Roles Quotes · Page 155

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

— Joichi Ito

Barry Jones once said that Australia is the only country where the word 'academic' is a pejorative. The academic sector has a…

— Gustav Nossal

I like to take chances on people, and whenever possible, promote from within - it sends a great message to everyone in…

— Richard Branson

Methodologically speaking, the rejection by [John] Boswell of the categorical opposition between homosexual and heterosexual, which plays such a significant role in…

— Michel Foucault

My favorite older movie of all-time is "Scarface." Al Pacino played that role so well. It's a longer movie, but I like…

— Virgil Green

I played a wide variety of roles.

— Martin Landau

I think we'll have a bigger conversation first within the Republican Party, then with the American people about what's the proper role…

— Bobby Jindal

With a face like this, there aren't a lot of lawyers or priest roles coming my way. I've got a face that…

— M. C. Gainey

Curing environmental ills requires not a stance outside nature, but a stance within nature, a role not as onlooker without, but as…

— Valerius Geist

The only thing we are as actors are messengers. That's all we are. Correct? We are delivering the playwright's intention through the…

— Patti LuPone

I have always chosen roles that I believed in - not ones that I thought might further my career.

— Adrian Grenier

It doesn't matter if you're the smartest person in the room: If you're not someone who people want to be around, you…

— Melissa Rosenberg

Corn is the hero of its own story, and though we humans played a crucial supporting role in its rise to world…

— Michael Pollan

These days, information is a commodity being sold. And designers-including the newly defined subset of information designers and information architects-have a responsible…

— Erik Spiekermann

Brands must empower their community to be change agents in their own right. To that end, they need to take on a…

— Simon Mainwaring

You know, it's flattering when there's a rumor that says I'm bisexual. It means I can play more kinds of roles. I'm…

— Jake Gyllenhaal

I didn't know that Mahler would come to play so large a role, nor that music and literature and philosophy can interinanimate…

— Philip Kitcher

As an actor, you are at the mercy of others for what role you can be seen for and then what you…

— Grace Lynn Kung

You have to start with the notion that you pick the actor who's going to embody the role, the best person that…

— Christopher Meledandri

Never forget that your role as a leader is to be a steward for future generations.

— Marilyn C. Nelson

I'm an actor who loves to get physical so any role that allows me to access that is glorious.​

— Grace Lynn Kung

Obviously, I play a villain in 'Downton Abbey'. As an actor, you want to get a variety of roles, so to be…

— Rob James-Collier

People who have committed to a service/advocacy role will tell you that some of the sublimest pleasure they have ever experienced comes…

— Charles Garfield

Possibilities play a much bigger role in thinking than most people believe. Without possibilities you cannot make progress.

— Edward de Bono

I never thought about that ever throughout the entire course of my career about choosing a specific role because it would make…

— Edward Zwick

What I see increasingly is that companies are playing political roles. We should actually have our research and our laws map that.

— Zephyr Teachout

We need to understand that we need to get the work-life balance better for both men and women - by men taking…

— Mary Robinson

It's often women who are writing leading roles for women. Most of the stuff that comes my way is not actually about…

— Carrie Coon

I grew up without the rose-tinted look at the profession many of my friends had, but I've been very lucky playing major…

— Samantha Bond

The leader's role is to make sure that strategy is kept super simple.

— Robert E. Murray

I like the character roles. Somewhere back there I really came to the conclusion in my mind that the difference between acting…

— Morgan Freeman

We must not overlook the role that extremists play. They are the gadflies that keep society from being too complacent.

— Abraham Flexner

The good news is that women's roles have changed so dramatically over the past three decades that women now expect to have…

— Michael Kimmel

The writer creates the role on the page and then the actor takes it and makes it their own.

— Joanna Kerns

Our Sages refer to Prayer as "Service of the Heart". But the heart cannot work properly unless the brain functions to stimulate…

— Immanuel Jakobovits, Baron Jakobovits

I didn't even dance at my high school prom, and I have turned down so many movie roles because I didn't know…

— Romeo Miller

Boys want to grow up to be like their male role models. And boys who grow up in homes with absent fathers…

— Geoffrey Canada

Today's youth seem finally to have understood that only by freeing woman from her exclusively sexual role can man free himself from…

— Carolyn Heilbrun

You know sometimes it's not the bigger roles that give you the most satisfaction, yeah?

— Karine Vanasse

Strengthening the role the United Nations can play...will require serious examination of the need to extend into the international arena the rule…

— Maurice Strong