Roles Quotes

When I get to tell a story through music videos or TV, it's all about finding the story that I want to tell, so I'm definitely open to acting roles, it just depends on the story.

The very first things that I did, even in theater, were bad guys. They are meaty roles for the most part. With the bad guy you have more freedom to experiment and go further out than with a good guy.

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'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.

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

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

I take being a role model seriously.

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

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

I'm not George Clooney, so I can't just pick and choose. I take roles where they occur.

I think you can find yourself in life perhaps not really being the master of your own life and it is within your own will and tenacity whether you switch the roles or not.

GPS not only played a large and delocalizing role in the war in Kosovo but is increasingly playing a role in social life.

I’m a role model for those who dare to be different. For those who dare to take a stand in their life and have an opinion

These same people seem to forget that mother also took a lot of chances with the type of roles she played.

It depends, because sometimes an action role can be very demanding, and sometimes a dialogue-driven character can be very demanding, and vice versa. It depends.

It's one of those things when you are in a role you have to do what they ask you to do. If they want me to come in and stick it in, I have to come in and stick it in.

First of all, I choose the great roles, and if none of these come, I choose the mediocre ones, and if they don't come, I choose the ones that pay the rent.

Making me into a role model is placing too much importance on what I see as a work in progress.

Everything happens for a reason, everything is part of a puzzle that, even at the time, if we don't understand the bigger picture, everything has significant role in what's to come in the future.

I always think it's better to take a smaller role in a great film rather than a leading role in something that you don't have complete faith in.

I like being like a chameleon who transforms himself with each role.

I have more artistic control in a smaller show. But it doesn't really matter. Sometimes you can have the smallest role in the smallest production and still make a big impact.

For things to have value in man's world, they are given the role of commodities. Among man's oldest and most constant commodity is woman.

I don't put the pressure on myself to be a very successful movie star. I want to enjoy being an actor and I want to be challenged by the roles I take.

Everyone should try to live their life like they'd like to be a role model.

I think novelists, when they write their books, end up having occasionally serving a purpose and playing roles that they never really fully either intended or even understood.

I do think that what's wonderful in life is that we gain perspective as we take on different roles that are mind and heart opening.

If women understand by emancipation the adoption of the masculine role then we are lost indeed.

I think a lot of the time in films, men get roles where they create their own destiny and women are just tools, supporters for that.

I think we all have a role to play in life.

Girls see these defined roles they're supposed to follow in life, but when I was a young child, my parents told me I could be anything.

Usually, so far as improvement in the people's economic conditions is concerned, humanitarians simply play the role of the busybody.

I was in a movie called 'Vanishing on 7th Street,' and that was my first leading role in a movie. It's an apocalyptic thriller, and it's really cool. It's the first movie I ever shot.

I have always viewed my role as a sort of ambassador or bridge between groups to help provide a dialog.

Small movie, small role, giant movie, giant role. Work is work. You've got to tell the truth and show up.

Every actress has to face the facts there are younger, more beautiful girls right behind you. Once you've gone beyond the vanity of the business, you'll take on the tough roles.

If you allow failure to take on more of a role in your life than possible, then you'll always look at it on the defense and you'll always shoot yourself down before it even goes anywhere.

One of the things I find about acting is that the less the audience knows about the actor, the more they're able to believe in him in the role.

I want roles that challenge people to question where they are in life.

No doubt, my role in 'Urumi' has been one of my best so far. It surprised me as an actor and made me more confident.

When the Hollywood thing happened, I thought at some point I'd get to the front of the queue: 'Yes, hello, I'd like to play that role.' But you don't. You just join a different queue.

Play your part in life, but never forget it is only a role.

Genetics do play a role in how you consciously or subconsciously manifest your true self.

My role was to bring about fairness in the workplace. All I did was implement the laws that were currently on the books.

Most people's personalities and roles are locked by the time they're nine or 10. I think there's something to that.

I think each role takes a little from you and circles around you for the rest of your life. I don't think you ever abandon any of them.

The word griot...is the word for what I do and the role that the filmmaker has in society...the griot is a messenger of one's time, a visionary and the creator of the future.

Authentic human interactions become impossible when you lose yourself in a role.

The United States has renewed our leadership in the Asia-Pacific, prime Minister Abe is leading Japan to a new role on the world stage.

Did I play my role well? If so, then applause, because the comedy is finished!