Roles Quotes - Page 23

I've always kind of lived my life to be as much as possible a positive role model for children.

the important thing is not what we (look) like,but the role we play in our best friend's life.

I never talk about auditions. Even if I've got the role, I won't tell people until we're literally filming it.

The role of the comedian is to say 'Wait a minute' when a consensus starts to form.

I am drawn to roles that are strong, intelligent, and a little edgy.

It's one of the things that attracted me to the role [Doctor Strange] is the fact that it's a really widely origin story, I mean this is part of it, but of course there's the whole chapter before where he's the neurosurgeon who has the accident. It's fantastic.

It took me years to live down Dracula and convince the film producers that I would play almost any other type of role.

I... was not too happy to suddenly take on this public role thrust upon me. They just assumed I was the Joan of Arc of the women's movement. And I wasn't at all. It put a lot of unnecessary pressure on me.

I'm not playing a role. I'm being myself, whatever the hell that is.

Therapy? I don't need that. The roles that I choose are my therapy.

It will in the end, be admitted that everything, in effect is an image and that the least object which has no symbolic role assigned to it is capable of standing for absolutely anything.

I don't really know what the dream role would be. That's a hard question to answer. You never really know, until you're immersed into something, how passionate you feel for it and how it unravels.

I think there are roles there; we just have to choose them. We have to fight for them.

I didn't audition for the part! The role was offered to me, and I was so excited to be a part of 'The Haunting Hour.' It is such a cool show and it was so much fun shooting the 'Intruders.'

Micro managing anything is not a great role for government.

The threat to globalization is not the wasted American dollars but Washington's readiness to mix US commercial interests with its self-appointed role as global protector.

When I was in my 20s, I wanted to go after dramatic roles, and I didn't have a tremendous amount of success with that.

In 2009, I didn't like that Yamaha signed such a young and competitive teammate [Jorge Lorenzo]. But now everything is different. We are more mature. Everyone knows his role and position. Things are clear.

To understand my feelings — and my conception of the role of Secretary General — the nature of my religious and cultural background must first be understood. I should therefore like to outline not only my beliefs but also my conception of human institutions and of the human situation itself.

We surround ourselves with what is better or see other people as role models. You go, "If they can do this, so can I." That starts to trigger people, as well.

I'm very authentic, I think, and what I mean by that is whatever roles that I do take on, I'm really passionate about it.

We're in an illusion about what our role is in world politics and foreign affairs, and our policies are killing and destroying and doing a lot of things that we are not aware of.

The Voice has always been an alternative paper. They have always understood that that was part of their role.

It's still not easy to find roles that offer more complex images of women.

All the perks, all the benefits and advantages you may get for the rank or position you hold, they aren’t meant for you. They are meant for the role you fill. And when you leave your role, which eventually you will, they will give the ceramic cup to the person who replaces you. Because you only ever deserved a Styrofoam cup.