Roles Quotes

If you don't feel comfortable playing a role, if you're in a scenario that's not conducive for that kind of environment, then that's when you don't do well.

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.

Lenders, including major credit companies as well as payday lenders, have taken over the traditional role of the street-corner loan shark, charging the poor insanely high rates of interest.

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.

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.

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.

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.

I had to learn to get comfortable in a role of ambiguity where I had to seek out advisers and learn quickly.

In writing, punctuation plays the role of body language. It helps readers hear you the way you want to be heard.

All the fans know my love for Chelsea and I hope to be back here in the future in another role.

women, when describing their roles in their organizations, usually referred to themselves as being in the middle of things. Not at the top, but in the center; not reaching down, but reaching out.

My dream role would be anything where I get to tap-dance.

In fact I've been rather blessed with roles in my career that really alter my actual look. I've never looked the same in any film I've done.

I was reading through endless junk scripts that were being sent my way. Typically the roles were to play his wife or his girlfriend - leading roles for women were few and far between.

People are incapable of stereotyping you; you stereotype yourself because you're the one who accepts roles that put you in this rut or in this stereotype

I was 17 and the whole thing was very confusing at the time. It was a great job and I loved it, and to lose the role was definitely tough for me. I was devastated when I lost the role.

The role of third parties is to sting like a bee, then die.

I guess any movie actor can become a role model for audiences out there who enjoy him.

I've been to unpretty places with the roles I've played, and I'm attracted to reckless abandon. I like being taken to the edge of my own abyss.

The role of dissident is not, and should not be, a claim of membership in a communion of saints. In other words, the more fallible the mammal, the truer the example.

I try to stay away from the L.A. scene as much as possible. I feel it helps me to better prepare for my roles if I am not too involved in that whole thing.

The splendors of earth do not simply lie in their roles as human resources, supports of culture, or stimulators of experience.

If I'm a game show host, will someone buy a ticket to see me do standup? If I'm a game show host, will I get an offer to do a dramatic role in a movie?

I seek out parts which are strong women. It's not the quantity of a role; it's the quality of a role.

I never get the tall, blonde, glamorous roles because I'm not tall, blonde and glamorous. I'm more the wee, disturbing characters because of the way I look or sound.

Every role sort of teaches you how to prepare for it.

I would love to get a role that changes the landscape of being an African American woman in television and film.

I was getting offers. I had just turned them down. Then I realized I should be grateful that at age 54, people were still offering me film roles.

I'm flattered if any movie role and my name are mentioned in the same sentence, because there haven't been a ton of them.

A thinker reverses roles and sees the perspectives of others.

The role of a librarian is to make sense of the world of information. If that's not a qualification for superhero-dom, what is?

You have to remember that Hollywood is in the business of making movies that they can sell tickets to, they're not in the business of finding great roles for actors.

Because I'm not perfect looking, I get to play better roles.

Bring into play the almighty power within you, so that on the stage of life you can fulfill your high destined role.

I like to disappear in my roles because I don't have an assistant.

Beauty was never really my trip. Maybe those roles are attracted to me?

I'm a technician. I don't go for the get-into-the-role stuff. I read the lines and play the scenes.

I am very proud of the critical role West Virginians play in providing energy to our nation.

Every role is a challenge.I want to keep doing everything I want to try to do things that aren't similar to one another.

I don't want to ever think that I don't know what to do. I want to deal with my own things, to perform my own roles, to be like, "I did this."

It's the role of the artist to pursue content

I talked about the barriers created by monopolies. I said that it was the role of government to break up these monopolies and that we couldn't do it alone.

I also feel I adapted. I was willing to try to fit into any role. The way I figured, it was always up to me to prove my worth, that I deserved to be here.

All scientific knowledge to which man owes his role as master of the world arose from playful activities.

Conversely, the most powerful thing an actor can say is "no." If something is presented and it's a stereotypical role or something, you can say no to that, and that's very powerful.

When I receive a new role, I completely become my character.

It's exciting to have a role in anything that's Claymation, just because you're always intrigued by what a clay wizard version of yourself would be.

Just the way in Europe, Paris, Copenhagen, and Stockholm, and Frankfurt, possibly and Berlin, certainly, all had important roles, because of independence. Because they were depending on themselves.

I had my moments of being humiliated, and then I had moments of doing something humiliating. I'm glad I lived out both roles.