Roles Quotes · Page 71

As long as outmoded ways of thinking prevent women from making a meaningful contribution to society, progress will be slow. As long…

— Nelson Mandela

As an actor, you hope to find roles that are challenging to you as an artist. Then if you are truly blessed,…

— Michelle Yeoh

It's important for little girls to have characters to look up to, and also be entertained by the fantasy parts. There are…

— Phoebe Tonkin

Let's pretend there's a pandemic. Let's everybody run around and play your role. Main result is that there is tremendous confusion. ...…

— Laurie Garrett

I think you always have to use certain parts of yourself in any role.

— Joan Collins

I begin to fully understand the lengths to which people have gone to protect me. What I mean to the rebels. My…

— Suzanne Collins

I approach every role from scratch.

— Paul Dano

In my life and in my career, I really love to play different roles. I never want to play the same role…

— Ksenia Solo

Our children don't have to have drinking problems. They don't have to go through divorce or live defeated lives. You can be…

— Tim Storey

I was always longing to do, emotionally and physically, what my male counterparts always got to do. I just felt envious, every…

— Sandra Bullock

It's amazing how the world has changed because, at that time [2005], a lot of actors didn't want to play a gay role.

— Jake Gyllenhaal

You tend to understand yourself a little better after each role you play. There’s somewhat of a self-discovery.

— Shahid Kapoor

We're generating an enormous amount of content geared at this young professional woman, which has been resonating strongly. We also have been…

— Ivanka Trump

If you come from a normal family, you immediately start playing the role of a boy, a girl a man or a…

— John Lone

Today, only a fool would offer herself as the singular role model for the Good Mother. Most of us know not to…

— Mary Blakely

Worship plays a major role in the Christian daily life. Throughout Scripture we see worship from David dancing before the Lord to…

— T. D. Jakes

I realised there were no good role models for kids. Popeye eats spinach, but also smokes and hits people.

— Anonymous

Men and women have defined roles, and it's the responsibility of a parent to make sure they know which way to go;…

— Monica Johnson

Although we can't control which roles are assigned to us, it must be our business to act our given role as best…

— Epictetus

It has to be a very specific role for me because of my accent. I can't complain; I've been working since I…

— Sofia Vergara

The First Amendment has the same role in my life as a citizen and a writer as the sun has in our…

— Michael Chabon

The contemporary memoir is playing an important role in at least just bringing certain relationships out into the open in American society,…

— Marco Roth

I can't really connect with things unless they are spiritual in nature, so I have to make acting spiritual for myself, and…

— Lynn Collins

There's one thing better than having a great actor, and that's having a great actor who's never done this kind of role…

— Sam Mendes

Unlike the background in many of the paintings that I was inspired by or paintings that I borrowed poses from - the…

— Kehinde Wiley

My first job when I got my equity card was acting in 14 plays back-to-back. Playing that many roles, you look for…

— Andy Serkis

First of all, I would shoot myself if I ever had to play straight-forward characters that really don't have much of a…

— Drea de Matteo

The hardest thing as an actor is that you work really hard constantly for these roles, and you invest so much in…

— Adrianne Palicki

We must all take care to resist the tendency to focus too much attention on the role that criminals and prior offenders…

— James Florio

Probably we should let Hillary [Clinton] play the role she was destined to play all by herself first.

— Meryl Streep

Play your part in life, but never forget it is only a role.

— Paramahansa Yogananda

I have passed on on a lot of roles. I purely and simply do what I like.

— Barun Sobti

I don't prepare for my roles. I don't watch movies to get inspired. I don't dig deep. I'll never be that type…

— Bow Wow

It's really not as bad as it sounds. I was attacked by a shark once, back when I was alive. Well, not…

— Derek Landy

I never went to drama school. I went straight into the theater. We had the most extraordinary voice teacher. I worked with…

— Ben Kingsley

Libraries have a special role to play in our knowledge economy. Your institutions have been and should be a place where parents…

— Barack Obama

It was inevitable at some point that I would bump into one of my father's plays. The reality of the situation is…

— Ed Stoppard

There's always been a shortage of roles for three-dimensional women, no matter what age. If you look at the statistics on women…

— Sally Field

Leaders, your God-given job is not merely to preside over something, not to pontificate to your underlings how smart you are, not…

— Bill Hybels

Asked what role he believes art plays in society, Baselitz replied, 'The same role as a good shoe, nothing more.

— Georg Baselitz