Roles Quotes

Some roles are easier to choose, some roles are more difficult because they are more daring. Sometimes you have to dare.

A person can be big, because of spirit. A person can be big because of their position in the family, the hierarchy in the family. That role has been played by women who are quite thin.

I want to try new creative things and find refreshing stories. That's how I've come to choose the roles that I've done.

Satire has its limits. It is really up to the people to make the change. The satirist's role ends at the screen.

Who are we beyond the roles that we play?

I'm in a position now where I can play certain roles and when I get older, I won't be able to. So, I don't have a strategy of trying to grow up too quick, I just want to kind of look at everything.

Suicide is the role you write for yourself. You inhabit it and you enact it. All carefully staged -- where they will find you and how they will find you. But one performance only.

I'm not trying to top anything. I'm trying to be useful, to play a positive role, to serve the public interest.

There's enough of a willingness in the West to do sympathetic movies about Arab roles.

I'm not a complete libertarian. There is a proper role in some areas of the government to have rules and regulations - I'm not an anarchist.

Emasculation does seem to be a theme in the roles that I choose.

You are probably right when you say that I could get a role in any producer's film if I just asked.

I'd love to play Carmen - it's the perfect mezzo role.

There are some roles you just don't say 'no' to. Those compass points: you get them so rarely as an actress.

I am not a role model.

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

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.

Take me and my role seriously. Take my talent seriously.

Um, I think every role, whether in TV or film, has a part in building a career and relationships.

I approach every role from scratch.

For any role, I pretty much always go to the script, first and foremost.

I really do think that every time you play a role well, you are in danger of being identified with that role until the next big thing comes along.

I also dreamt about finally meeting the leftist Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Žižek. He is a great role model for me.

It's really nice to go down to an extremely low-budget movie, but that is very daring and courageous and try something different, where the roles usually are more complicated.

I know Mama Rose is a great role and I love having a chance to do it.

I don't mind being identified as any character as long as I'm doing a good job as an actor. I have done all kinds of roles - from an editor, judge, police officer, murderer to a corrupt businessman.

I hope I just continue to be passionate about the roles and to always endeavor to bring clarity and honesty to the table and different ideas.

I think once you've allocated an actor to the role that the character will evolve slightly.

When you act, you're always playing a version of yourself. You can't bring more to the role than what you are

In my life and in my career, I really love to play different roles. I never want to play the same role twice.

Most women in leading roles are very boyish looking. The one girl working right now who I think is a real beauty in a classic sense - the only real 12-cylinder engine - is Catherine Zeta-Jones.

The role of a clown and a physician are the same - it's to elevate the possible and to relieve suffering.

Prisons are woefully ill-equipped for their current role as the nations primary mental health facilities.

My biggest role model? Def my Mom and my sisters!

I'm quite a curious person. I don't mind being the one who doesn't know things, a role I often play in QI.

My size is an asset to me. People write roles for me. If I was just another blond-haired, brown-eyed, 18-year-old actor, I'd be left unrecognized. People remember me.

There is no question that the older you get, the fewer good roles there are.

In the role of Miss Munim, I had credibility as an individual.

If you're going to play a prostitute, you can't be too squeamish about that sort of thing. It's just part of the job, since the role requires it.

I want to be a positive influence. I want to be someone who they want to call in and want here consistently, regardless of my role.

I took the role of Ophelia in Hamlet because she is so naive, loving, and innocent.

Playing the president is interesting because, unlike a lot of different roles, people pay so close attention to who the president is, all of them, everybody's got an opinion about the president.

I was a member of the Armed Services Committee for 18 years. I spent a big chunk of my life studying national security issues and our role in the world.

It is not the role of government to use the taxation and welfare system as a tool to level the playing field.

Curing environmental ills requires not a stance outside nature, but a stance within nature, a role not as onlooker without, but as an actor within.

As an actor, you always want to find a piece of who you are in every role you take on.

When I started off many years ago, I made a determination that there were certain roles I didn't want to play.

There's a crowd of people harbored in each person There are so many roles that we play.

Preparation for any role is a must, so that when the shot is happening, it's about reacting and living that moment. One must be so prepared that spontaneity comes!