Roles Quotes · Page 110

It's worth paying attention to the roles that are sort of dictated to us and that we don't have to fit into…

— Joseph Gordon-Levitt

Because the role-model pressure becomes so insane, the personal and private takes a backseat to whatever it takes to maintain that fame…

— Amber Tamblyn

Same job, whether it's comedy or drama. Regardless of the weight of the role, I feel like the job is always kind…

— Greg Kinnear

Being an older person now, I'm finding that people are calling me to play various things. Variations on the theme of mother,…

— Barbara Crampton

I would love to [do theater], but there are go-to girls for theater. I am learning that, upon moving to New York…

— Jeff Daniels

Fashion has a political role insofar as following it can give you the impression to belonging to a certain social group or…

— Carine Roitfeld

I also feel I adapted. I was willing to try to fit into any role. The way I figured, it was always…

— Steve Yzerman

If you think of global public goods like polio eradication, the kind of risk-taking new approach, philanthropy really does have a role…

— Bill Gates

If we look at Somalia, Ethiopia and Lybia, to how they're reduced now, and to how they were before, with Italy, I…

— Gianfranco Fini

Unfortunately for ethical egoism, the claim that we will all be better off if every one of us does what is in…

— Peter Singer

McLeod's Daughters was my first regular job out of drama school, and my first full-time role. That was great because I learned…

— Dustin Clare

My relationship with Leonard [Nimoy] was a byproduct of playing Spock that I never would have imagined, but the more I got…

— Zachary Quinto

For years they have been using the role of 'sex object' as a cover while they spied out the land.

— Anatole Broyard

Consciousness does not just passively reflect the objective material world; it plays an active role in creating reality itself.

— Stanislav Grof

We are rag dolls made out of many ages and skins, changelings who have slept in wood nests, and hissed in the…

— Loren Eiseley

Our everyday self is a narrow construct...Our total self is far broader, ultimately infinite. Actors who seem to be playing themselves are…

— Richard Hornby

My life will have been a succession of lives, as if I have had several lives, a multiplicity of stories and roles.…

— Bernard Stiegler

I'm proud of my background, so I hope there will be more roles where Hispanics are being portrayed

— Mario Lopez

We both [with Suzanne Collins ] felt strongly that you wouldn't want to age up the characters, no matter the age of…

— Nina Jacobson

The White House encouraged Tom Brady to be more of a role model. They would've said more, but there was a drunken…

— Jimmy Fallon

I got a phone call from George Miller [the director] asking me to play this role. We sat down and he showed…

— Brittany Murphy

I've talked to a number of actors who have gained weight for roles, and just the sheer physical toll it puts on…

— Tom Hanks

So say I’m your mom.' 'What?' I said. 'I’m your mom,' he repeated. 'Now tell me you want to quit modeling.' I…

— Sarah Dessen

Don Knotts won five Emmy Awards for Outstanding Performance in a Supporting Role by an Actor or Actress in a Series [in…

— Betty Lynn

There are a whole bunch of roles where people say, 'Oh, you're playing yourself.' I guess it's kind of a compliment. Or…

— Matthew McConaughey

When I wrote I took on the role of the despondent and difficult to understand person. Whereas in life, I was easy…

— Billy Collins

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

— Dule Hill

And I don't think that government has a role in telling people how to live their lives. Maybe a minister does, maybe…

— Clarence Thomas

I don't think that stability and the status quo go together at all, not in a flat world where people are integrated,…

— Thomas Friedman

Regardless of what happens, I still honor my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, because at the end of the day, that's what's…

— Tim Tebow

I'd like to see education play a larger role in our daily lives, have people come to a larger understanding - a…

— George Lucas

I learned to walk on my own legs, to dive so deeply into a role to forget that Im acting.

— Tahar Rahim

Can it be that a generation of school children is growing up heedless of the simple truth that the Pentagon's centrla role…

— Alexander Cockburn

ISIS has brought down a Russian airliner. ISIS has now attacked a western democracy in - in France. And we do have…

— Martin O'Malley

In all human affairs, the wisest course is to be passionate about the role of reason and reasonable about the role of…

— Mardy Grothe

There aren't as many roles, and I think there's a lack of openness in casting an Asian character in a leading role…

— Kimiko Glenn

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

— Gabrielle Roth

Our role is to dream and inspire rather than collude in impacting the reality.

— Dries van Noten

I'm not so sure the role of the United States is going around the world saying this is the way its gotta…

— George W. Bush

I'm an optimist. I've always believed the future is going to be better than the past. And I also believe I have…

— Jeffrey R. Immelt