Roles Quotes

I know I'm responsible for not having got the kind of roles that I'd have liked to.

The role of the federal government should be neutral toward culture just as it is toward religion.

I'm like John Wayne. I only play good guys. Describing his cameo role on a TV series.

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

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

The most glaring deficiency in traditional economic models is that they completely ignore the role of context in evaluation.

I do a happy dance even when I get a guest-star role.

An actor is an impersonator; he plays many different roles. If you played the same role all the time, God that'd be a boring career.

I can't do victim roles - it makes me sick.

My studies are important to me. I made the honor role just recently, with 2 A's and 2 B's.

Obviously the first roles that you're proud of are the ones that everybody else liked too.

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.

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

I had two roles for which I compromised.

I love the role of Ripley.

In varying degrees, the authority of the dharma was replaced by the authority of the guru, who came, in some traditions, to assume the role of the Buddha himself.

With America's role in the world, we have the ability to help protect the freedom of religion around the globe.

I'm not a role model to my kids. They're a role model to me.

I learned to walk on my own legs, to dive so deeply into a role to forget that Im acting.

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

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

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.

I look for struggle in the roles I choose - struggle and perseverance.

It makes people nervous for one to step out of one's role.

Marriage cannot be a job as it has become.

Cool is the emotional straightjacket. It makes us less available for connection which makes us less equipped for leadership roles.

However you envisage your role in life, all you can do is perform it as best you can.

Even though I've done a lot it also feels like I haven't done a lot. I've sort of popped in for supporting roles in things, and that's been really delightful.

I don't want to make a habit of just playing small roles, because I really enjoy the process of being part of a film and staying on it for the length of time that everybody else is as well.

I didn't understand that playing roles in any relationship is false and will inevitably lead to the relationship's collapse. No one can be any one thing all the time.

I think I have a lot to offer doing supporting roles as well.

All of us are playing roles, and there's nothing wrong with playing roles because we have to live in this world - the problem is only when we believe in those roles.

Helen Mirren and Meryl Streep can play with the boys but there just aren't that many tour-de-force roles out there for women.

When you're brown and Indian, you get offered a lot of doctor roles.

People lament that there's no roles being written for South Asian or Muslim characters. But their parents don't want their children to go into the entertainment field. You don't get it both ways.

I try to make all of my roles likeable in some way.

The outcome of this culture of discrimination is that young people are routinely denied the roles in society they can, should, and need to be occupying.

As a kid, I'd go into the bathroom when I was having a tantrum. I'd be in the bathroom crying, studying myself in the mirror. I was preparing for future roles.

We can't do both. If you want us to lead, don't criticize us. And if you want us to play a supporting role, then tell us who is going to lead.

But when I think of superchicks, I think of the roles, not the variety.

I get to do interesting roles and make a living.

I don't have the illusion that there's any position or role in the world with as much potential for bringing about change as that of president of the United States.

Everything changes with age. The parts change with age, your feelings about them change, roles that I would've wanted to play 10 years ago, I don't want to play now.

There are a lot of roles in Shakespeare, basically. If I feel that the script is a movie, I would be interested in doing any role of Shakespeare's.

In the end, we are not the roles we play. We are the light that animates every soul in the dance we call life.

This movie [Moana] has a very small cast, and this was the role [Heihei] that they offered me. I loved voicing him.

The role of the Guru is to show the person that he already has what he is looking for.

When I get a role, I try to delve as deeply as possible into the character.

I buy myself a present whenever I don't get a role that I really wanted.

I've had that experience many, many, times - when you don't get roles. I'd developed a good muscle for shaking it off.