Roles Quotes

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

I think part of my reputation has to do with the difficult roles I've played. Actors do tend to get identified with their characters.

NATO's got a vital role to play. It's very important that we protect NATO.

I never really said I want to be a role model. But then when it happened I was so down for it.

I'm a better person when I'm preparing for a role, when I'm studying a role.

I went to the audition for a laugh and got the part for the way I walked down the corridor. There's no justice is there? [on getting a role from an audition

I have got one of those faces that change every day: you can dress me up, make me look vampy and then make me look 12 years old. But don't all women do this thing? We all take on these roles.

If I was a nightingale I would sing like a nightingale; if a swan, like a swan. But since I am a rational creature my role is to praise God.

At the beginning of every role I take, I have to start from basics and build it up. It's like a new construction.

I think that I've still not been successful at playing the role of the retired actor, and I'd like to work on that.

The roles for women in theatre are much better than they are in film.

Comparing man and woman on the whole, one may say: woman would not possess a genius for ornamentation if she did not also possessan instinct for the secondary role.

I'm going to create my own opportunities. If I can't find the roles I want, I'll just make them.

There is something good about the character of Gomez. I wouldn't trade the association with him for anything or any role that I might have missed.

I think a few of my most visible roles are crazy or peppy girls, but I've played a lot of characters who are soldiers, or fighters, or meditative characters, and a lot of this stuff hasn't come out.

Why people pick me for the roles that they do is a bit of a mystery.

You can have a role in a movie that was originally something minor in terms of screen time, and all of a sudden we see something and go, wow, that's cool.

One role of government is to go where venture capital won't.

That's what I love about acting, is playing different roles. I want to work for the character, and not make it work for me.

I've rarely played glamorous roles. I don't mind looking plain on camera.

My quarrel is not with the legitimate role of government but with the unlimited role of government.

Faith greatly shaped America's role in the world. We are a country that embodies the Bible verse from Luke chapter 12, verse 48 "From everyone who has been given much, much will be demanded."

I always wondered if there was a purpose to the universe, if there was a plan, if there was some sort of organizing factor, hopefully that I played a role in.

I speak to my agent about great roles, and he's like, 'They are all going to Will Smith.

I'm not in a rush to do anything. And I wouldn't say I pick and choose. When it comes to producers picking people for roles I don't think it's between me and Tom Cruise, do you know what I mean?

I think you always have to use certain parts of yourself in any role.

The role of the intellectual cannot be to excuse the violence of one side and condemn that of the other.

People were confused by me, and at first I was auditioning a lot for the crazy characters or the victim, someone who'd been attacked. Which is great, because usually those are the best acting roles.

I'm used to working really hard to get a role. I was always auditioning and talking my way into roles.

I hardly ever belted; I was a soprano and a comedienne and intended on doing mostly soprano legit roles but my first equity show, to my surprise, was Blues in The Night at The Cleveland Playhouse.

Never underestimate the role pretension plays when it comes to creating euphemistic language.