Roles Quotes - Page 18

If I'm a game show host, will someone buy a ticket to see me do standup? If I'm a game show host, will I get an offer to do a dramatic role in a movie?

I try to stay away from the L.A. scene as much as possible. I feel it helps me to better prepare for my roles if I am not too involved in that whole thing.

There is no question that photography has played a major role in the environmental movement.

People are incapable of stereotyping you; you stereotype yourself because you're the one who accepts roles that put you in this rut or in this stereotype

When we acknowledge God's supreme role in our life and set our mind on Him, He enables us to be women of hope.

This is the role of writers: to turn their tears into a story - and perhaps into a prayer.

My dream role would be anything where I get to tap-dance.

All the fans know my love for Chelsea and I hope to be back here in the future in another role.

My sexual nature is irrelevant. I'm an actor, I play roles, fragments of myself.

I guess any movie actor can become a role model for audiences out there who enjoy him.

How you prepare for a role is entirely your business in my point of view. There is little enough mystery anymore left in the world in the part of our profession, which should be clouded in mystery because it isn't in the public. You don't want the magician to show his tricks or how he did them do you? So I do think that is a very private thing that we actors should protect ourselves from.

The role of dissident is not, and should not be, a claim of membership in a communion of saints. In other words, the more fallible the mammal, the truer the example.

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

I don't want to ever think that I don't know what to do. I want to deal with my own things, to perform my own roles, to be like, "I did this."

Over my lifetime, women have demonstrated repeatedly that they can do anything that men can do, while still managing traditional women's work at the same time. But the same expansion of roles has not been available to men.

The role of an artist is to awaken the deep life urge that is already in every person.

It's the role of the artist to pursue content

We are cruel when someone refuses to play the role in which we have cast him. We judge a person only according to his relationship towards us.

If I find something and feel as though I can contribute to [it] in a way and feel I'm in it, whatever that means, I'm expressing something that I feel is a way to exercise my talent and help communicate a role as a human being in a movie, I will do that.

The environmental movement can only survive if it becomes a justice movement. As a pure environmental movement, it will either die, or it will survive as a corporate 'greenwash'. Anyone who's a sincere environmentalist can't stand that role.

I think the nation as a whole has a role in making sure that each individual, each citizen maximizes one's potential.

I think our intelligence is a source of toxicity to nature and discomfort to ourselves unless our values are based on planetary values, are linked to the values of the rest of nature. Intelligence is not a license to trample. The proper role of intelligence in a planetary ecology is that of gardener, caregiver and maintainer of balance.

The role of art is not to express the personality but to overcome it.

I'd much rather turn down a starring role in a bad picture and do a small role in a very good picture.

The primary role of professional societies is the lobbying of the government for special advantage