Roles Quotes

The Phantom, as well as being backed up by that music, it just so was a role that I identified with so powerfully. From the first second that I walked on to perform.

If I can look at each character that I am given and create them in a different way from the last role, I'm happy.

Having been Scully for such a long time, I have to prove myself in other roles.

Only once have I taken on a role where I felt that I didn't quite understand her, but I said yes anyway. I don't think I'll ever do that again.

Good roles are hard to find no matter what age.

When the gender role starts to descend, boys get into the masculine box.

I never had a great role in a great film.

I'm an actor who loves to get physical so any role that allows me to access that is glorious.​

As an actor, you are at the mercy of others for what role you can be seen for and then what you will be cast in.

The "can do" logic, by its own nature, does not accept limits. And an empire does not have a graceful way to evolve out of this role. History demonstrates this time and again.

Sometimes you have to do a role that might not be the most interesting, but it will set you up for doing roles that you want to do.

I didnt want to be 50 or 60 and auditioning for a three-line role.

Jon Hamm was the first I thought of for the other role in [Keeping Up with the Joneses], I recently worked with him on Clear History, an HBO improv movie that we had done together.

I had done a lot of plays, particularly at my own theater in LA, and it was the first time in my theatrical life where I didn't feel that my role was also to keep everybody else working hard.

The military preferred - invariably - those who could be readily defined, assigned roles, understood, and controlled.

'Branding' has taken on too much of a role as a specialized craft performed by voodoo artists.

I merely consider myself a father, and one role of a father is to provide financial resources for his family.

The telephone operator has one of the biggest roles in creating your organization's image....indeed, many people may come into contact with no one except your operator.

I think a lot of actors take on fun roles and then they're lazy or flippant with them. I just can't do that.

I don't understand the actor that chooses to play the same role in everything all the time.

When I read something, I want to be surprised. So I read something and go, "Wow, I never, ever would have thought of playing this kind of role. This is exciting me, let's go do this."

If it's a great role or a great film, then you're happy to be a part of it.

I'm vain enough to want do a movie again, but right now more roles are the last thing on my list.

Career is important, but nothing really supersedes my roles as a mother.

Goodness that comes out of hiding and assumes a public role is no longer good, but corrupt in its own terms and will carry its own corruption wherever it goes.

If people offer me decent roles in good films, of course I'll take it. But I just didn't like the actor lifestyle. You end up focusing all your energy on trying to get parts you don't even want.

I had no expectation of the level of adulation that would come my way. I just wanted to make a living with a regular role in a television series.

I'd like to find great roles close to home and work on great projects while staying near my family. My family's the most important thing to me right now.

I've also just finished filming the role of Robert Brown in 'Just William,' which is due to transmit on BBC One at Christmas.

There are times when I don't take roles because I don't want to be perceived a certain way.

So there's no such thing as one too many this, one too many that. I remember, you're reminding me of early in my career, somebody said to me: why are you taking so many roles as a policeman.

I had to get used to the theater atmosphere because I haven't had a role on Broadway since Aida. It was a different process from day one because I was learning my parts by myself.

I don't really prepare for roles. I just kind of do them!

I’ve even written a role for Dolly Parton to play the town mayor!

As an actor, those are the roles that you long for. You always want something that's going to kick your last role out of the water and put you off on a new path.

I'm not a republican any more. Not so voraciously anyway - I'm not in favour of the concept of monarchy, but I do see the good in it if there's a good person in the role.

I don't get to play the same role over and over in different movies. The roles that I get to play are quite varied, which is great.

Getting the role like this is such awonderful opportunity... I remember looking in the mirror and going 'I'm superman'.

I've refused roles because they're too simplistic.

Paradoxically, when females reject the male, they usurp the masculine role and abandon the feminine one.

Governments must now take a leading role in moving their nations in the right direction.

In my view, since the case can be made that knowledge too is a natural kind, the role of pretheoretical intuitions is similarly diminished in epistemology.

I love making films, but the best roles are hard to come by.

Mine was the role of the oilcan in making the machinery clunk around.

In reality, for me every role is completely different.

But no, I don't think I'm particularly drawn to the period roles or the medieval roles.

The activity of being a husband, a father - those are roles, too, but underneath them is the spiritual center that connects us all, and that's what's most important.

It's absolutely physically demanding to play the role of Wolverine. There's a lot of action, and I try to do as much of it as I can because it's better for the audience.

The three roles that I have always admired are Valjean, Phantom and Jesus and I've enjoyed them all so much.

Quite often I play roles that require quite a degree of emotional exposure, and they can be very difficult to do.