Roles Quotes - Page 26

You bring yourself to every role, it doesn't matter who it is, it doesn't matter if it's a mass murderer, you can bring something to it.

There are not many roles where women are really active.

So, to prepare for the role, I had to take music lessons, talk to wives who had husbands overseas, and carefully study the reactions and mannerisms of a friend who was expecting.

We are social animals and we have a hierarachical and unequal society. It is a class society, and the class system creates and perpetuates the social role of consumption. We display our class membership and solidify our class positioning in large part through money, through what we have. Consumption is a way of verifying what you have and earn.

The whole point of being an actor is to get satisfaction out of a role -- unless you're just vain about celebrity. You're always looking for the one thing that will surprise you.

Every role you do is kind of a side of yourself. That's why they give you the part.

We don't know why we are here and . . . our role in the universe, and the thought of an infinite universe. It's something the human mind can't really grasp. [And] it's statistically impossible that there's not life on other planets.

It is not the role of government to use the taxation and welfare system as a tool to level the playing field.

And journalism itself has changed. News organizations and some journalists have transformed from their traditional role as watchdogs of power into institutions of power themselves with an ability, indeed, a susceptibility, to abuse that power.

There is nothing I love more than my role as a mom.

I never lost an argument and my parents assumed I would be a lawyer. They cast me in that role.

I was shocked into the realization that I myself had played an unwitting role as a movie star and sex symbol in perpetrating the stereotypes that affected women all over the world.

Savings will not make you rich. Only canny investments do that. The role of savings is to keep you from becoming poor.

The number of Latino roles is very limited, and it's unfortunate there isn't more color-blind casting.

I was never any good in the school theatrical productions. I always got a role like the March Hare.

To change bad habits, we must study the habits of successful role models.

But I don't really see myself as a role model. I'm not a dictator, or someone who wants to be adored!

I couldn't imagine what Fox thought they were doing, contemplating such a jagged protagonist for a prime-time drama. I only knew that I wanted the role very much.

The First Lady role is really difficult. It has no job description... You have to create it for yourself.

They (the Rothschilds) have never dreamed of being ashamed of their wealth nor of disguising their way of life, no more than they have ever failed to assume their roles and responsibilities as Jews.

Because Social Security is specifically designed to boost the retirement income of low earners with a progressive benefit formula, the program has played an enormous and necessary role in keeping Latinas out of poverty.

God is playing a role in all religions and that Christians are more united than they sometimes think.

I have a role now that I think becomes me. I am a grandmother.

One of the most original and most important ideas advanced by Hayek is the role of the 'division of knowledge' in economic society.

Scholars who become politicians are usually assigned the comic role of having to be the good conscience of state policy.