Roles Quotes

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

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

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

The way I go about choosing roles is basically by just trying to pick the complete opposite of the last thing I did, or if it has someone else who I really have wanted to work with.

Well, I make a practice of not commenting on the role of the relative exchange value of our currency.

I see my role in the Bonzos as being the straight man, in many ways.

I don't see money or a particular status as an actor as a goal, but I want to do the best work I can in as interesting a range of roles as I can.

Despite the enormous role that local government plays in our daily lives, the constitution makes not one mention of it.

One of my favorite actors is Javier Bardem, he always challenges his previous roles, and basically does the unexpected.

I'm not the kind of actor who goes into exhaustive research for each role.

I'd rather do a lot of movies than a TV series and do a lot of different roles than be stuck in one TV thing.

Intuitive powers played a central role in my scientific work, not wild speculation, yet a valued resource when no other approach was available.

One of Alaska's strengths is our pioneer role in environmentally sensitive development.

I'm very happy to sing whatever I'm singing. I've always enjoyed any role I've been given at a certain time. They've all been favourites, they've all been wonderful pieces to play.

After I got to Hollywood, I resented that I didn't get a crack at more dramatic roles because I photographed so beautifully.

Im not sure Ill find acting satisfying creatively forever. If you get the good roles, its great - if you have the freedom to choose your projects and not just do anything and everything.

I have five young children, and I take being a role model very seriously.

For me it's the same thing if the fans boo or not, because my role is the villain. I'm happy when you clap me though.

I'm definitely more attracted to chaos than to order. The point is, I find the female roles out there very cliché. If we are limited to being only lovers or mothers, we are limiting ourselves.

There's a terrible truth for many women in the picture business: Aging typically takes its toll and means fewer and less desirable roles.

But a writer's contribution is literary and a film is not literary. When you take that stuff off the page, and cast the people who are going to fit into those roles, that's what being a director is.

Every person that steps up and commits to social change helps solidify the black movement cause. It is not easy for those who fill in the leader role.

Growing up, I would say Wonder Woman and Nancy Drew were definite role models for me. Historically, I know Amelia Earhart stands out for me.

I created 'The Guild' because nobody was offering me the roles I thought I could do best at in Hollywood.

Role models are fine. Roll models are better. Anyone who can do a forward roll is pretty awesome in my book.

Well, my favorite roles so far are Lucas and Lost Boys.

I enrolled in an acting workshop and my first acting role was on the TV soap opera 'Melrose Place.'

Ireland has a role to play in making the E.U. united and strong.

The Soviet Union did not achieve victory over the West, so was my information inadequate to help them to victory, or did it play no particular role in their failure to achieve victory?

I look for roles that show women as independent, informed, and free to make their own decisions.

I would love to do Evita or Elphaba in Wicked. But I am more excited to originate a role on Broadway.

No, most of the decisions that I make with regard to taking roles, I just look for something that's challenging, something that I think I can accomplish, you know

I'm half Jewish, but no one believes me because my looks lean a little WASP-y... It's sometimes hard for me to get the roles I'm drawn to.

I think a primal role of a man in a relationship is to protect his woman.

We've lost sight of our role in the region and our view of our colleagues in the region.

It's true that I'm drawn to unusual stories. Normal roles don't really attract me.

I've thought about doing other dramatic roles besides westerns, but I grew up in the West and I know the West.

I'm not preaching about things you should do, I'm not political or anything. I'm probably not the best role model.

I think there is universal agreement within the economics profession that the decline - the sharp decline in the quantity of money played a very major role in producing the Great Depression.

For us, someone who is willing to step forward and help is much more courageous than someone who is merely fulfilling the role.

The 'ER' role was not Asian-specific, and my agent knew that I loved the show.

I have to be able to pull you in. How can I diversify my audiences? What role do I have to play to be part of that shift? I have to take that seriously.

the role of the Do-Gooder is not what actors call a fat part.

What I'm normally associated with are darker, more brooding roles.

I'm basically a movie actor now, and my big roles are mostly horror movies - unless I'm doing a guest star or something - and occasionally I try to get back into television.

I think the role of the Federal Reserve is enormously exaggerated.

I am not a role model.

Everybody has an opportunity to play a role, a playmaking role, so it makes it harder to coach. It takes a little more time.

I approach writing stories as a recorder. I think of my role as some kind of reporting device - recording and projecting.

There's no time in life to do all the roles I'd like to play.