Roles Quotes

In some extreme cases, women are constrained by what can only be described as pre-Islamic, misogynistic approaches to the role of women in society. That continues to be a challenge.

Unfortunately, there's a lack of roles for women of color, so you actually have to be the engineer creating some of those roles.

2005 was a great year for me for fantastic roles that nobody saw.

I have a great management team and great agents that assist me, and I take roles in feature films that I hope will show my other talents other than just comedy.

It's boring to play the girl role!

I couldn't get any of the ingenue roles when younger because at 5 feet 9 inches with a deep voice I was always too... genue. My career has completely happened since I was 29.

I feel it most in my work, because there aren't roles about women who are spiritually evolving. That anyone would even write something like that, something that's worth doing, would be a miracle!

In western countries, there are roles written for older actors. Films are made on them, including love stories.

I have always felt my role as a designer is to do the very best I can for a woman to make her look her best. Fashion is only fashion once a woman puts it on.

It isn't so much that I choose the roles - I mean, I guess there's a little bit of a selection process - but it's more just what people offer you.

The media sells it and you live the role.

I love the physicality side of roles, I really do, And when I get to do my own stunts, it's that much cooler. I'll do anything the production safety people will let me.

If you're fortunate enough, you get to a position where you can be a little pickier about your roles.

So now I feel I'm lucky in the respect that I can sort of pick a little more carefully, which is tricky because as a black actress, there aren't that many roles to pick from.

I haven't only been offered Hasidic roles.

I would love to play more nerd roles, as well as action hero roles.

One of my biggest role models was David Beckham because of how he performed on and off the pitch.

I want to be an actor who always tries the best regardless of roles.

The role James Baldwin played in my life is incommensurable as stated above. He helped, along with a few others, to shape the man that I am today. My debt to him is invaluable.

The role of the designer is basically that of a good host, anticipating the needs of the guest.

I've never committed to a role without a script.

When I got 'Lost,' I was about to not be able to live, so it was a fall-to-the-knees, burst-into-tears, 'I'm saved by this great role' moment.

Women often find great roles in revolution, simply because the rules fall apart and everyone has agency, anyone can act.

You can only aspire to what you see. That's why role modeling is important

I recognize the amount of time that it takes as a director. I made the choice to stop taking roles outside of L.A. because I didn't want to miss any of my child's life.

If you do your job properly you usually learn a lot from any role you do.

The writers and producers always have an idea, then they cast the role and the instrument starts to tell them how to play the music.

I learned so many roles so quickly as a young singer, I thought it was time to come back to them and make them better - deeper, more nuanced.

People, unprotected by their roles, become isolated in beauty and intellect and illness and confusion.

I was 20, I was an amateur from 14 but my first professional role was at 22.

I once took on the role of the Batman for a commercial about equal pay for women.

When an actor is offered a role, more often than not - maybe 90 percent of the time - you read it and you say, "I'll take it."

To play a role where you get to reveal intellectual change is wonderful.

We don't consider the roles that we're taking in making the world the way it is.

I've been very lucky not to have turned down too many roles that I've later regretted.

I never set out to be a role model for large women, I just do what I feel is right.

There are so many films now where you know the story is a supporting role to the visual effects.

I think that if one's role doesn't correspond to what one says, if one's life doesn't correspond to what one preaches, if one is not true to one's people, someone else will come as a substitute.

To love without role, without power plays, is revolution.

Music has a role, fashion has a role, cinema has a role, intellectuals have a role, parliamentarians, politicians, diplomats - all of it.

I'll be a role model on my terms, but don't make a role model on your terms.

Random Roles? Oh, I saw Virginia Madsen do this the other day! You see? I'm paying attention!

I happen to be a movie star, but I'm not saying, "Hey, I'm a role model. Imitate me."

[Doctor Cukrowicz in Suddenly, Last Summer is] is one of the most unpronounceable roles in the modern-day theater day canon, and one of the most boring!

When dogs fulfill their roles they are ecstatically happy.

Bush always has viewed himself as an "activist," which flies in the face of some conservative notions, such as the federal government's role in education.

I don't choose roles. I go where I'm wanted.

Philanthropy is an important subject of liberal education because it examines the role of good works in shaping our conceptions of the good society and the good life.

Until we recognize the essential role of biology, our attempts to truly unify the universe will remain a train to nowhere.

When you take on different roles and become a different person, that's called acting ... It's a challenge.