Roles Quotes

I definitely am looking to do some more dramatic roles; I'd love to do a period piece. I'm just getting started; I feel like there's a whole wealth of options out there to try my hand at.

Those situations are weird. You're in a room, and I knew they already loved this guy [for the role], so you're like, "OK, this is a different dynamic."

I'm very blessed that I get to dabble in both music and movies, and as long as people are willing to accept me in both roles, I'll be there.

Malcolm X already envisioning the N.O.I. playing a role cooperatively with integrationist organizations.

I'm best known as a stand-up comedian, but I'm a good actor in the right role.

In all human affairs, the wisest course is to be passionate about the role of reason and reasonable about the role of passion.

The multiple roles that women can play in a society if given the opportunity is really a tremendous asset.

The only thing that was sort of Asian [as a role model] was Hello Kitty. I don't want to model myself after Hello Kitty. She has no mouth.

Aging is fraught with difficulties, most particularly for women who have been socialized to think of youth as beauty and the female role as reproduction.

I’m trying to get away from roles. I used to identify myself strictly in terms of my role, but when your roles fall away, part of you falls with them.

Rethinking capitalism means rethinking the role of the public sector, the role of the private sector, the role of finance, and the relationship between them all.

I'm interested in the female dom/male sub dynamic, and how superficially it can seem like a total reverse of gender roles and maybe even subversive or something.

I'm proud of my background, so I hope there will be more roles where Hispanics are being portrayed

I don't live with my role, I'm a really normal person.

I'm the kind of person who if I was playing the role of someone who got shot, I'd probably want to get shot so I knew what it felt like.

It's really interesting, for an actor, that you can continue to do season after season and not play the same role.

I don't really look at celebrities as role models - I just don't see them like that. I guess it's because I'm in that world so I know that no one is perfect.

There's a misperception about actors that we actually choose the roles we end up doing - it's more that we're chosen for them.

I'm only doing whatever the next role calls for.

Whatever role I do, I've got to do the work. It all starts with the body. Get that ready and everything else follows.

You might see some of the movies that I'm in where there are shades of drama or whatever, but for the most part, I don't get offered serious roles.

I think you have to be careful not to do too much as yourself. Otherwise you stop getting the acting roles, and at the end of the day that's what I love.

Once I've accepted a role, I'll let my parents and my sisters read it because they find it entertaining.

When I was 10, my school did Romeo and Juliet. I was Juliet, and that was, like, the biggest deal ever. I was completely obsessed with the role.

I'm a discursive thinker, so quotation has played an active role in the structure and content of my books from the beginning.

If I can't serve as a role model, let me serve as a warning.

I have a hard enough time speaking for myself - I don't pretend I can be a spokesman for anybody. I have no interest in playing that role.

It's so rare, especially as a younger actor, to find a role where it's not just one-dimensional and it's not just a stock leading man.

Of course, if you're gonna make movies, you gotta make movies, and I'm not gonna say no to a good role.

Heres the thing: If youre taking roles that arent intimidating you, and I think this is a cliche that a lot of actors say, but if its not intimidating you, then why are you doing it?

If you're not intimidated or maybe a little weary of taking on a role, then it may not be challenging enough and it may not be worth doing.

I like the 'Alive' part. Now I've made it. Wait until you see the roles I could take after this. You're going to see my gut hanging over, plus 22lbs. It'll be a whole new kind of sexy!

Music is a really great creative tool for me, for different roles.

My mom was a screenwriter. I saw a lot of people who didn't seem very fulfilled creatively or otherwise by their roles in the motion picture industry.

I wouldn't say I'm drawn to dark roles, and it's not like I pick and choose.

I didn't think I could be my imperfect self. I pretended I was Marcia, so I was always playing this role. I became her, but yet I wasn't. It's strange.

I'm a preacher first and a writer second, although my role is changing a bit at the church. I'm going to bring on a co-teacher, but I'll still be a pastor and a writer.

I sometimes imagine that as one grows older one comes to live a role which as a young person one merely 'played.

The role of art in society differs for every artist.

When I do film, I really take on roles and I take on characters.

There aren't a lot of roles in period movies for black people. It sucks because I love that era. But, I love musicals. I love the show Glee, and I wouldn't mind being on that either.

Actually, my favourite roles have been in theatre, but on TV, my faves were Slap Maxwell and Larry Sanders.

He was quiet. I said nothing, hoping that maybe, for once, he'd stop pretenting he was okay. Then I could, too. That we could both forget the roles that had so long bound us.

I love everybody. Each one plays the role they have to play.

I like to take on a different role every time or else I make myself bored.

I'm getting a lot of roles as women who are very powerful. I think that's a reflection of me as a person.

You've got to pick your roles really carefully. It's a lot more fun to play a layered woman, than just someone where what you see is what you get, by far.

Everytime I get offered theatre I get offered a film role too.

In some roles you do that very hard work where, at some point into rehearsals, where all of a sudden it snaps into place. You feel like the soul of this character is now dwelling in you.

Some roles require a building from the foundation up; it really doesn't come to you easily.