Roles Quotes

I don't want to be identified by any one role I do.

I don't ever really sit back and look at roles I've taken and look at any similarities.

The very first show I did was 'Fame L.A.' Everyone had talent it was either dancing or acting or something like that. I was a singer, so I got my first role.

I got my first acting role because I was a singer.

That is the responsibility of the artist, of the actor, to inhabit these roles and put on somebody else's shoes. It's the responsibility and the gift of what it is I get the opportunity to do.

All the roles are for boys. The girls' roles are either small or all the same. There's just nothing interesting.

I most often land up taking up the roles that I most detest.

Our role is to imagine products that don't exist and guide them to life.

People think that my favorite roles to do are villains, but I find comedy to be the most challenging and rewarding.

I have always refused to do something that has offended me. I have been offered potential roles that are totally vulgar.

Just each of us being me, me, me first. The murderer, the victim, the witness each of us thinks our role is the lead. Probably that goes for anybody in the world.

You don't really audition for Hamlet; Hamlet is one of those roles that a director or producer decides you should do it.

However, I'm at a very comfortable place in my career and celebrity, in that I don't have to audition as extensively as I used to for roles but yet I'm not immediately recognizable.

Actually ninety-nine percent of my acting has nothing to do sci-fi or fantasy, I consider it a good part of my acting, and enjoy the roles I play.

I don't know about "dream role." I do so many dramatic roles or period films or [play] traumatized people or stressed-out people or very intense things, high stakes happening all the time.

I like directors that give their composer a juicy role in their films. Some films have a small, minor role for music, some have a larger role.

You get to a certain age and you're just glad to be there. I don't know what to add to that. It's fun. You have to be a realist, so you try to look for roles that are within the age you are.

The only reason I ever thought about retiring from the front part of the camera as opposed to the back is sometimes you think, "How many roles are there for someone my age?"

And that is a hard route for a woman to come through. There's still a lot of roles that have to be conformed to. It's quite an old fashioned environment in a lot of ways.

The best leaders are those who break that mission down into the organization's constituent parts, so that everybody understands their role and how it all builds into the whole.

The president's personal staff has a unique role.

I started getting more in tune with who I am by doing roles or even just being in a class and being around people.

Arnold Schwarzenegger has been offered a role in a sequel to 'The Terminator.' In this one he travels back in time and kills the person who suggested he run for governor.

A role can go from being a babe to anything, as long as it's something that makes me curious.

I'm very much looking forward to my 30-40 years of acting, and, as I get older, I'm really looking forward to some of the roles that are out there to play.

Every role varies greatly, just as emotions vary greatly.

Federal authorities have informed Martha Stewart's lawyers she will be indicted for her role in the ImClone insider trading scandal. Good news for Martha - stripes are back in this year.

I still have a reputation as an eccentric. But the fact is that audiences probably mix up my roles with me as a person.

That's what I love about Michael Douglas' performance in Wonder Boys, because I feel like he surprises audiences that know him from very different roles in his other work.

I have led the way for moving women from traditional roles to strategic positions and inspired girls and women throughout Africa to seek leadership positions.

Law has at least two roles: one is to define and regulate the limits of acceptable behavior. The other is to teach principles for individuals to make individual choices.

I guess I'm just good at playing repressed individuals. I'm lucky because those are often the roles that catch people's eyes.

It's good to be busy on a film set because there is a lot of sitting around, so if you've got two roles to play at one time, then that's great to do.

Theres something important, as an actor, about allowing yourself to be approached by people to do roles. People see different things in you.

In the end, there's something of the puritan work ethic about me that roles really must sustain me on an intellectual level.

I think the more removed I feel, the more I warm up to the role of singer.

I have never played a role in which someone's dark side shouldn't be explored.

I'm a warrior when it comes to pursuing roles.

I don't myself need that role for God. My view is that creation itself, the universe itself, is the most wonderful thing deserving awe and respect. And that satisfies me as my substitute for God.

If you offer me a starring role in a movie, I have no interest.

I've got quite a big fan base, and people like to see you do the same thing - that's why you get offered the same roles.

I've always found a cornucopia of roles open to me. Wait--did I just say cornucopia? I think I meant plethora.

I think there are a lot more writers who are actors than you know; they just don't have roles on famous TV shows that you recognize.

I don't use my writing career as a vehicle to get me acting work or to write roles for myself.

I'm not opposed to doing science fiction or comedy, but there has to be respect. I refuse to be the joke, the fat woman joke, in any movie. I've turned down roles.

It's hard to win awards if there are no roles.

We want to be seen as more than just martial artists, or bad stereotype token roles in American TV and movies.

I like dark, dramatic roles; they're just really powerful and real.

I did a 'Children of the Corn' remake for Sci Fi Channel. I play the Peter Horton role from the original, and Candace McClure from 'Battlestar Galactica' is my Linda Hamilton.

We [Notekillers] aren't necessarily trying to be role models, but if we are, that's cool.