Roles Quotes

I'm drawn to roles that have real substance, that aren't just the victim or the teenage girl or the girlfriend.

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.

The principal role of the mutual fund is to serve its investors.

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

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

Pick your role models wisely, find out what they did and do it.

I was trained to be an actor, not a star. I was trained to play roles, not to deal with fame and agents and lawyers and the press.

I don't want to play only Latin women. I want to have roles in English.

I am ready to face the International Criminal Court of Justice at the Hague for prosecution over roles played by me when the war ended

To me Paul is a role model. He is the best midfielder I've seen in the last 15 or 20 years.

I was never the 'babe,' so I knew I'd never get those big roles. I'd always be the best friend or the quirky sidekick.

It is not the role of the United States to dictate change, but to enter into discussions with our friends.

Yeah, I wasn't chosen to be first. I was just chosen to command that flight. Circumstance put me in that particular role. That wasn't planned by anyone.

In mathematics our role is more that of servant than master.

Context and memory play powerful roles in all the truly great meals in one's life.

It is so important as a caregiver not to become so enmeshed in the role that you lose yourself. It's neither good for you nor your loved one.

I'm glad to be a role model, but beyond that I'm a flawed human being, someone who continues to deal with my body image and what my purpose is on the planet.

Faith has played a major role in my life. Whenever I feel an obstacle is too great, I can always go to God in prayer and He'll help me through it.

I wasn't campaigning for a role in a Hollywood television series, it was a fluke. So you've got to have a measure of good luck, you really have, being in the right place at the right time.

The importance of high expectations plays a big role.

It was great to play an ex-marine cockney thug. All my roles are as different as the colours of the rainbow.

When accepting or preparing for a role, fear is the motivating factor.

TV, in particular cable channels, has assumed the role of independent film.

All of my roles have had their own unique set of challenges, and I enjoy that in some perverse, masochistic way. I’m always dying though! Maybe I have some kind of fetish.

I used to tell women graduate students, half-seriously, that the role of slightly rebellious daughter was one of the better roles for women living in patriarchy.

Democracy demands that elected members be able to realize fully the role for which they have been chosen.

The University of South Carolina has always played a role in my life and the intellectual life of South Carolina.

In some roles I have to wear fur, and I always make sure it's fake, like in Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me. Faux fur is great because it shows people that faux can look fabulous.

Never give up. Just follow your dreams because this business can be so hard sometimes. It doesn't happen overnight where you get an audition or even a callback and get the role. It takes time.

When you're a lead role, I'm learning that you set a tone for the movie in a way, like a director does, or like other actors do. But it seems like you set a mood on set.

So prominent was the Jewish role in the foreign commerce of Europe that those nations that received the Jews gained and the countries that excluded them lost in the volume of international trade.

We as educators need to reconsider our roles in students' lives, to think of ourselves as connectors first and content experts second.

The most exciting acting tends to happen in roles you never thought you could play.

The European model is, first, a social and economic system founded on the role of the market, for no computer in the world can process information better than the market.

Poetry's role is to provide spontaneous individual candor as distinct from manipulation and brainwash.

Anthony Hopkins says you just keep acting. Do it all the time and eventually it will happen. He got his break, after all, by taking a role nobody else wanted. A cannibal!

This is my most important role. If I fail at this, I fail at everything.

I have spent many years of my life in opposition, and I rather like the role.

We have to have positive male role models.

When you master role-playing [gaming], you become immersed in an activity that is peerless among leisure-time pursuits.

Three bloody roles, Scrum has, and only three. If you can’t get that right, don’t call it Scrum, OK?

I take being a role model seriously.

What happens with every role, you have to trick yourself, you have to creatively find ways to explore the mental state of your character.

You can't play the role of a victim all your life without becoming one in the end.

As an actress, you go where the stories are. I don't really care where it's seen, at this point. I just want to tell good stories and do good roles that I haven't done before.

I'm not sure that you can say definitively that some roles are better filled by consultants, but I would say that some projects are better handled by consultants.

Somewhere out there is a unique place for you to help others - a unique life role for you to fill that only you can fill.

I often say the last role I played that really touched me and where I was able to access what I really am was Bonnie, which is kind of sad when you think how early in my career that was.

I would never say, "I'm going to do these things in a video to be a role model so people make me a role model." I want to be myself.

I play out my role, I've even been out walking -They tell me that it helps, but I know when I'm beaten.