Roles Quotes · Page 262

Israel and the Palestinians must resolve their own differences. The United States can play an important role as facilitator and guarantor.

— Alan Dershowitz

I was born on October 21, 1956 in Burbank, California. My father, Eddie Fisher, was a famous singer. My mother, Debbie Reynolds,…

— Carrie Fisher

By staying true to yourself, you keep your energy high and clear, and you provide inspirational role modeling for other healers and…

— Doreen Virtue

I don't like to leave my children for long periods of time. It's made me more picky about roles that are close,…

— Brooke Shields

After 9/11, many of the most important news outlets in America abdicated their role as a check to power - the journalistic…

— Edward Snowden

I have a friend who says that roles choose you at the time that you need them most, and you have to…

— Emma Stone

Everything I've done was above board, as an actor I wanted to do two things. I wanted to entertain as well as…

— Mr. T

There still aren't enough[ roles for women of color]. And I'd say that's the case, not only for African-American women, but for…

— Jada Pinkett Smith

How ever sugarcoated and ambiguous, every form of authoritarianism must start with a belief in some group's greater right to power, whether…

— Gloria Steinem

Character roles definitely age better than your ingenues. You don't get to keep doing that.

— Catherine O'Hara

Erotic acts are instinctive; they fulfill a role in nature. The idea is familiar, but it is one that contains a paradox:…

— Octavio Paz

I don't want to play everything. So I'll seek out roles that I'll say, 'This is edgy. This is fun. This is…

— Charlotte Rampling

Almost no one will accept responsibility for his or her role in precipitating a crisis: not leveraged speculators, not willfully blind leaders…

— Seth Klarman

The real role of leadership in education ... is not and should not be command and control. The real role of leadership…

— Anonymous

Now, there are roles which are capturing a vibrant moment in an older woman's life. There was a time when those interesting…

— Maggie Gyllenhaal

The role of art is to make a world which can be inhabited.

— William Saroyan

I had made this mistake once before, on a school trip to the Victoria and Albert Museum, when I followed a sign…

— David Nicholls

When you put your costume on and you get your hair and your makeup done [for a role] and you stare in…

— Michael Shannon

Traditionally, marriage involved a kind of bartering, rather than mutual inter-dependence or role sharing. Husbands financially and economically supported wives, while wives…

— Bettina Arndt

So long as the Zulu people are here, clearly I will still have a role to play in this country.

— Mangosuthu Buthelezi

It's funny - more people talk about my 'babe-dom' now than they did before I had a child. Whatever. I guess I'm…

— Lauryn Hill

As you get older naked stuff [on film] gets easier. It's more to do with the role than what men in the…

— Helen Mirren

Role-playing games are contests in which the players usually cooperate as a group to achieve a common goal rather than compete to…

— Gary Gygax

It was a role [Dean Sanderson] I hadn't seen before, and yet it was very accessible and relatable at the same time.…

— Rob Lowe

I didn't have parents, so I lived in people's homes... And because I grew up with no parental role models, I learned…

— John Lone