Roles Quotes

I think if you keep an open mind and actively look, you find these really great roles that you might have otherwise never even known were out there.

I would die if Woody Allen ever called and said, 'Emma, I have a role for you.'

It is not easy to age in harmony with one's roles.

If by chance people would still offer me roles, I'd still like to do them. But if not, that's OK.

My first four roles were all nice guys, Raggedy Man being one of them.

All I've ever wanted to do is entertain people - make them laugh, think, smile, feel creeped out or scared; whatever it is. I'm getting the opportunity to do that in various roles.

When you don't get a role, it wasn't meant to be.

My dream roles haven't been written yet. My favorite thing to do is to dive into the uncharted territories of a new script that's untainted by someone else's idea of the character.

I wanted to build up a little nest egg and go back to L.A. and choose roles that I wanted to do instead of roles that I had to do to pay the bills.

I have never been interested in specific roles.

In Israel, the role of the writer is dictated by the language in which you write. Writers see themselves as cultural prophets.

I always felt that a marriage works best at a farm... where you're together and everybody has clear-cut roles; they have chores, 'you take care of this' and you know. But it's hard.

There are not many good roles for women.

You don't get the good roles when you're beautiful.

I've lost a lot of jobs because I was too pretty. And everybody's like "Oh, poor you." But seriously, you don't get the good roles when you're beautiful.

I think being a woman in Hollywood is a big enough challenge. It really is. I don't want to be one of those people who complain. But the lack of roles out there - it's unbelievable.

Yet in the celebrity-obsessed culture, where everything of you is a shot on the red carpet, I don't want that to dominate my image. First and foremost, I am an actor. I want great roles.

A month and a half after my first audition, I won the role on Lost.

A mother's role is God-ordained. Mothers are to conceive, bear, nourish, love, and train. They are to be helpmates and are to counsel with their husbands.

I'm much more interested in shows that maybe not everybody loves, but a lot of people REALLY love. That's how I am as a person. I'm as extreme as the roles in the shows that I like to be on.

I think every role is always exciting and intimidating. I've never had a role where I wasn't intimidated by it.

I always hope for roles that have some depth and that I can get my teeth into and that will challenge me, in some way.

I've never taken a role where I don't like a person on the page.

The girl-next-door image is a sort of joke; for years, I couldnt get any roles other than as somebody dark.

I'm definitely excited about roles where I get to wear cool costumes. I love Game of Thrones, and would love to do something like that. I'm totally a dork.

It's much easier to play supporting roles because that's what I do in my life: I support my son.

could be a star and maybe make lots of money, or I could change roles all the time and have a more interesting - and longer - career.

There are few good women who do not tire of their role.

I grew up in a household in which the Bible played very little role.

The role of inequity in society is grossly underestimated. Inequity is not good for your health, basically.

We interact with others and we decide who we are. Are we reclusive? Are we outgoing? Are we successful? Are we going to be a failure? We cast a role for ourselves and we step into it.

Pass the popcorn, please. Life is a film, theatre, a theatre of the soul. We play different roles on different stages. At death, we walk offstage. At birth, we walk onstage.

Step beyond your role as a perceiver, merge everything into the flux.

If you ever want to study acting you should be around an enlightened person for a while, because all they do is play roles, since they no longer have a self.

I would love to be a role model.

I've been told I'm too good looking for certain roles, but that's okay, it just motivates me to go deeper.

I asked if I could read for the role of Kevin Costner's caddy in Tin Cup. It was a fun learning experience, even though Cheech Marin got the part.

Over the centuries, religion has become institutionalized, and in the process encrusted with elaborate hierarchies, top-heavy bureaucracies, highly specialized roles and reflexive routines.

As a model you do play a certain role and you know as an actor you play another role.

I've long been really intrigued with what is the ... proper role of faith and religion in public life.

The crucial role of the rich in a capitalist economy is... to invest; to provide unencumbered and unbureaucratized cash.

I have been collecting pictures of airport carpets since the early 2000s because I am fascinated by their role as the world's largest interior visual design medium.

Gilles Deleuze believed that every society needed a madman so we could feel better about ourselves. I do my best to fill that role.

We saw his [Donald Trump] children appointed this week to formal roles in the transition. A lot of ethics experts looking at that and saying that there is not a blind trust.

Bin Laden says his own role is to tell Muslims, quote, 'what is good for them and what is not.'

My administration is committed to a leadership role on the issue of climate change.

It's not the governor’s role to decide who goes to heaven. That’s God’s role.

I'm comfortable moving into the role of elder person.

I think you're just always trying to find really great, interesting female roles. That's the thing for me. You do have to think about what you're signing up for.

The Federal role in overcoming barriers to needed health care should emphasize health care financing programs-such as Medicare and Medicaid.