Roles Quotes · Page 67

In our subconscious, we all know we're playing roles.

— RuPaul

My first job was a show called The Others. I had, like, three lines. Julianne Nicholson was in it, and Gabriel [Macht].…

— Zachary Quinto

It's one of the things that attracted me to the role [Doctor Strange] is the fact that it's a really widely origin…

— Benedict Cumberbatch

I was not a vampire or werewolf fan at all. I'd never even heard of the series. I auditioned for the role,…

— Taylor Lautner

I've always loved comedy and growing up it was the comedies that I really responded to. So I don't know how it…

— Steve Buscemi

My career divides in two: before and after 9/11. In the first part I was trying to show that Islam is relevant…

— Daniel Pipes

I love people like Renée Zellweger who aren't afraid to look unattractive and really put themselves into a character role and to…

— Emma Watson

Envy of the male role can come as much from an undervaluation of the role of wife and mother as from an…

— Margaret Mead

Depression is all about if you loved me you would. As in, if you loved me you would stop doing your schoolwork,…

— Elizabeth Wurtzel

Well, no. I was getting into trouble messing around with it for roles. So one night I went home, cut it down…

— Richard O'Brien

No movie featuring either Harry Dean Stanton or M. Emmet Walsh in a supporting role can be altogether bad.

— Roger Ebert

I'm half Jewish, but no one believes me because my looks lean a little WASP-y... It's sometimes hard for me to get…

— Armie Hammer

Every role you play is literally - and I've said this before - every single role that you play, the only way…

— Terrence Howard

Since Star Wars, that film's success led to bigger budgets, more hardware, that the great movies like the ones I did, which…

— Faye Dunaway

I lost many a role to actresses who couldnt do the job one-hundredth as good as I could.

— Diane Ladd

I don't view prosecutors and attorneys as natural enemies. ... Though their roles are oppositional, the two simply have different roles to…

— Sonia Sotomayor

I have a lot of variety within me, and the dream role, I think, is actually a compilation of parts that express…

— Ashley Judd

This is why alchemy exists," the boy said. "So that everyone will search for his treasure, find it, and then want to…

— Paulo Coelho

I am very, very competitive and ambitious. I would definitely fight hard for a role I believed in.

— Edward Furlong

I was quite eager to work, anytime somebody was offering me a job, if I liked the role. Because I was always…

— Karen Allen

I have done all of the genres, and the dramatic role is my favorite.

— Jeff Daniels

The role of the schoolmaster is to collect little plastic lumps of human dough from private households and shape them on the…

— Edward Alsworth Ross

Football has an important role to play in society. Players should have a sense of social responsibility, have a moral dimension to…

— Vicente del Bosque

The president's personal staff has a unique role

— Colin Powell

I used to write on my resume that I was shorter than I was because I thought it would inhibit my roles,…

— Heather Doerksen

Directors like Satyajit Ray, Rossellini, Bresson, Buñuel, Forman, Scorsese, and Spike Lee have used non-professional actors precisely in order that the people…

— John Berger

I'm playing one of the principal roles, which gives you more clout and more confidence.

— Charles Dance

There has to be a way to redirect employee's driving ambition and to channel it more productively. There is. Create heroes in…

— Anonymous

I wouldn't say I'm drawn to dark roles, and it's not like I pick and choose.

— Anonymous

I need something different [roles], always something just slightly different, that pushes you and challenges you.

— Dominic Cooper

For every role you get, there are five roles that you don't.

— Asa Butterfield

I didnt want to be 50 or 60 and auditioning for a three-line role.

— Grant Heslov

One of the things I want to do is be a decent role model. I've got a lot of emails and stuff…

— Temple Grandin

The teacher must adopt the role of facilitator not content provider.

— Lev S. Vygotsky

For awhile, I got stupid about only wanting a leading-man role, but I have no illusions. I know I'm not Brad Pitt.

— Breckin Meyer

It is true that the role of the state in the Russian economy may be too big today, but from the fiscal…

— Vladimir Putin

The role of Ronald Reagan had been deliberately diminished; the role of the Europeans, who, with the exception of Helmet Kohl, were…

— Margaret Thatcher

It is still your work or role that finally gives you your definition in our society, and the thousands upon thousands of…

— Seymour Krim

I came to believe that my true identity goes beyond the outer roles I play. It transcends the ego. I came to…

— Sue Monk Kidd

I'm not good at just sitting around waiting for the phone to ring, hoping that the perfect role is going to turn…

— Ed Speleers