Roles Quotes

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.

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

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.

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

The films that I do are deep, introspective, brooding roles that you're in this heavy headspace all the time.

And then, as the years went on, I just kept moving along, busting into doors and getting roles, until I started to actually believe that what these other people were saying was true.

I want to do all roles. The skys the limit.

I rarely repeat playing the same role in a show. I figured I'd plumbed 90 percent the first time around, so let's move on to something where I'm starting from scratch.

Fairy tales and folk tales have always played a role in my writing in one way or another.

I've always chosen the roles that aren't the direct lead because I like being a very poignant character in the story, rather than being seen in every single seen.

Perhaps it is time to debate culture. The common story is that in "real" African culture, before it was tainted by the west, gender roles were rigid and women were contentedly oppressed.

My work is one of my passions, so I want to treat it with great importance, whatever the project or role.

I'm a character actor and that's what I do. All the roles that I've had have been mainly support roles, because character actors don't usually get the lead in movies. It rarely happens.

I am the least qualified person to comment on anyone playing the role of Batman since I so terribly destroyed the part.

For many people, the pope is still, to a certain extent, a positive role model and a moral force, although others feel that this aspect has suffered greatly.

We play lots of roles in our lives, but I got to do that in one movie [Parental Guidance], and ride the feelings, and it was a good challenge for me.

If a person is right for a role, I don't care where they got their training.

Money is the necessity that frees us from necessity. Of all novelists in any country, Trollope best understands the role of money. Compared with him even Balzac is a romantic.

I've had to do a lot of growing quickly for my career and owning that I'm the boss. I used to play every single one of the roles and now I have to remember that I'm the boss.

Feminism is an attack on social practices and habits of thought that keep women and men boxed into gender roles that are harmful.

And in this relentlessly unfolding series of interactions, the U.S. has played a very distinctive role, which most Americans have been either shielded from or simply unaware of.

In a band that works out well, everybody has a certain role to fulfill.

Sachin is the greatest role model I've ever met.

Expect the rapidly expanding homeschooling movement to play a significant role in the revolutionary reforms needed to build a free society with Constitutional protections.

I dont want to call it a conspiracy to ignore the role of the Blacks, both above and below the Mason-Dixon Line, but it was definitely a tendency that began around 1910

In the music world, when we're making work, we are obligated to no longer be completely free from what we are to someone else - sort of like an athlete, where you become a role model to someone.

A critic often has to play the role of coroner, dissecting a work to find out why it died (or never lived).

I think many people are terribly afraid of being demoted by the Darwinian scheme from the role of authors and creators in their own right into being just places where things happen in the universe.

This helpful book on the role of the arts fills a significant gap in the growing literature on holistic faith-based programs.

If you look weird, you can blame the role, you know? So no one's going to tell me I'm having a mid-life crisis.

Connecting with people is an important part of my role [as a politician].

The supremacy of public opinion determines not only the singular role that economics occupies in the complex of thought and knowledge. It determines the whole process of human history.

I was never a guy who came into a new situation on a team being vocal right away. I kind of monitored the situation, observed the situation and then found my role throughout that process.

No movie featuring either Harry Dean Stanton or M. Emmet Walsh in a supporting role can be altogether bad.

Let's start creating better roles that accurately depict people we know so closely.

Probably we should let Hillary [Clinton] play the role she was destined to play all by herself first.

Even in writing an annual report, the unconscious plays a role.

You know, I consistently change in my own life so the roles I'm suitable for also change, and that's a really nice thing about this profession.

I had gotten the role of Fandral in Thor, but scheduling conflicts (with Chuck) prevented that from going forward.

People have to be reminded that unions played a very historic role in our economy.

We overlook just how large a role we all play--and by 'we' I mean society--in determining who makes it and who doesn't.

Mary's role is to make Her Son Shine

I really don't make a concerted effort to try to find a type of role.

A fundamental role in the renewal of society is played, of course, by the family and especially by young people.

Cooking today is far greater than it ever was, and more importantly, a chef's role today has changed dramatically over the last decade.

I take away something from every role. I'm still learning and that's what life is about.

Theater actors like to change character roles. They don't like to always do the same thing.

Our society and institutions are built to push men and women into different roles. We need to change that.

For me as an actor, I find it's most creative when I'm bringing myself into the role rather than putting the role on. I feel like it's more of a cathartic experience.