Roles Quotes

As actors you're always going to take certain roles that are in your comfort zone and take ones that aren't.

It is men who face the biggest problems in the future, adjusting to their new and complicated role.

The traditional role of the Senate has been to be the adult in the room.

Never forget that your role as a leader is to be a steward for future generations.

I don't have any sort of calculus in choosing film roles.

It was certainly a good death scene. I'm endlessly perishing in roles but it's a wonderful thing to be asked to do.

I don't want to be in a position where I'm playing roles I'm comfortable with and making money, but doing it without feeling like I'm growing.

Few things are as encouraging as the realization that things can be different and that we have a role in making them so.

I like to play different types roles, but I'd like to do a comedy next.

In the contract days, the big studios groomed us to play particular roles and we would stay with the image they gave us and insisted on.

I choose movies, I never choose roles. I look at the script. I look at the director. I look at the other actors - and then the role.

I just happen to like the work. I like preparing for a role. I like reading. I like analyzing. I like literature. I like emotions. I like working with other actors.

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.

As an actor, you're supposed to be able to form yourself into different characters and different roles. It's a transformation, and it is awesome.

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

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

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.

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

There aren't a lot of roles written for women who are strong willed.

My job is to play many different roles with all sorts of different backgrounds and orientations.

The labor movement has a great role to play in our country today.

I love it when you ask actors, 'What are you Doing now?' and they say 'I'm between roles'. To be living 'life between roles' that's my favorite

Every role that you play comes with its own set of challenges.

I hope to be a good role model for my daughters.

I just don't think of myself as an actor much at all, so I don't lust after any particular roles.

The question is always 'What is the role of a labor movement?' How much is about collective bargaining, how much is about social change for all workers?

Photography's central role is to be the absolute medium of the day. It is fantastic that there is no longer any technical intimidation.

Storytelling is an ancient and honorable act. An essential role to play in the community or tribe. It's one that I embrace wholeheartedly and have been fortunate enough to be rewarded for.

I am not hugely famous; I am not a name. For me, it's not the size of the role, it's the material and the people you are working with.

It's hard to find black roles that are just whimsical and fun and colorful. And I think, in many ways, that can be just as powerful in making commentary about race through movies.

Until Genevieve I had tended towards the more dramatic type of role

I like devilish, thorny, dirty, mean roles, muck and mire, unbelievably sad, unbelievably happy, burdened. Inner conflict - that's where drama is.

I'm lucky enough to get really interesting and diverse roles offered to me, and I just hope that that continues. I just want to keep expanding as an artist and really try new things.

The one thing I would never wish it to be thought is that you play serious roles in order to achieve some sort of respectability which you can't if you're playing comedic roles.

The role of Barbara, in Music for Millions, was literally a tonic for me

I sound like Jesse Jackson or Martin Luther King, but I honestly feel like the world is mature enough. And, for me, I just want to do good roles.

I always feel that the best roles are written for white guys.

The last couple of roles I missed out on went to Jennifer Hudson, Jessica Biel and Olivia Wilde.

I think there are roles there; we just have to choose them. We have to fight for them.

I want to take roles that challenge me and I want to like the script and obviously feel connected with the director because the director to me is so important.

As an actor, my main focus is finding good writing and attacking a good role.

I hate to admit it, but you can't do a role unless it's somewhere in your psyche. People don't realize how vast the subconscious is. It's like infinity.

When I was younger and more tortured, I wanted to suffer in my roles.

Boyhood proves that there's still good roles for women over 40, as long as you get hired when you're under 40.

I've certainly played those leading man or male juvenile roles, where you're not supposed to make people laugh.

Whenever you interact with people,don't be there primarily as a function or a role,But as a Field of conscious Presence

I think male roles are generally much better written. So for actresses, we're always dealing with trying to inject a role with more truth than the writer possibly had in mind.

At about 40, the roles started slowing down. I started getting offers to play mothers and grandmothers

I don't really give much thought to the roles that I'd ideally love to play.

Women are responsible for creating their own roles