Roles Quotes

That's the artist's role - to strike out always for something new, to break away, to defy, to... grapple with the unfamiliar.

I come from a huge theater background. The whole action and stunt world just came as the roles were available.

It's easy to question yourself and ask if you're doing a good job, but there are so many different factors to landing a role. I remind myself that a lot of it is completely out of my control.

I've done different conventions and had smaller roles in different sci-fi things.

The role always attracts me. Sometimes I can read something and I can barely see the rest of the script.

The litmus test for whether I want to take on a role or not is usually fear. If Im afraid of it, then I want to do it.

So writing became a way to get to act in things that I thought were meaningful, and hopefully write stronger roles for other women.

Having spent a lot of time trying to figure out screenwriting, I do feel moved and I want to try to write good roles for women of every age.

There's this notion that in order to draw attention and to be considered for roles I want to be considered for, you need a certain amount of notoriety.

I appreciate my role as an actor much more after I direct because it's just easier.

Molly Shannon such an interesting actress that portrays vulnerability and danger at the same time, because she seems brittle in that role.

We are creatures on this planet that have the capacity of self-awareness, playing out our role just the same as all else.

Even if we are destroying this planet, we are playing our role perfectly.

Montgomery's unique role in the domestic slave trade was that it was the first community that had a rail line that connected the Deep South to the mid-Atlantic region.

The government needs a role in carrying out exploration. They will be leading the development of the engines that are needed, and the private sector will take advantage of those.

The role of the judge is simply to decide cases.

I'm not a dark person at all, so those roles are the most challenging. I don't think I'm necessarily drawn to dark things. It just seems to work out that way.

I tend to turn down roles that are too much like me, what I think is most like me anyhow, because I'm me all the time and I'm sick of it.

There's so much hate that we direct externally that we forget we have our own psychos. But that's the role of the satirist - you have to examine your own country and say, look!

If you ask me right now, you've seen the last of Mind of Mencia. I don't want to be a one-trick pony. I would rather walk away and do more movies, comedy and even some dramatic roles.

There are many mediocre entertainers who don't aspire to much more than fame and glory. It's very easy to have them as your role models because there aren't as many greats.

I understand that I'm a role model.

Apprenticeship is one of the dearest roles of childhood, not just watching Dad or Mother, but being taught a hands-on trade.

Well, the role of money in politics is pretty corrupting right now.

E-readers are changing the way we read, and the author is now required to get out there and be a kind of showman, an unlikely role for introspective people used to working in their pajamas!

I take away something from every role.

People say, "How come you play bad guys so much?" And I say, "Well, have you seen many Asian good-guy roles?"

I play a huge variety of roles

My role in the Mamas and Papas was basically just to sing.

My values are non-negotiable. And if it means not getting a role, it means not getting a role.

It's interesting when you get those roles, which seem like nothing on the page, and you kind of subvert them. It's hard to say no.

I've worked with Andre Techine lately and with a young unknown director on a short film. I choose my roles carefully.

If I'm going to leave my family for any length of time, it had better be for a role that I haven't played before, with great people. It had better be fun.

I will jump into most any role.

A Guide To Recognizing Your Saints' was the first real actor-actor part I did, and I hope I to do more. Action movies are fun, but I'd be happy not to do them if there are better roles.

No one's calling me for lawyer roles. I still have a lot to do to prove myself.

Being of tall stature, it's rare to get a series regular role.

The conservative idea is not that government has no role. You might have argued that in the thirties when conservatives opposed the New Deal.

Good roles are hard to come by, and whether they're a few lines or a lead, you snap 'em up when they come along

I don't think I do that much to prepare for roles in general.

To be an actor you need four things: energy, concentration, a lot of luck and, of course, good roles.

I came here knowing nobody. I worked clubs as a singer and even the doors a few times before I landed some TV roles.

I've always been exactly who I am on TV. I'm not playing a role.

I'm not a role model, nor have I ever tried to be a role model. The only thing about me as a role model is I've managed to stay here and be working and survive. For 40 years.

Once I got married and had kids, I moved away from romantic roles, because it seemed wrong to have my 3-year-old wondering why Daddy was kissing someone else.

I've been playing these schoolgirl roles in all my movies. Every time I went to the set, it felt like I was going to school.

I've always enjoyed doing a huge variety of roles, which I think helps, instead of settling for the things I might be most comfortable with.

I choose every role, in association with the other ones. I try not to do one thing, over and over and over again.

I wanted to take on a little bit more of a leadership role. I'm getting older and things are coming to me more and I have to take responsibility for that.

I don't personally feel a responsibility to be a role model, but as the actor, I do.