managing anything is not a great role for government.

We're in an illusion about what our role is in world politics and foreign affairs, and our policies are killing and destroying and doing a lot of things that we are not aware of.

Capitalism is the greatest poverty-fighting machine in the history of mankind, and I'm proud of the role I've played in it.

As a country and as a world, we are not comfortable with women in leadership roles. We call little girls bossy.

Earn by your efficiency and enthusiasm, The right to play higher and higher roles ,That is the meaning and purpose of life.

Maybe because Im a nice and sweet person in life, I like the darker roles. The really dark one is Lady Macbeth.

It took me years to live down Dracula and convince the film producers that I would play almost any other type of role.

Past Olympians have a continuing role within the Olympic family.

I just want to keep the diversity and the options open. In terms of what I'm looking for, I'd like to do a lead action role.

If I want to be the sexy Bipasha Basu, then I'll do a song here or a glam role there. But I want to be part of films that are watched, films that earn money and are new age, with author-backed roles.

I love taking on roles that I haven't yet done in my career.

For the Archivist, this role is a result of his obligation to preserve and assure timely and maximum access to our governmental records in the evolving historic saga of the American people.

The eye is not open when it is limited to the passive role of a mirror... if it has only the capacity to reflect.

It's still not easy to find roles that offer more complex images of women.

I think, certainly in the more civilized societies, women's roles are growing in power all of the time.

I'm not paid to be a role model, parents should be role models.

It has nothing to do with the emotional demands of a role; I've done comedies that are as draining to me as any drama.

The threat to globalization is not the wasted American dollars but Washington's readiness to mix US commercial interests with its self-appointed role as global protector.

It's fun playing two roles. The roles provide a wonderful range of emotions. Stuart is childlike and sensitive. Adam is ruthless, outrageous. He's flamboyant. He does the unexpected.

The role of the artist is to be the witness of life, timbuktu.

When I was in my 20s, I wanted to go after dramatic roles, and I didn't have a tremendous amount of success with that.

My sexual nature is irrelevant. I'm an actor, I play roles, fragments of myself.

I'm attracted to roles that are unpredictable, and if I can get my hands on something like that, I'm thrilled. I like performances where you don't know what's coming, moment to moment.

The Voice has always been an alternative paper. They have always understood that that was part of their role.

I literally was saved by a role, from becoming a cab driver. I never did have to wait tables, though, so looking back I guess I had it pretty soft.

Well physically preparing for the role, definitely and then continuing to stay physically fit throughout filming, getting up, 4.00 4.30 in the morning.

I don't think it makes me a role model. I think it makes me inspiring. Cause I'm from the bottom I think they look at me and go 'well, if he made it, I can make it'

The role of genius is not to complicate the simple, but to simplify the complicated.

I'm no role model; all I want to show is love.

People aren't hiring just a picture, they're hiring someone they can work with. That plays a big role .

I've made a career of taking roles that other actresses didn't want.

Understanding that what it is that you're doing isn't limited to the roles and the rejection, it's bigger than that, it's about your purpose in life.

If we can give up attachment to our roles as helpers, then maybe our clients can give up attachment to their roles as patients

I don't play the role of a villain, really, but I like playing anti-hero kind of roles. I like characters where there's conflict, drama, and more personal investment than just being heroes.

Don Knotts won five Emmy Awards for Outstanding Performance in a Supporting Role by an Actor or Actress in a Series [in Andy Griffith Show] in 1961, 1962, 1963, 1966 and 1967.

I am not an insecure actor, and this reflects in the films I have done. Yes, there was a phase when I was adamant on solo hero roles, but that is over now.

The role of a trainer or consultant is to empower the customer, not to make himself indispensable

I wanted to be on the stage, doing very important emotional roles.

This role is more visible, and I grew up without a lot of that sort of modeling so I'm relieved and proud to have done this film.

Artists have to be useful. They have to fill a role.

I'm still an angry dude. I'm just older. I still push the band to be heavy and dark-that's always been my role.

The central role in the fight against terrorism is with national authorities.

The evidence is there and it is clear. We want the people to be held accountable. Everybody who played a role in the death of Martin Anderson, we want them to be held accountable.

It is the role of the poet to look at what is happening in the world and to know that quite other things are happening.

I'm a bloody fun-seeker. Whatever the role is, I'll find a way to deliver the line that is confounding.

It would have been very easy for me to put on a little tight skirt and go out and try what I always call the Barbie doll roles.

In a way, a lot of my work is in the re-writing once it is cast, as I adapt to the rhythms of how the roles are played out by the actors.

I want to be a role model.

The message is not so much that the worms will inherit the Earth, but that all things play a role in nature, even the lowly worm.