Roles Quotes - Page 14

It took several years of hard work in small roles before I attained stardom.

Prostitution is said to be the world's oldest profession. It is, indeed, a model of all professional work: the worker relinquishes control over himself... in exchange for money. Because of the passivity it entails, this is a difficult and, for many, a distasteful role.

I don't put the pressure on myself to be a very successful movie star. I want to enjoy being an actor and I want to be challenged by the roles I take.

We have become, by the power of a glorious evolutionary accident called intelligence, the stewards of life's continuity on earth. We did not ask for this role, but we cannot abjure it. We may not be suited to it, but here we are.

I don't think that I'll always necessarily be, I guess, famous. I think, hopefully I'll just have longevity at what I love. So, I kind of think it's about taking the right steps and the right roles, and doing the best you can... and praying.

National sovereignty is an obligation as well as an entitlement. A government that will not perform the role of a government forfeits the rights of a government.

The role of third parties is to sting like a bee, then die.

Making me into a role model is placing too much importance on what I see as a work in progress.

GPS not only played a large and delocalizing role in the war in Kosovo but is increasingly playing a role in social life.

I like being like a chameleon who transforms himself with each role.

I have more artistic control in a smaller show. But it doesn't really matter. Sometimes you can have the smallest role in the smallest production and still make a big impact.

Most of the time it's the role. Sometimes it's the story and sometimes it just the paycheck. It's the little movies that come out as stories or the fact that I have work to go out, you know what I'm saying, you can only be out so long without work, you start getting antsy.

Everyone should try to live their life like they'd like to be a role model.

I think you can find yourself in life perhaps not really being the master of your own life and it is within your own will and tenacity whether you switch the roles or not.

Everything happens for a reason, everything is part of a puzzle that, even at the time, if we don't understand the bigger picture, everything has significant role in what's to come in the future.

With acting, it [auditioning] is very frustrating. I'm not very good at auditions. Sometimes I audition for a role and I'm like, I'd be really funny in that role, but I'm not good at auditions so I guess I'm not getting that role. It's a very frustrating job.

It's one of those things when you are in a role you have to do what they ask you to do. If they want me to come in and stick it in, I have to come in and stick it in.

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

My role was to bring about fairness in the workplace. All I did was implement the laws that were currently on the books.

Authentic human interactions become impossible when you lose yourself in a role.

Take your ass to the corner of Know Your Role Boulevard and Jabroni Drive.

I always think it's better to take a smaller role in a great film rather than a leading role in something that you don't have complete faith in.

It depends, because sometimes an action role can be very demanding, and sometimes a dialogue-driven character can be very demanding, and vice versa. It depends.

Genetics do play a role in how you consciously or subconsciously manifest your true self.

For things to have value in man's world, they are given the role of commodities. Among man's oldest and most constant commodity is woman.