Roles Quotes · Page 119

Yes. Otherwise I could have done a lot of Hollywood movies. After Crouching Tiger I got a lot of offers, but I…

— Zhang Ziyi

The mainstream media may have trouble resisting the temptation to declare that Karl Rove has been demoted, but the truth is quite…

— Fred Barnes

I'd like to be more of a bad influence than a role model. I'm getting lots of boys to wear eye-liner again…

— Brian Molko

The more comedic roles come easier to me though because I see myself as a silly, easy-going person.

— Sara Paxton

As an actress I take roles I find interesting.

— Emma Watson

One role blends into the next role. I mean, there's strange idiosyncrasies from roles that I play that I picked up that…

— Jake Gyllenhaal

Having just read the script [Havenhurst] and then add having seen a ghost, I went to Andrew [Erin], and I was, like,…

— Julie Benz

In my case, when you dive into a role, to do well and for you to do well in it, you have…

— Andrea Riseborough

My work is one of my passions, so I want to treat it with great importance, whatever the project or role.

— Danielle Cormack

I think the best roles are in dark movies. It's roles that aren't you. It's fun playing someone that's not me. If…

— Chloe Grace Moretz

If we reject the Christian answer, we still have the problem. We're going to adopt some alternative, because the questions will not…

— Dallas Willard

A person is either himself or not himself; is either rooted in his existence or is a fabrication; has either found his…

— Sydney J. Harris

There are historic examples where a soft domination of certain states worked well. For instance the US, who dominated the Western alliance…

— Jaroslaw Kaczynski

In the theater, when people hear that you're writing a play, they want to know what it's all about, whether there's a…

— Marsha Norman

This movie [Moana] has a very small cast, and this was the role [Heihei] that they offered me. I loved voicing him.

— Alan Tudyk

I'm definitely excited about roles where I get to wear cool costumes. I love Game of Thrones, and would love to do…

— Fiona Gubelmann

People, unprotected by their roles, become isolated in beauty and intellect and illness and confusion.

— Richard Avedon

I'd like to be the role model to teach other people who have Down's syndrome to be actors and actresses and to…

— Chris Burke

I have a huge political problem with the role. It was essentially accepting a form of racial profiling. I think it's repulsive.…

— Kal Penn

Imagination plays too important a role in the writing of history, and what is imagination but the projection of the author's personality.

— Pieter Geyl

Entrepreneurs are perennially short on cash, so they tend to hire less expensive and less experienced team members. Yet most founders are…

— Martin Zwilling

When I work with filmmakers today, I'm really an advocate for the women's roles that I see, to make them as layered…

— Barbara Crampton

As women have played an increasingly important role in politics, there is no question that they've brought a different perspective, focusing attention…

— Dee Dee Myers

The role of the teacher remains the highest calling of a free people.

— Shirley Hufstedler

It's hard to get those roles that allow you to show everything and feel like you're really being used and exhausted and…

— Amy Landecker

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…

— Nina Dobrev

Russia's only real geostrategic option - the option that would give Russia a realistic international role and also maximize the opportunity of…

— Zbigniew Brzezinski

With big, emotional roles it's very easy, especially if you've grown up in the American school of acting, to exploit your own…

— Laura Linney

There are a million moving parts to raising kids, and you can't always anticipate them all, especially when they are teenagers and…

— Anna Quindlen

The Vatican has always had a core of diplomats for centuries. It has ambassadors in 180 countries and always played a kind…

— Sylvia Poggioli

When I was discussing my role with other senior campaign folks, they would say, "I know you have four kids, but..." I…

— Kellyanne Conway

All that remains to the mother in modern consumer society is the role of scapegoat; psychoanalysis uses huge amounts of money and…

— Germaine Greer

I've always thought of myself as a role model even before being a 'celebrity.' I've always been doing charity work and volunteering…

— Eva Longoria

I thought, 'OK, Melissa Gilbert is playing my mom, and I'm playing her old role - no pressure.' So I went up…

— Kara Lindsay

I was reading through endless junk scripts that were being sent my way. Typically the roles were to play his wife or…

— Roma Downey

By its very definition, civic responsibility means taking a healthy role in the life of one's community. That means that classroom lessons…

— John Glenn

There are a lot of dream roles that I couldn't do, like James Bond and Indiana Jones; I'd never get a look…

— Thomas Howes

I think that, when you play a mother, whether you play a bad mother or a not so great mother or an…

— Eva Mendes

I don't mind playing roles my age.

— Bhumika Chawla

I realized that people had an unreal image of me, that somehow I was a god on Mount Olympus. I decided that…

— Sonia Sotomayor