Roles Quotes

The role at the DCCC as well as the role of chief deputy whip - I wouldn't be where I am in those spots if it were not for the speaker's approval.

When I played Robin Hood, I knew the great role was Alan Rickman's and it didn't bother me. I always think that leading actors should be called the best supporting actors.

'Chasing Amy' was an amazing role, but then after that, I went and did 'Big Daddy' and you're the girlfriend or you're the best friend. I wasn't getting the Nicole Kidman roles.

Robert Taylor was not only a splendid actor in a wide variety of roles but one of the most handsome men in the western world.

The harder [role] the better. Definitely. When somebody turns around and says, "She can't do that," then that's the one I want to do.

Within the various acts of the ecodrama should be included scenes in which men's and women's roles come to center stage and scenes in which Nature 'herself' is an actress.

I've had disappointments and heartbreaks and setbacks and roles I didn't get, but something always came along that either made me better or was an even better role.

Music is my love and to me acting is more mercenary. I don't pound the pavements for roles: if it happens, it happens. I hate that auditioning thing.

I love playing roles that are physical, absolutely love. Whether it's just that kind of basic level of physicality or whether it's stunts.

I am really not of the school of naturalism. I like style, and you can use more style in theater than in film roles. I love to sink my teeth into a part.

I'm an actor, and I don't look at myself as providing comic relief. I have done diverse and dark roles such as a psycho, murderer, and others in films such as 'Don', 'Eklavya' and '3 Idiots.'

Don't forget that I cannot see myself, that my role is limited to being the one who looks in the mirror.

There are a couple of roles I haven't played that I want to. I would love to play Shiloh.

I surely know that there is no role in life more essential and more eternal than that of motherhood.

The role of art is to make a world which can be inhabited.

I am keen on helping Indian bowlers but I am not seeking a full-time role. But yes I am really keen on helping out pace bowlers across the world.

The role of television is the illusion of company, noise. I call it the fifth wall and the second window: the window of illusion.

Let me tell you something: The only thing that separates women of color from anyone else is opportunity. You cannot win an Emmy for roles that are simply not there.

The role of the artist is to not look away.

Our national myths often exaggerate the role of the individual heroes and understate the importance of collective effort.

All the best performers bring to their role something more, something different than what the author put on paper. That's what makes theatre live. That's why it persists.

What I do know is that traditional gender roles are very real and flipping the norm is difficult for even the strongest, funniest, smartest men.

The roles that push you out of your comfort zones are the ones in which you learn a great deal and really empower yourself.

Just keep learning from the role and not just go for the money.

I’ve been wondering for a while now if the CEO role is one that I want – and the one that I’m best at.

Fortunately, historians are now beginning to recognise the historic role of Islam as a liberating force for peoples oppressed by the burdens of unjust social systems.

I am now in a position to choose roles. I did not have so many offers before 'Queen', but now things have changed a lot.

I never fit in. I am a true alternative. And I love being the outcast. That's my role in life, to be an outcast.

Stop wasting time in playing a role or a concept. Instead, learn to ACTUALIZE YOURSELF, your potential.

Television allowed me to kick the Hollywood habit of typing an actor in certain roles.

You have to take an active role in making yourself happy. That's why I say happiness is a choice. Because you have to choose it.

God is using your present circumstances to make you more useful for later roles in His unfolding story.

Women in leadership roles can help restore balance and wholeness to our communities.

You are pitiful isolated individuals; you are bankrupts; your role is played out. Go where you belong from now on - into the dustbin of history!

What I think is new is the wealth of roles for actual women in television and in film. That's what I think is revolutionary and evolutionary.

For awhile, I got stupid about only wanting a leading-man role, but I have no illusions. I know I'm not Brad Pitt.

I'm not a role model. I'm a role villain.

I furnished the body that was needed to sit in the defendant's chair.[Explaining his role in the Scopes Monkey Trial.]

I bring to a role everything I am, was and hope to be.

Don't believe in role models, but if I do, then I'm mine

My biggest thing about being a role model is whatever I'm preaching, I'm practicing.

Being a role model is about being true to myself.

The role of education is to interest the child profoundly in an external activity to which he will give all his potential

I like looking feminine and I enjoy being a role model. I enjoy being a woman. It all comes down to having the confidence to be who you are.

Masculinity is part of a binary and requires its opposite, since, in the absence of femininity, masculinity would have no meaning.

People told me I couldn't kill Nicholson, so I cast him in two roles and killed him off twice.

To restore silence is the role of objects.

We are prone to overestimate how much we understand about the world and to underestimate the role of chance in events.

Every individual matters and has a role to play in this life on Earth.

Love is leading. People think it has to be two different roles but it is the same.