Roles Quotes

I wish I could play the lead role in one movie, one great movie.

For a long time a lot of people thought I'm British, because I'd done so many roles with English accents. People probably still think it. Or they don't think anything.

I'm hesitant to do leading man character roles because I think they can be a little boring in terms of needing to be the everyman who navigates the amazing stuff around them.

I'm one of the luckiest Arab actors on the planet, because I've done, I think, two of the finest Arab roles that have been out in mainstream cinema for a very long time.

I definitely have role models. But it's hard to say, "Okay, I want to be Angelina Jolie," or "I want to be Charlize Theron.

After 9/11 and the impending actors' strike of a few years ago, roles dried up for everyone.

It is time to reinvigorate the UN General Assembly so that it can exercise a more decisive role in peace-making and peace-keeping, consistent with the will of the international community.

The primary role of the music industry is to have artists be heard above the rest. It's a big needle in a haystack problem. The Internet has the service and tools to find the needle in a haystack.

I'm not at the place in my career necessarily where I'm like offered every role.

There aren't many roles that are interesting if you're a 40-year-old woman, unless you're Julia Roberts or Cate Blanchett.

When I read "The Whole Nine Yards" I was like, 'Okay, this is a G-spot role'.

I think the UN's role - especially since it's not an extremely rich fund, and that's to put it mildly - is mainly to act as a leading thinker of the world in terms of how to think about the future.

[The Rum Diary] is a prestigious movie and it's got a great, talented cast, so they wanted to make sure they had the right person for the role, but it was a torturous process. It was painful.

Being the person I am, you know, the size I am, being a woman, being a black woman, there's not a lot of roles for us.

I'm not sure I'm happy with words such as "task" or "role" when they are attached to literature.

I prefer to talk about the gift of literature rather than its role or task.

I have to say that as an actor, I really look for the role. I'm not really looking to see if it's for television or film, because there are highly talented people in both mediums.

This year my role is clear: I am a coach, a coach to sportsmen.

A lot of people think that you easily get roles because you do music. I mean, you could knock on the door faster than anybody, but it doesn't necessarily get you in.

I think all the roles I've played really center around either the great conflict or how the great conflict affects the people that I love. I've been cast often as a hard-nosed, hyper-confident guy.

People sometimes say, "What is your dream role?" I don't really have a dream role. I'll know it when I see it.

I would happily, sometimes more than happily, have vacated my role as an animal theologian, if there were others prepared to take my place.

I didn't have a role model when I was younger.

More and more good actors are now transmigrating into the videogame space and playing roles there because it's where my generation of kids get stories from.

When I first was offered the role on Rise [of the Planet of the Apes], I always played Caesar as a human being within ape skin.

You don't go - oh this is a motion capture role, I'm going to employ this method of acting. We don't have anything to hide behind when we're doing this.

Everything I did actually helped to build the revenue, shall we say, of experience, which enabled me to play a variety of roles as I got older.

The thing I always say is that I wasn't going out reaching for roles, I wasn't fighting for roles - people came to me. They always came to me.

Well oddly enough, I liken the years at MGM, and I was there for about eight years, to doing stock, what we used to call repertory or stock, playing a whole bunch of different roles.

Music has as many roles as people make it.

Never be seduced into believing it isn't the role of business to tackle the big issues, because it absolutely is.

Traditionally, the role of the individual was to conform to the organization. In the future the organization will have to conform to the needs of the individual.

I want to work with people that frighten me and excite me, and characters that I don't believe I'm the best person for the part but I'm still gonna try anyway. Those are my favorite roles.

I always think I'm terrible. So it's always a relief when I find out that I wasn't. I've had roles where I realized that I was in way over my head - and that is my biggest fear.

I'm not attempting to be a role model but I accept that roles I've played put me in that position. I don't feel a huge responsibility as an actress to put my young fan base first.

I'm hoping what all sentient beings hope ... that somehow I'm part of something larger than myself, in which I play a role, an actual role that is somehow intended and meaningful.

I hope I'm not implying role of contemporary poet for myself, although there's a kind of resonant paradigm. It's traditionally a difficult role.

Any kind of conflict draws me to a role.

I have always wanted to do something high octane. I've wanted to tackle an action role where I play a tomboy but empower myself as a woman.

The subjects felt more comfortable if they played the role than if they had to be themselves.

I don't have any [favourite role]. I'm just a working actor.

I'd love to be in a period drama - that's my obsession. But being a mixed-race actress, there aren't so many roles you're right for.

A person who is inherently and intuitively curious is often intellectually and distinctly very serious towards his roles and responsibilities in life.

I was 28 when I played the role of a 65 year old man in my first film.

I love roles where I have to transform myself.

Being a mother is the role I'm most proud of.

As an actor, it's my job to prepare myself for a role. If the character is realistic, one can't go wrong.

If you don't question the officials' role then you've got to ask what they are doing

I always get offered the pretty, popular girl roles, but I want to do something dark, really challenge myself and get out of my comfort level.

I'm always looking to do different roles and play around a little bit. That's always the fun part of my job.