Roles Quotes

I've worked for more than 50 years on the stage and I have played great, great, great roles, but I haven't played a great Shakespearean role because they're all male. I'm actually very proud of it.

In some roles you do get into a mode of terror. It's always very frightening - the first audiences are frightening.

As an actor, you can do what you want with your role. That's why they hire you; to take the role and make it real.

I'd rather a young black actor read about success as opposed to how tough it was. I get these roles because I can act and that's it. Hopefully that's it.

The problems with First Ladies is that you have to set the standard. My role is to be both star and slave.

You could say I'm a character actress. Or maybe a character actress who does peculiar, interesting lead roles. Does that make sense?

I tend to land roles that are somewhat villainous for some reason. Usually, people blame it on the accent.

Women play a couple of roles. They are in professional schools and increasingly producing the talent to keep the engines of the economy growing, but they're also the nurturers and the caregivers.

Of course men play roles, but women play roles too, blanker ones. They have, in the play of life, fewer good lines.

You know who a role model for me is? George Ballanchine

I don't think of it at the moment, but the roles that interest me are those of young people.

I'd love to play more challenging roles, characters that would stretch my comfort zone and imagination.

The choosing of a role is so difficult for me. That's the real challenge: to choose the role, not to do the role. Once you've chosen them, the process is much easier.

Attention to detail is crucial in my roles as a real estate developer and principal of a lifestyle brand. Fine jewelry is especially intricate and requires a very well trained eye.

I would only take a role that I know I'm comfortable in and I can do. I've turned down plenty of things because I'd feel it's not me, and I wouldn't want to come on someone's project and flip that.

The idea of writer as sage is pretty much dead today. I would certainly feel very uncomfortable in the role.

In all my songs, I take on roles and play characters. It's a unique way to explore ideas and decisions I might not think or make in real life.

I usually do get to play the very sweet, charming roles... but I'm not an obvious kind of villain.

Being a theater actor, I've done a lot of plays where I've seen someone else play the same role in another production. Especially with the classics: Shakespeare, Tennessee Williams.

I haven't really had a major role in film for about 12 years. But I never stopped working in the theater. I do stuff back to back.

I can't believe I've been doing it so long. In the last three or four years, I've slowed down. I'm doing only the roles I really want to do.

The dream is to originate a role in a show on Broadway. That's the ultimate goal.

Some actors pride themselves on disappearing into a role. I'm into the game because I like experiencing and exploring themes, so I put a lot of myself into the person.

A greater international role is important to lift some of the burden from the shoulders of the United States.

The world tends to trap you in the role you play and it is always extremely hard to maintain a watchful, mocking distance between oneself as one appears to be and oneself as one actually is.

Leadership in its best sense has never been about the pre-determined role cast on some to lead others.

Well, I always hope that I'm a role model.

We should be writing more great roles for women, period. Another problem is that movies are generally made for 14-year-old boys, and 14-year-old boys want to watch 25-year-old action heroes.

Hamlet' is obviously a role a lot of actors want to portray or be involved with in some way and that I'd like to be involved in.

I feel responsible for certain fans, but I've never said I'm a role model.

I'd like to create a role on Broadway. That would really heighten my senses.

So much is made of good, strong roles for women. Actually, it's really interesting playing vul­nerable people as well.

Successful actors and actresses have to get themselves into their roles before acting. Therefore, you need to really care about what you are saying.

I am really looking forward to being a role model for girls.

Today Charles Darwin is best known for establishing the fact of evolution and for recognizing the major role of natural selection in driving it.

I've always felt most comfortable in the hopeless romantic, underdog kind of roles who always gets the girl in the end. I don't know what that says about me but for some reason it's a natural fit.

I can't complain about the roles that have come my way.

I had a good theater career for years. I played Hamlet when I was 22, and I've played some really great roles.

Sales management is the most critical - and underappreciated - role in the sales force. Companies struggle to find something powerful to train sales managers on.

We actors always say how difficult and physically demanding a role was. But give me a break, it's only a movie.

Because it may seem like a small role now, but it matters. In the end, everything matters.

It's always challenging to go into a role.

All the government decisions remain and won't be altered until I get in the role and have had a chance to discuss them with my colleagues.

I don't know how one would define an affirmative-action hire. I ultimately do not know what role race played in my hiring.

It's hard to say what role race really played in my case.

If these were my last moments on earth, I’d spend them fighting to save him with everything I had. If our roles were reversed, I knew he’d do the same".

Any role that big is going to be a challenge for any actor, but for an actor of a young age, it's going to be even tougher.

The biggest compliment I think an actor can get is I can't imagine anyone else in the role.

I have done all of the genres, and the dramatic role is my favorite.

My role as a producer is very specific. It's maintaining the creative truthfulness, day in and day out.