Roles Quotes - Page 24

As a country and as a world, we are not comfortable with women in leadership roles. We call little girls bossy.

I played the best role I've ever seen on TV or film in the last five years. It was hugely gratifying.

It has nothing to do with the emotional demands of a role; I've done comedies that are as draining to me as any drama.

Earn by your efficiency and enthusiasm, The right to play higher and higher roles ,That is the meaning and purpose of life.

I appreciate the written word and spoken word more, but Atonement sort of established so much of me. It was a character that didn't really speak, and I found that a lot of the roles I was gravitating toward after that were kind of nonverbal.

I literally was saved by a role, from becoming a cab driver. I never did have to wait tables, though, so looking back I guess I had it pretty soft.

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 before and is hungry to do it. They're testing themselves every day. They want to get out of their trailer and get to work.

I think, certainly in the more civilized societies, women's roles are growing in power all of the time.

We must accept all the implications of our human inheritance, one of the most important of which is the small scope of biologically transmitted behavior, and the enormous role of the cultural process of the transmission of tradition.

The Constitution limits the role of government. The Constitution enumerates the freedoms of the people and enforces those freedoms against government, making sure government cannot encroach.

And government's only role is to secure our rights for us.

My role isn't to be politically smart. My role is to do what's right under the constitution. And if that's politically unpopular, so be it.

Everyone assumes America must play the leading role in crafting some settlement or compromise between the Israelis and the Palestinians. But Jefferson, Madison, and Washington explicitly warned against involving ourselves in foreign conflicts.

I'm attracted to roles where I don't have to wear makeup.

I have a high regard for Native languages and the pivotal role they have played in our nation's history

I don't really have preferred roles except those with some complexity.

It still hasn't sunk in that I'm going to be in Coronation Street. Everything about the role is brilliant and I'm working with some great people.

It is to TV that I owe my freedom from bondage of the Latin lover roles. Television came along and gave me parts to chew on. It gave me wings as an actor.

Canada has always been a strong supporter of Chinas accession to the WTO... We look forward to playing a constructive role in helping complete Chinas accession.

I'm always glad to be offered roles, but wouldn't take any role as this could do you more harm than good, but I've been at what they call 'on the top' as far as being known for twenty years.

If there is an exotic woman it's always a terrorist role.

The revolutionary's role is to liberate, and to be liberated, with the people--not to win them over.

Absent scandal, a federal judge can serve for decades on the bench, underscoring the importance of appointing judges who have a proper understanding of their constitutional role.

As the captain, I was going to be having the dominant role in most of the episodes, and that was appealing. I wasn't interested in coming to Hollywood to sit around.

My role is to think about tennis and to help Serena Williams be the best she can be and do what she wants to achieve.