Roles Quotes

I don't wanna be a role model. I'd like to be an inspiration.

I have to be careful not to do so many comedy airhead roles from now on. I've turned down a couple already.

Jason [Sudeikis] is a successful actor and comedian, I don't think that he takes comedic roles any less seriously than he does dramatic roles.

I try to get roles that challenge me in what I can do and who I think I can portray. For me, it's about creating characters with really fascinating stories, because that's what I like to watch on TV.

Not one role that I've played has been written specifically for me.

An actor has to embody a role.

There's room for role models who make mistakes.

And I thought, you know, I have to say that maybe the whacked out mother is my new favorite role, but I don't want to just do it and become Nurse Ratchett.

It is profoundly troubling when you have Supreme Court justices not following their judicial oath. And taking the role of policy makers and legislators, rather than being judges.

I think Hillary Clinton's nomination and I think Donald Trump's nomination, I think the media played decisive roles in both of them.

There's no excuse to hit a woman... Ever. Not even in a movie role, because you might really like it. And then what?

My very first acting gig was in a movie for Russ Parr. He did this movie called "Love for Sale," and that was my first role in any film.

[Hillary Clinton] is hinted a little bit about what his[Bill Clinton] role might be, but just a little bit.

Once you play something, then you get 20 more of those. So I've tried to avoid getting stuck. I try to take roles that are the opposite of the last thing I did as much as I can.

Basically, the way you get into any role is just doing research on the type of character you're playing.

There is no role I cannot play except a midget.

The Internet is a modern infrastructure that plays a key role in the future of the state.

The role of private equity as fiduciaries is certainly to make money.

Some of the supporting roles that I've done as an actor, I took them because I knew that I would get to watch some of the leading guys in the movies, and also I'd get to work with them.

How terrifying and glorious the role of man if, indeed, without guidance and without consolation he must create from his own vitals the meaning for his existence and write the rules whereby he lives.

A public role endures for the literary high-command, as sages and seers, speaking out on social and political issues.

I do think the president's best role is usually as the sort of initiator.

You should live fully and with enthusiasm, the commands of your faith, but it is not the role of the public servant to mandate that for everybody else.

I like doing films and I wish that I could do more but I still have to audition. I don't get offered starring roles in movies even though I've written and starred in a movie.

My roles don't centre around drugs at all! Shadiness is different - it's drama. We're making movies! You've gotta have conflict.

Steve Carell's Foxcatcher look took two hours to put on, including his hairstyling and make up. Just for comparison, it took me three hours today to prepare for my role as "human woman".

"Admission" is Paul Weitz's movie. This is Karen Croner - the screenwriter's - movie. To have such a lovely role in such a beautifully written script offered to me, it's like elves made the shoes.

What attracts me specifically to roles is the heart of the character.

I would absolutely like to play more leading roles. There’s no philosophy - well, the only philosophy, I suppose, is to try and do different things.

The whole is greater than the sum of its parts. The part is greater than its role in the whole.

I don't care about being a star. I can do a supporting role; I don't have to be a lead

From an egotistical point of view, I'm always interested in roles that push me as a person. I'm interested in humans as animals and as products of society.

I always wanted to do a Hollywood story. The thing about actors, though, is that they go through a streak of roles. The question is, what's in between?

I do so many roles, I can't be typecast.

If you look at my body of work, my characters drastically vary, and so I typically don't play the same role. It makes me feel reborn with each role.

The role of CO2 is not nearly as clear as the climate catastrophists would suggest.

I've never seen a great actor do a major role that didn't cost a lot. They're sacrificial animals of a sort.

Honestly, I didn't know I was a role model.

I get offered a lot of black roles, because apparently I dont look Latino enough.

I was fortunate to love men, so I could put them on stage and make roles for them, and move through their bodies in a way that they enjoy doing...

I entertain for a living and I role-play for a living and I can’t help but continue to do it.

If the role demands it, then naturally I will remove my clothes.

Sometimes I attract roles that are necessary either for personal growth or enlightenment.

There are some times when I think acting can be a noble profession. And when those rare roles come along, like Down to the Bone, you have the opportunity to be of service.

I think when average-size people start taking roles that were meant for dwarfs, that's a little frustrating because there aren't that many roles out there for height-challenged actors.

I stay away from the elf roles; I stay away from playing a leprechaun. All the roles I try to do are something that an average actor would do.

If in my twenties I'd gotten one of the two-dozen roles that I did screen tests for and almost got, I think I would have become bored with the awards circuit, the whole hype machine.

I feel like as you get older, the roles you get change, and you don't always want to do the same tone over and over again.

I would love a recurring role on '90210.' I would say yes to just about any role in acting that doesn't tarnish my image.

Each role has its own different challenges.