Roles Quotes

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.

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.

The way that I see Christianity is that its role is to enhance the life of every person.

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.

Certainly I find it most interesting to play a role that I can invent from nothing.

I'd much rather turn down a starring role in a bad picture and do a small role in a very good picture.

An atmosphere of trust, love, and humor can nourish extraordinary human capacity. One key is authenticity: parents acting as people, not as roles.

Sometimes it's not about the size of your role, it's about the machine that you're part of.

Most actors are starving. Most of us are walking around with a flashlight and tweezers looking for evidence. When you have someone that actually writes an acting role, it's rare.

people share a common nature but are trained in gender roles.

I regard myself as a beautiful musical instrument, and my role is to contribute that instrument to scripts worthy of it.

The Alessi relationship and the Target one has broadened the role of architects in society and broadened the concept that design belongs to everyone.

When we acknowledge God's supreme role in our life and set our mind on Him, He enables us to be women of hope.

A considerable role in the forming of my style was played by an early attraction to study composition.

I'm not saying I'm the perfect role model. But I'm honest. Period.

It's quite hard to find a ballsy or complex character. So the roles I've taken are those. Lot's of people put me in the dark category.

Essentially, I'm a small-part actor who's been lucky enough to play leading roles for most of his life.

I feel like you can be the best role model by being yourself.

Every role that you don't get burns you for a while.

Because modeling is lucrative, I'm able to save up and be more particular about the acting roles I take.

The primary role of professional societies is the lobbying of the government for special advantage

Passive fatalism can never be the role of a revolutionary party, like the Social Democracy.

I was born to stand out. I don't care whether or not people will find me attractive on screen. That's not why I became an actor. I know that more and more with each new role.

Shamanic healing is a journey. It involves stepping out of our habitual roles, our conventional scripts, and improvising a dancing path.

I'm not intimidated by lead roles. I'm better in them. I don't feel pressure. I feel released at times like that. That's what I'm born to do.

I save money when I'm working so that I never have to take a role simply to pay the bills.

I always had a larger view. I'm interested in real life - my family, my friends. I have tried never to define myself by my success, whatever that is. My happiness is way beyond roles and awards.

We are cruel when someone refuses to play the role in which we have cast him. We judge a person only according to his relationship towards us.

The financial markets play an active role in determining what's going to happen, how the economy is going to function.

I tend to gravitate toward the more powerful roles. As opposed to the doe-eyed girl who bats her eyelashes and runs around in towels, you now what I mean? Because that kind of makes me want to vomit.

I remember I was like five or six years old; I played the devil. That was my first role.

I am not an angry guy. It's just the roles I do that impact my personality.

Suddenly in the end when it's over, you feel a big weight on your shoulders. That's the role of the captain. Unfortunately, it's sometimes like that in sport.

Perhaps we could push beyond these legalistic gender roles if we spent less time worrying about “acting like men” and “acting like women,” and more time acting like Jesus.

Today's films are so technological that an actor becomes starved for roles that deal with human relationships.

I think the nation as a whole has a role in making sure that each individual, each citizen maximizes one's potential.

I've pretty much learned I can let that [being black] hinder me if I want to ... or I can fight for different kinds of roles.

But it is not conscious strategy to go for unconventional roles.

The role of an artist is to awaken the deep life urge that is already in every person.

I've always chosen incredibly different roles and things that are quite offbeat. That way you're not limited.

Mysticism joins and unites; reason divides and separates. People crave belonging more than understanding. Hence the prominent role of mysticism, and the limited role of reason in human affairs.

And I had known Peter O'Toole before in London. And I'd liked him very much. And the thought of being in a picture with him was very challenging to me. And he was playing the starring role.

As New Zealanders, we've been in on the United Nations from the very beginning, played a role in the drafting of the charter - it means a lot to us that those processes are followed.

I'm not paid to be a role model. I'm paid to wreak havoc on the basketball court.

Under neoliberalism, culture appears to have largely abandoned its role as a site of critique.

That's why so many people want to play Hamlet: because it's a completely demarked role, and the actor playing it has to be prepared, through the language, to allow the audience to see into who he is.

Whenever you're in any acting role you are mortgaging your own character.

The role of art is not to express the personality but to overcome it.

My role is the shepherd's role. The shepherd is the one who opens the gate and allows the flock to go through and whoever opens the gate has to close it, and the gate is not yet closed.