Roles Quotes · Page 54

The biggest anxiety is just about America's role in the world. People are feeling very unsafe. They really are. They're just wondering…

— Chris Christie

I didn't want to take the typical action roles that everybody was expecting me to take, because I was going to get…

— Dave Bautista

A number of African countries came to us and said, we request that South Africa should not field a candidate, because so…

— Thabo Mbeki

I am looking for movies that are actually about something and that are questioning something. Movies that are provocative in some way…

— Maggie Gyllenhaal

The Greeks were the first intellectualists. In a world where the irrational had played the chief role, they came forward as the…

— Edith Hamilton

I always approach comedy roles pretending they aren't funny

— Brendan Fraser

The second is that the role of China trade in Japanese economy, important as it is, has often been exaggerated, as proven…

— Shigeru Yoshida

I guess I'm just good at playing repressed individuals. I'm lucky because those are often the roles that catch people's eyes.

— Damian Lewis

My general view is that best actor best suited to role should get the job. Obviously when it comes to colour and…

— Stephen Fry

There's no shortage of female role models. They're everywhere - in history, in literature, in the news. Just look around.

— Keri Russell

The most ancient parts of truth . . . also once were plastic. They also were called true for human reasons. They…

— William James

I get scripts all the time, but I read this [Baggage Claim] thoroughly, and I loved it. It was light hearted, cute,…

— Jill Scott

I grew up as an only child of two parents who had dropped out of high school. They had enormous respect for…

— Dale Jamieson

I know well the coequal role of the Congress in our constitutional process. I love the House of Representatives. I revere the…

— Gerald R. Ford

Under neoliberalism, culture appears to have largely abandoned its role as a site of critique.

— Henry Giroux

The role always attracts me. Sometimes I can read something and I can barely see the rest of the script.

— Brigid Brannagh

You should live fully and with enthusiasm, the commands of your faith, but it is not the role of the public servant…

— Tim Kaine

The Ego, however, is not who you really are. The ego is your self-image; it is your social mask; it is the…

— Deepak Chopra

These same people seem to forget that mother also took a lot of chances with the type of roles she played.

— Isabella Rossellini

I turned down as many roles that I thought were beyond my abilities as I did ones I thought weren't good enough.

— Joel McCrea

You'd like to see your team reasonably happy, but that's not your job. Gain their respect and get them to accept their…

— John Wooden

I think we have powerful role-models among us in the American West. Certainly the Hopis, a timeless civilization that understands sustainability and…

— Terry Tempest Williams

Do you dislike your role in the story, your place in the shadow? What complaints do you have that the hobbits could…

— N.D. Wilson

We [the Subban brothers] are role models to a lot of kids, not just black kids, but all kids out there and…

— P. K. Subban

In a way I do hate the process of writing. It's like learning a role where you never think you're going to…

— Julie Andrews

I feel that people who are new to punk/hardcore don't truly understand the music and the role it plays in people's lives…

— Jacob Bannon

Food is not just what we put in our mouths to fill up; it is culture and identity. Reason plays some role…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

'Branding' has taken on too much of a role as a specialized craft performed by voodoo artists.

— Guy Kawasaki

I've only had one dramatic role in my entire career and when I did it, I was in heaven and I thought,…

— Jennifer Coolidge

God has no role to play in politics except to make sure politicians go where they belong. To hell.

— P. J. O'Rourke

It is possible to state as a general principle that the mesodermic phagocytes, which originally (as in the sponges of our days)…

— Elie Metchnikoff

I completely took off my eyebrows one time for a screen test. I hadn't even gotten the role yet. So you have…

— Anonymous

I cherish the accomplishments of Margaret Thatcher and will always count her as one of my role models.

— Sarah Palin

I would love to get a role that changes the landscape of being an African American woman in television and film.

— Candice Patton

Entre le ro" le de sauveur et celui de complice du bourreau,j'aper c° ois tout au plus l'incommode emploi de victime. Between…

— Stephanie Crayencour

The role of the problem-posing educator is to create, together with the students, the conditions under which knowledge at the level of…

— Paulo Freire

I like strong female characters. I try to write them as role models for young girls.

— L. J. Smith

It is not easy to age in harmony with one's roles.

— Emmanuelle Beart

If I was playing Carrie, I might have done differently but I felt like as my character. I mean, I'm definitely bringing…

— Judy Greer

Perhaps the most important vision of all is develop a sense of self, a sense of your own destiny, a sense of…

— Stephen Covey