Roles Quotes

I love talking about acting. I'm just such a fan of actors and filmmakers, and I try to choose roles where I get to talk to great actors about acting and learn.

I had only that one picture, Hitler, the Beast of Berlin, in which I had a part big enough to impress anyone. I tried for better roles over and over again

Girls in scripts are often pretty but brainless, or geeky and no one likes them, so it's great to find richer roles. Chalk and cheese aspects of people are very interesting to play.

some actors seek parts similar to their personalities. But, I prefer undergoing a metamorphosis that depends on the role .

When I choose a role it's either because I recognise the man, or that I'm very curious to know him. If I neither recognise nor know him, then it is better that I don't play him.

Authority is granted to people who are perceived as authoring their own words, their own actions, their own lives, rather than playing a scripted role at great remove from their own hearts.

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

That's what I like about acting. When you're preparing for a role, you do your research, and the bonus is you get to learn these skills. Now, it's on to whatever the next thing is I have to learn.

Fed role - legal system, currency & defense, within its means.

A fitting external security environment could also play an important role in promoting social consensus and institutionalization towards democratization.

We have a problem now with parents stealing their kids' CDs, so the roles have been reversed.

Certain roles are more challenging than others, but I haven't come across one yet that I can't tackle.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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 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.

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

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.

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

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

I became the stage for the great argument between Nietzsche and Rousseau. I was the extra ready to take on all the roles.

Historically, the family has played the primary role in educating children for life, with the school providing supplemental scaffolding to the family.

I always approach comedy roles pretending they aren't funny.

Thank goodness I started getting movie roles and then television shows came along. So I was very fortunate to be able to do all three and I like all of them.

The rout of fascism, in which the Soviet Union played the decisive role, generated a mighty tide of socio-political changes which swept across the globe.

I've always seen it as the role of an artist to drag his inside out, give the audience all you've got. Writers, actors, singers, all good artists do the same. It isn't supposed to be easy.

Ensure everyone knows what success is and what their role is in achieving it.

I played the best role I've ever seen on TV or film in the last five years. It was hugely gratifying.

I don't ever get the great looking lawyer roles because I've got a thick neck from playing football.

No role in life is more important than to be a good mother.

For most of my career, I've played roles that were written for other actresses.

But I'm attracted to roles where I get to really go in and explore a character.

Our lives are a mixture of different roles. Most of us are doing the best we can to find whatever the right balance is . . . For me, that balance is family, work, and service.

The Epicureans denied that the gods had created the world and also denied that they played any role in it.

Character roles definitely age better than your ingenues. You don't get to keep doing that.

You cannot win an Emmy for roles that are simply not there.

I've reprised roles in the theatre, which is somehow more accepted, and where one can automatically go deeper and further into the role.

Like most of us, I'm used to juggling about 52 roles in life. Wife. Mother. Sister. Friend. Author. Sometimes I feel a bit 'multiple-personality'.

It was an interesting way to come across in my first big role. To work with Robert DeNiro was very exciting.

I had a dual role: designer and advocate.