Roles Quotes - Page 20

As New Zealanders, we've been in on the United Nations from the very beginning, played a role in the drafting of the charter - it means a lot to us that those processes are followed.

When I went into 'Fiddler,' I wondered about the response I'd get - the backlash because I'm openly gay. There was none. I toured Canada and America, and not one single review suggested that I played the role gay or that I seemed anything but Tevye.

There is no such thing as an accident. It is all part of a master plan. Play your role as gracefully as you can and relax.

Suddenly in the end when it's over, you feel a big weight on your shoulders. That's the role of the captain. Unfortunately, it's sometimes like that in sport.

Misconceptions play a prominent role in my view of the world.

The financial markets play an active role in determining what's going to happen, how the economy is going to function.

I save money when I'm working so that I never have to take a role simply to pay the bills.

I was born to stand out. I don't care whether or not people will find me attractive on screen. That's not why I became an actor. I know that more and more with each new role.

I regard myself as a beautiful musical instrument, and my role is to contribute that instrument to scripts worthy of it.

Most actors are starving. Most of us are walking around with a flashlight and tweezers looking for evidence. When you have someone that actually writes an acting role, it's rare.

At my age, you sort of fart your way into a role.

My main goal, when I started acting, was to show as much versatility as possible because I like playing diverse roles.

I'm not paid to be a role model. I'm paid to wreak havoc on the basketball court.

That's why so many people want to play Hamlet: because it's a completely demarked role, and the actor playing it has to be prepared, through the language, to allow the audience to see into who he is.

Certainly I find it most interesting to play a role that I can invent from nothing.

I'd like to quit the supernatural roles and play just an interesting, down-to-earth person.

And I had known Peter O'Toole before in London. And I'd liked him very much. And the thought of being in a picture with him was very challenging to me. And he was playing the starring role.

I've always chosen incredibly different roles and things that are quite offbeat. That way you're not limited.

But it is not conscious strategy to go for unconventional roles.

I don't care whether it's a chance meeting or playing a role that you thought was totally wrong but you did it anyway. It will often turn out to be the thing that will lead you to the role which is sublime.

Essentially, I'm a small-part actor who's been lucky enough to play leading roles for most of his life.

The words of language, as they are written or spoken, do not seem to play any role in my mechanism of thought. The physical entities which seem to serve as elements in thought are certain signs and more or less clear images.

I see one single suitable role for my life's work: for it to be a gift to others.

My approach to the work is the same, whether I had the lead or a supporting role. I consider myself a character actor in the true sense of the word. Unless I'm doing my autobiography, I'm playing a character.

I discovered ... that a novel has nothing to do with words in the first instance. Writing a novel is a cosmological matter, like the story told by Genesis (we all have to choose our role models, as Woody Allen puts it).