Roles Quotes

The role of the storyteller is to awaken the storyteller in others.

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.

If you age with somebody, you go through so many roles - you're lovers, friends, enemies, colleagues, strangers; you're brother and sister. That's what intimacy is, if you're with your soulmate.

If you write interesting roles, you get interesting people to play them. If you write roles that are full of nuance and contradiction and have interesting dialog, actors are drawn to that.

There is no one else who can ever fill your role in the same way, so it's a good idea to perform it as well as possible.

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.

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

I'd like to quit the supernatural roles and play just an interesting, down-to-earth person.

You can tell when someone is putting on a role. If someone really believes in what theyre saying, its quite hard to find cracks.

It will in the end, be admitted that everything, in effect is an image and that the least object which has no symbolic role assigned to it is capable of standing for absolutely anything.

I never talk about auditions. Even if I've got the role, I won't tell people until we're literally filming it.

I've always kind of lived my life to be as much as possible a positive role model for children.

For a long time I did not want to do television because I did not want to get stuck playing the same person. I wanted the ongoing challenge of a variety of roles.

I feel nowadays that both women and men are embracing their individuality rather than being defined by gender roles.

I don't really know what the dream role would be. That's a hard question to answer. You never really know, until you're immersed into something, how passionate you feel for it and how it unravels.

I've deliberately tried to calm myself down because eventually I want to be a good role model to my kids.

I don't approach a role by saying I'll be unsavory or unlikable. I think all the roles I've done have been very passionate people who go to absolute extremes to make their points.

When you're a musician and you go out onstage, and you're someone who loves attention, you are going to become a role model to some extent.

I'm never really conscious of saying, "I'm going to take on a specific role to combat a certain image in the public eye." I think that's pretty manipulative and transparent to the public anyway.

I completely took off my eyebrows one time for a screen test. I hadn't even gotten the role yet. So you have to have a commitment.

Oxygen plays a pivotal role in the proper functioning of the immune system. We can look at oxygen deficiency as the single greatest cause of all diseases.

I really want to play interesting roles, but you want to work, so it's a balancing game.

I am drawn to roles that are strong, intelligent, and a little edgy.

I only know how to play one role: me.

At drama school, I always picked the really evil roles. It's a great way to deal with your everyday emotions.

With any role, you're extending yourself and acting out things that never happened to you.

I like coming to the United States because the United States played an important role in my life.

The role that I play as a lone striker, I enjoy it and particularly playing with great players.

The best roles you have to fight for. You have to really want to do it and you have to go after it.

As an actor, you hope to find roles that are challenging to you as an artist. Then if you are truly blessed, you will find that it also carries a message that you can impart to your audience.

Never change your originality for the sake of others because no one can play your role better than you.

So, if you're doing good longform with talented people than you can step out and you can be the president or a construction worker and people accept that. It's really the roles you give yourself.

My main goal, when I started acting, was to show as much versatility as possible because I like playing diverse roles.

If I only get to play Malaysian roles, there wouldn't be very many roles for me to play.

I find myself more and more interested only in roles which move the world forward.

In the coming decades, questions of identity, meaning cultural heritage, language, and religion will play a central role in politics.

I always look for reality. I look for plain truthful roles.

When an actress takes off her clothes onscreen but a nursing mother is told to leave, what message do we send about the roles of women?

Passion mutates into procedures, into rules and roles. Instead of purpose, we focus on policies. Instead of being free to create, we impose constraints that squeeze the life out of us.

One of the things I love most about acting is just disappearing in the role, as much as I can. I think that's one of the things that intrigued me about it.

Success in one role can't justify failure in another.

When I see the leadership roles black women are taking today I am very encouraged.

When executives lead as teachers, stewards, and designers, they fill roles that are much more subtle and long-term than those of power-wielding hierarchical leaders.

I see myself as a classic middle market entrepreneur, and this is the role I fulfil.

As I continue through my acting career I tend to wish I were a little shorter and a few pounds lighter so casting directors would call me in for more diverse roles.

If I need to bulk up for a role, I will do more weights. If I need to slim down for something, I will do more cardio. That's usually how it goes.

I created the role of Captain Von Trapp.

I've never really seen myself in the role of the victim.

the important thing is not what we (look) like,but the role we play in our best friend's life.