Roles Quotes

Margaret Thatcher was a pioneer, willingly or unwillingly, for the role of women in politics.

When you choose to do a role, I think you can either be that person or have the potential of being that person.

I really like trying to find the roles that are actually really meaningful to me.

It's really rare to get a teenage role that resembles something of what it's like to be a young person, that isn't a cliché or a stereotype.

Fame is useful in certain ways, because it helps you get more roles.

Acting for me sometimes is taking whatever personal experiences I have and try to apply that [to a role].

I just try to play more and more difficult roles.

I try to avoid typecasting by doing different roles.

I love acting it's apart of me and I try to put a little bit of myself in each of my roles.

I like to write for actors I know and with whom I've worked before. You can write to their strengths and weaknesses and write roles that are better suited to them.

I've played some gangster roles, but that's obviously not me. When you're an Italian-American New York actor, it's just an easy way to get cast.

Everyone's Taking Control Of Me Seems That The World's Got A Role For Me I'm So Confused Will You Show To Me You'll Be There For Me And Care Enough To Bear Me

I take every role seriously. Personally, I never look at any role as Michael White. I've done that my entire life.

I'm good with all my roles, I've never had a bad role.

I don't pick my roles by genre; that's kind of silly.

I broke into acting doing Latino roles. I played a Latino casanova in 'The Winner' and a Latino character on 'Hannah Montana.'

A good role comes along, and a good role is a good role.

A volunteer, you assign yourself specific roles and risks according to your judgement of their brilliance and importance, and you see when life itself may be justifiably devoted to them.

You know, my role as Vice Chairman is a lot less tiring than playing matches every three days.

I don't pick the roles. Your agent gets a call for you and you go and they all get together, everybody has fun at the reading, and they say, "There's chemistry here." So that's how it happens.

Without question, the court does play a vital role in our constitutional system.

I feel like every role you take, there's a part of you that obviously feels like you can do it.

Draw a line; draw a line that pleases you. And remember that it is not the artist's role to copy the outlines of things but to create a world of his own lines on paper." (pp.28-29)

I kind of take Hilary as a role model because she started out at about the same age. She hadn't done much before starting her series, and I haven't either.

if i dont want to be known, i cannot be known.the best actor can divide role from self.the best liar can divide truth from falsity.

I have learned to pare down what I do and still be effective and strong in a role.

As an actor, I would call it a role where you get to stretch out a bit.

If I don't believe in a role, I can't pull it off.

I don't necessarily wait for that massive leading role. I want to keep the juices flowing.

I can't worry about whether roles will be there for me when I'm older.

I haven't been offered a lot of comedy. In theater, I've done quite a bit of comedy or dramas that included a lot of funny stuff. But in my TV work, those aren't the roles that I've been offered.

I know as an actor there is a certain liberation auditioning for a role that has no beauty requirements.

What is important to a relationship is a harmony of emotional roles and not too great a disparity in the general level of intelligence.

I do intelligent roles. I don't want to be labeled as doing silly movies. I'm more mature than kids my age because I'm constantly surrounded by adults.

Physical fears change and shift depending on the role and depending on the mindset I'm in.

Women had no clerical role anywhere in the Western world, period.

You become megastars when superstars start reprising your roles.

I feel like there is this resurgence of amazing roles for women. It's because TV is so good - there are amazing parts for women on TV, and it's upped the game in movies.

People figure because I'm blonde and was a model, I just waltzed into Los Angeles and got major roles in major films.

I avoid seeing myself while I'm working on role so I won't see "me."

I did some theatre. I had some smaller roles in a couple TV shows and films. I used to think I did a lot of acting, but my 'career' started when I started Homeland.

I think it's just growth, and development, timing. I've been fortunate to be around for a long time. Allowed me to get better as an actor. Allowed me to play better roles.

I've had some physically challenging roles.

I've done a lot of different things. I would say, it's really hard for me to say what the ultimate role would be. You look at a film if it comes to you.

I would like more challenging roles. I definitely would like to something that's more challenging.

There are others who take up that (liberating) role. I have no time to spend for that.

Music plays a huge role in my life. It is music that helps me to endure ... well ... everything there is to endure.

Female roles in comedies are usually quite silly, I think.

What I love to do requires portraying different characters, and you have to separate your life from the role.

My main aim has always been to do good quality films with roles that have some substance. With Power and Beauty there were loads of things that I liked about the movie, which made me opt for it.