Roles Quotes

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

God loves us all, wants us all to share his kingdom, has a role for us all.

Supreme Court nominees should be individuals who not only understand, but truly respect the equal roles and responsibilities of different branches of government and our state governments.

I'd like now and into the future to play a bigger role not only in Wisconsin and the Midwest, but nationally. I'd like to have an impact.

The role of Jews who write in both the Jewish and [American] general press is to defend Israel.

Society created the prison in its own image; will history, with its penchant for paradox, reverse those roles?

There's a whole language out there, and one's role as a writer is to stumble around in it.

I think audiences are a lot more intelligent than what we give them credit for and understand that an actor is playing a role and that doesn't mean he can't play different types of roles.

There's always a sense of newness with acting, because every role, you come to every role fresh.

There are roles that you chase sometimes.

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.

I want to be a role model.

I have been incredibly privileged with my roles - after all I have had the chance to do some fantastic fun acting such as the Spice Girls Movie - who can ever forget that!

It would have been fun to have played Tim Robbins' role in Bull Durham.

Of all the roles I've done on the stage, I'm partial to Cyrano de Bergerac.

My love is for acting not money, so I only take on roles that I find challenging, in stories I find interesting.

You don't look at it as the size of the role. Quantity is not the point. You can be as thorough in 30 seconds as you can in three hours.

I knew Jimmy Dean. He tested for 'Battle Cry'. Paul Newman tested for 'Battle Cry'. I did nine tests to finally get that role.

I don't really prepare for each role the same way.

In recent times it just seems that women have been relegated to either romantic roles or fluff pieces. So the appeal, for me, is to make a picture about a real woman.

I don't act in the way other actresses act, in terms of building or creating a character. I don't transform myself into the role, I invest myself in the role.

If there's an interesting role that comes up as a great support role in a decent picture, then I'll do that.

When I was offered the part in Shakespeare In Love a voice in my head said 'not another tights role!

Actually the years when I was playing totally un - well, they were just roles that just went by the board, you wouldn't want to know. But anyway, I'm glad I had that chance to build my craft.

The alliance should agree... to an effective NATO role against the new threats presented by international terrorism and weapons of mass destruction.

I wanted to do an acting role in a movie that had nothing to do with the music business or in which I would play a singer or a songwriter. When I act, I don't even want to be thought of as Ne-Yo.