Roles Quotes · Page 50

I learned so many roles so quickly as a young singer, I thought it was time to come back to them and…

— Renee Fleming

I always get role models, people from real life who've lived the lives of the characters, and talk it through together, me,…

— Tony Scott

Role models who push us to exceed our limits, physical training that removes our spare tires, and risks that expand our sphere…

— Anonymous

You don't get the good roles when you're beautiful.

— Eva Longoria

I also think if you get sort of early success there's always this part of you which feels like, "I need to…

— Robert Pattinson

I think a role model is a mentor - someone you see on a daily basis, and you learn from them.

— Denzel Washington

There aren't many roles that are interesting if you're a 40-year-old woman, unless you're Julia Roberts or Cate Blanchett.

— Amanda Peet

Acting is about giving something away, handing yourself over to whatever role you are asked to play. I'm not hiding or escaping…

— Alan Rickman

The role of government has never been to plan every detail or dictate every outcome. At its best, government has simply knocked…

— Barack Obama

I generally like grey roles. My interpretation of drama is different from the popular perception. Acting, for me, is not about overplaying,…

— Emraan Hashmi

[Democrats] are trying on every front to increase the role of government.

— Barney Frank

I haven't done much comedy; I would love to. I love doing dramatic roles, but I'd love to do comedy. I think…

— Richard Harmon

I wouldn't use the word 'scared' for my role as Hitchcock, but it was my most insecure. Taking on such a formidable,…

— Anthony Hopkins

I think the role of the Federal Reserve is enormously exaggerated.

— John Kenneth Galbraith

Hamlet' is obviously a role a lot of actors want to portray or be involved with in some way and that I'd…

— Jamie Campbell Bower

In the economy we guarantee all market players the same conditions, and the private sector plays an increasingly important role. We are…

— Nguyen Minh Triet

Each human being can at once be a fighter and forgiver. When self-doubt tortures him, he most play the role of a…

— Sri Chinmoy

I'm getting bigger roles, and I'm on location more, and I have a wife and family. I'd rather work less, and I've…

— William H. Macy

I happen to agree with the anti-dictatorship policies, but I don't think it's the role of General Electric to support them or…

— Noam Chomsky

We are near 2010….2010!! Yet race, sex and religion still play a major role in a hate driven society. For the love…

— Asher Roth

With movies, you can do a lot more roles a lot faster. My favorite thing about acting is taking on new characters.…

— Sammi Hanratty

It's important to recognize the vital role that the financial markets play in our economy and that so many of you are…

— Hillary Clinton

I think there is universal agreement within the economics profession that the decline - the sharp decline in the quantity of money…

— Milton Friedman

I don't think of myself as a photographer. I've engaged questions regarding photography's role in culture... but it is an engagement with…

— Sarah Charlesworth

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

— M. C. Gainey

There aren't as many roles for people who look like me, and it was always complicated when it came to casting my…

— Meaghan Rath

The chief role of the universities is to prolong adolescence into middle age, at which point early retirement ensures that we lack…

— J. G. Ballard

I want to balance commercial and off-beat roles.

— Daisy Shah

I've done roles before where I've wanted to be buff and sort of fit or whatever. And I like to try and…

— Guy Pearce

I remember that it was never that difficult for me to get a director to look up and pay attention to me.…

— James McAvoy

There's lots of flaws and frailties and cracks in the armor, and nobody wants to put themselves out there as some kind…

— Bonnie Raitt

I kind of see clothes a bit like role-playing, depending what mood I'm in.

— Lily Cole

Lance Guest in 'The Last Starfighter' had such integrity and held himself to such a high standard that I just wanted to…

— Catherine Mary Stewart

Women's battle for financial equality has barely been joined, much less won. Society still traditionally assigns to woman the role of money-handler…

— Paula Nelson

We all have those dreams of going back in time and seeing what it was like when our parents were younger. Maybe…

— Simon Helberg

Whenever you're in any acting role you are mortgaging your own character.

— Jack Dee

Any acting roles will be few and far between until my kids are older and by then, who knows what I'll want…

— Drew Barrymore

Coming out of 'Spy Kids,' I immediately wanted to do more grown-up roles, and I was turning down a lot of the…

— Daryl Sabara

The problem, thus, is not whether or not women are to combine marriage and motherhood with work or career but how they…

— Jessie Bernard

I would die if Woody Allen ever called and said, 'Emma, I have a role for you.'

— Emma Roberts