Roles Quotes

In planning an attack, persons have various roles.

I didn't want to get stuck in pretty, public school roles, or I knew I'd end up as some sort of caricature.

I don't know if I could ever really be cast in a heartthrob role apart from 'Twilight,' which I didn't really know was a heartthrob role. I really don't feel I am one.

I had to do two roles in two days, I'm in a hairflux.

Few concepts are as basic as the role of workers in our economic structure and their participation in equity ownership.

In a lot of roles, strong women feel like they need to apologize. But men don't need to apologize for being ruthless and women somehow do?

It's like the high school production of something you saw at Steppenwolf, with the most gifted students in drama class playing the John Malkovich and Joan Allen roles.

I have the appetite to do different roles that have different backdrops. I'd like to show that there's more to people sitting in cars for reasons other than being police officers.

I don't really want to play parts that I think are not fully developed or fleshed out, especially with female roles.

The media has become more forceful, has begun to recognize its traditional historic role and act on it, and truth is infectious.

Even though these days I'm very selective about what roles I want to do, I will do Stargate anytime they call.

I have drive, for sure. You have to. It's a tough business; there are a lot of actresses and not a lot of great roles. I don't want to complain because I'm so grateful.

I often do very serious roles, but really I am a big clown.

It's interesting when you go out into the world and see which of your roles have affected people.

I was very willing to take on controversial roles that people didn't really want to look at.

I'm not looking for anything other than an interesting role to play.

I'm not fussy about the medium I work in. I'll do television radio, you know. I have to, because that's the only way I can do continually good roles.

My parents are desperate, they keep saying: 'Please stop doing these angsty roles; make it easier for us.' So, yeah, I'd love to do some comedy.

What you aim for, as an actor, is to be able to play a range of different roles.

I'm not one of those actors who gets physically fit for a role and then loses it all again.

The bad thing about being with an actor is that the role he's in stays with him all the time. The good thing about being with an actor - well, I can't think of any good thing.

The roles... the deep roles that I've gotten to play have turned my course. They've changed my life experience.

The time-honored role of the artist [is] to speak truth to power.

Experience matters for some roles and not others.

In all seriousness, I'm flattered and humbled to have been asked to reprise my role as Luke in the 'Veronica Mars' movie.

I grew up without the rose-tinted look at the profession many of my friends had, but I've been very lucky playing major roles in 'An Ideal Husband', 'Arcadia' and 'The Memory of Water'.

Many of the most difficult questions concerning the role of ethnic minorities centers on language.

Quite obviously power will continue to play a central role in global politics as it always does. But usually there is something else.

If someone has already done a role I'm about to do, I won't watch the original until after I'm finished playing the role.

I come from the theater, and I've done a lot of character work in the theater, but Hollywood stuff in film and TV, they've been more leading lady/ingenue type roles.

I made straight A's and never got into any trouble, and I still impose those standards on myself. So writing is my chance to escape and become the sleaziest, scummiest role.

There weren't roles for females in comedies for a really long time.

My quest to find a great role for myself started long before this film [ "Our Brand Is Crisis"]came around.

I don't think it's the court's perceived role to do some explaining of a political nature.

I think the roles in television are better for women right now. At this point, I don't want to continue doing the same things I've been doing in film because it's very limited.

Ive never really played everyday people. Ive played realist roles, but not mere daily life. There was always something incredible happening to my characters

The more comedic roles come easier to me though because I see myself as a silly, easy-going person.

I'm aware of people's association with me and fashion and I certainly take that role on for some occasions, but it doesn't dominate my thoughts all the time.

I cherish the accomplishments of Margaret Thatcher and will always count her as one of my role models.

Playing roles that are intense and damaged has always come more easily to me than doing comedies or lighter stuff - that would be taking a huge risk for me.

Just because we are women doesn't mean the only roles we can play are that of the finger-shaking girlfriend.

You want the actors to disappear into roles and stay under the radar, and that gets harder when someone is known for their actual personality, or who they seem to be.

The distinctions between advertising and marketing are blurring, requiring new roles and new forms of consumer-centric marketing.

Usually I play the bad guy role, a terrorist or someone.

It's much easier to have something that's absolutely definite and has a definite identity, rather than a really generic role.

Somebody asked me what do you regret. I said, well I was offered the role of Maverick in 'Top Gun' and I turned it down.

When I take a role I wonder how I can use it to find out who I really am. I don't think I'm so rare a person.

I like a lot of Tom Cruise's roles, he's this action hero.

What happens is things come to you - director, script - and if you respond to it, it's because it's tapping into some part of what's inside you, and different roles tap into different parts.

Anybody can be a role model, anybody can.