Roles Quotes

Hmm, limelight... No, I'm not Sienna Miller or Angelina Jolie. I'm very lucky and happy, but I still find it very difficult to get good scripts and good roles. It's really a jungle out there.

I was so tired of the parts I had to play. There seems little for me in Hollywood, because, rather than real Chinese, producers prefer Hungarians, Mexicans, American Indians for Chinese roles.

'Green Lantern' I screen-tested for twice. I fought for the role. And I'm glad I did, because I felt like I earned it.

A leader's role is not to control people or stay on top of things, but rather to guide, energize and excite.

Give role players love. Praise can be most valuable when it’s merited by someone whose supporting role is often overlooked

All I will tell you is that I play a small role in someone's happily ever after.

Every actor's greatest ambition is to create his own, definite and original role, a character with which he will always be identified. In my case, that role was Dracula.

When you use an armament, you use it to defend the civilians. You kill terrorists in order to defend civilians. That's the natural role of any army in the world.

Our role in life is to bring the light of our own souls to the dim places around us.

You can never fully put your finger on the reason why you're suddenly, inexplicably compelled to explore one life as opposed to another.

Growing up I didn't have curvy role models, mainly because I didn't see enough curvy women represented in major ads.

If there's a Disney animated feature based in Hawaii, I knew I had to be part of it. I'm very proud to be from Hawaii. There was no question the role was mine.

Man's role is uncertain, undefined, and perhaps unnecessary.

Religion obviously played a role in this book and the previous book, too.

Talk about impersonating an identity, about locking into a role, about irony; I went to cover the war and the war covered me; an old story, unless of course you've never heard it.

Shut your role and know your mouth.

The hustlers on the corner were my role models.

I only take on roles that I'm passionate about. Life is too short to do things that you're not happy with.

Newness inspires me. New opportunities. New places. New experiences. Learning new things, new skills. New roles!

This fanaticism is what feeds terrorism. And this is precisely why Muslims must play an active role in opposing hate sermons and incitement to terrorism and extremism in their mosques.

The role of the artist is exactly the same as the role of the lover. If I love you, I have to make you conscious of the things you don’t see.

You want roles that challenge you and that scare you a little and where you can really discover something, even about yourself, that maybe you didn't understand.

I'd probably be better in an action role and even a more comedic role as I find myself pretty hilarious.

And the first commandment of feminism is: I am woman; thou shalt not tolerate strange gods who assert that women have capabilities or often choose roles that are different from men's.

I never accept lengthy film roles nowadays, because I am always so afraid I will die in the middle of shooting and cause such awful problems.

I honestly do feel that I am a role model for young people.

I would love to play the Femme Fatale or an action role like Trinity in the Matrix or something like that. You know, a part with a lot of costume changes.

I will follow my father's footsteps by doing what is right, and God will take care of the rest. My father is my role model. My living role model is Cory Aquino.

I know for a fact that if there's a role which I am suited for, I'll be signed on. I'll never go begging.

Part of the role of photography is to exaggerate, and that is an aspect that I have to puncture. I do that by showing the world as I really find it.

It's my job in Hollywood to find roles where I get to be a character not a bathing suit.

Every role affects an actor a little bit. There's always a little chunk of a character that stays left over in your heart.

Welfare distorts behavior, makes one less personally responsible and reduces the role of private charity. This principle applies to corporate welfare.

I do just want to be an actor. The thing I get out of it is actually doing the job and inhabiting the world and the role - and I mean that genuinely. That's what I'm in it for.

Fertilizer played a greater role in this case than computers.

Being a working mommy is something I've always wanted to be. My mother is my biggest role model and she showed me how to do it right.

If one took a role with the intention of, "I'll show them what I can do!," then it's not going to be good because the ego is going to just block everything.

There are some older women out there who are just knockouts, real beauties, and they're not getting the roles they should.

I dont work for production houses. I only work for good scripts and roles. If you follow my career graph, you will find that I have not given a single flop yet in my career. I am proud of it.

If a team lives up to its role as favorite, it will have earned the World Cup. By the way, Adidas grew by about 30 percent in Brazil even without sponsoring the national team.

I take an active role in my imaging and how I look.

We live in a fractured world. I've always seen it as my role as an artist to attempt to make wholeness.

We must, therefore, quit our roles as jailers and instead take care to prepare an environment in which we do as little as possible to exhaust the child with our surveillance and instruction

I don't really have any dream roles. It's just things, which come up.

Every role presents a new opportunity for me to do something different and to explore something different.

Being a role model is the most powerful form of educating

You go up for hundreds, thousands of roles, and you get told no, no, no, so many times.

The role of an actor is to make every character believable.

I don't think an actor ever wants to establish an image. That certainly hurt me, and yet that is also what made me successful and eventually able to do more challenging roles.

From the time we're born, our brothers and sisters are our collaborators and coconspirators, our role models and our cautionary tales.