Role Quotes

It's interesting to play a role where you don't really have to preoccupy yourself with any need to convince yourself that you're not acting.

The role of a do-gooder is not what actors call a fat part.

If you play a gay role, it sticks more than it does if an actor were to play a murderer or a psychopath.

I think a primal role of a man in a relationship is to protect his woman.

I think it is important for people who are given leadership roles to assume that role immediately.

Well, I always hope that I'm a role model.

I see my role in the Bonzos as being the straight man, in many ways.

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

I take my role seriously as a pastor.

He was incredibly good as Dr Who. He brought all his eccentricities to the role and was so charismatic and charming. He must be the fans firm favourite.

I enrolled in an acting workshop and my first acting role was on the TV soap opera 'Melrose Place.'

I'd love to play Carmen - it's the perfect mezzo role.

First of all, I try to be a positive role model.

I never thought a role model should be negative.

When I think of all the years in my 30s when I starved myself... but when I got the role of Lois, I stopped thinking about my looks and was just myself.

I came in thinking about Bobby Ewing, but I love this Ray Krebbs role.

We live in a fractured world. I've always seen it as my role as an artist to attempt to make wholeness.

It's the role of the artist to pursue content.

I believe the director's primary role is to create an atmosphere where his company can be created.

They have equal weight and you do the same work you'd do if you were playing a dramatic role.

I approach writing stories as a recorder. I think of my role as some kind of reporting device - recording and projecting.

I never set out to be a role model for large women, I just do what I feel is right.

The message is not so much that the worms will inherit the Earth, but that all things play a role in nature, even the lowly worm.

Britain's most useful role is somewhere between bee and dinosaur.

I choose movies, I never choose roles. I look at the script. I look at the director. I look at the other actors - and then the role.

The natural role of twentieth-century man is anxiety.

I don't think it's the role of the prime minister to court the press.

I've had disappointments and heartbreaks and setbacks and roles I didn't get, but something always came along that either made me better or was an even better role.

If you're going to play a prostitute, you can't be too squeamish about that sort of thing. It's just part of the job, since the role requires it.

I never turned down a mother role.

Man's role is uncertain, undefined, and perhaps unnecessary.

Every role varies greatly, just as emotions vary greatly.

Creating a role is an interesting thing - each show or each situation is different.

The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say.

To play a role where you get to reveal intellectual change is wonderful.

The more love I craved, the more distant and abusive he grew. The role I longed to play was never written into Ryan's script: daughter.

The first audition my manger sent me on was 'The Hunger Games,' and I got the role.

Even on the greatest teams, there's always one role player.

My lifetime role model and hero is Freddie Mercury of Queen.

There are a lot of roles in Shakespeare, basically. If I feel that the script is a movie, I would be interested in doing any role of Shakespeare's.

Living in the projects helped me with this role.

I am really looking forward to being a role model for girls.

Hawaii has always been a very pivotal role in the Pacific. It is in the Pacific. It is a part of the United States that is an island that is right here.

I know for a fact that if there's a role which I am suited for, I'll be signed on. I'll never go begging.

The principal role of a logo is to identify, and simplicity is its means... Its effectiveness depends on distinctiveness, visibility, adaptability, memorability, universality, and timelessness.

No actor ever forgets a role, so I should have realized something was wrong.

I take a role because it makes sense to me, rationally.

Well, clearly Apple is a role model of the American innovation whereby it produced all these products - iPod, iPhone, iPad - that are really now dominating all the technology arena in the world.

I'm a little more comfortable in that role. I love being in the studio.

All I did was basically play myself in the role of Napoleon Solo.

My forte is playing drunks down the ages. When my agent rings me about a role, I don't ask what the part is, but what century it's in.

I still haven't played a leading role in cinema or in TV, and that's something that I long for.

I believe that smaller government is better government. But I also believe that in the areas where government does play a legitimate role, we should demand that it is done better.

I'd like now and into the future to play a bigger role not only in Wisconsin and the Midwest, but nationally. I'd like to have an impact.

The U.S. along with China, Japan, South Korea and Russia has an important role to play in containing North Korea's nuclear ambitions and exerting all the influence we can possibly exert.

Even the most understated ceremony involves a certain respect for ritual and pageantry. No one plays more of a significant role than the bride's attendants.

As a model you do play a certain role and you know as an actor you play another role.

The role of the intelligence - that part of us which affirms and denies and formulates opinions is merely to submit.

Everyone should play their role in tearing down the wall of hatred.

I would say that I definitely play a different role with my style; I like to mix it up a bit according to wherever I am. I dress differently in New York, L.A., Paris and London.

The Supreme Court and courts in general have been usurping the role of the legislative branch of government.

I've never been to New Zealand before. But one of my role models, Xena, the warrior princess, comes from there.

I never set out to be a role model, but I guess parents like it because I am dedicated to school.

I don't see myself as a role model; people should look to mothers and sisters as role models.

It was my first straight dramatic role, and the most adult, intelligent one I have ever played.

The role of Barbara, in Music for Millions, was literally a tonic for me.

In emerging democracies like Russia, in authoritarian states like Iran or even Yugoslavia, journalists play a vital role in civil society. In fact, they form the very basis of those new democracies and civil societies.

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.

I did a 'Children of the Corn' remake for Sci Fi Channel. I play the Peter Horton role from the original, and Candace McClure from 'Battlestar Galactica' is my Linda Hamilton.

As a brunette, I had previously been this serious actress. Then I became a blonde and got to play a completely different, comic role.

There is a role and function for beauty in our time.

I would never play any role in anything that involves the United Nations for obvious reasons.

I had a dual role: designer and advocate.

I can't imagine that I would have been cast in the role, without Jamie Lee giving me a thumbs up.

But I definitely see us playing a major role in St. Louis in the years to come. We already provide service to 95 percent of the markets St. Louis travelers visit the most. And we're adding capacity in some of the most important markets.