Roles Quotes - Page 28

Despite the enormous role that local government plays in our daily lives, the constitution makes not one mention of it.

I had never even thought I'd be an actress - I was supposed to be a lawyer. But the motivation is the same: when you act, you defend a role; you have to be convincing. It's the same career.

The eye is not open when it is limited to the passive role of a mirror... if it has only the capacity to reflect.

For the Archivist, this role is a result of his obligation to preserve and assure timely and maximum access to our governmental records in the evolving historic saga of the American people.

I love taking on roles that I haven't yet done in my career.

I have five young children, and I take being a role model very seriously.

I just want to keep the diversity and the options open. In terms of what I'm looking for, I'd like to do a lead action role.

The role of the artist is to be the witness of life, timbuktu.

Let's start creating better roles that accurately depict people we know so closely.

I would love to do Evita or Elphaba in Wicked. But I am more excited to originate a role on Broadway.

One of the interesting things is, the most gifted people, the biggest people, have no problem taking small roles.

I was horrible at science and math. I couldn't pass a test to save my life! I'm surprised that it didn't take me until I was 20 to graduate. That's why my role is so cool - Grissom is the complete opposite of me.

You don't look at it as the size of the role. Quantity is not the point. You can be as thorough in 30 seconds as you can in three hours.

Certain roles are more challenging than others, but I haven't come across one yet that I can't tackle.

This role is more visible, and I grew up without a lot of that sort of modeling so I'm relieved and proud to have done this film.

You cannot win an Emmy for roles that are simply not there.

For most of my career, I've played roles that were written for other actresses.

Thank goodness I started getting movie roles and then television shows came along. So I was very fortunate to be able to do all three and I like all of them.

There are only three reasons to do a movie: the cast, the director, the role. Like I say, you live in a minute of screen time, but to prepare for the minute takes much more than a day. You'd better be excited about what those moments are, even if they're the hardest moments. Or the smallest.

It is the role of the poet to look at what is happening in the world and to know that quite other things are happening.

Boyhood proves that there's still good roles for women over 40, as long as you get hired when you're under 40.

Liebig himself seems to have occupied the role of a gate, or sorting-demon, such as his younger contemporary Clerk Maxwell once proposed, helping to concentrate energy into one favored room of the Creation at the expense of everything else.

But a writer's contribution is literary and a film is not literary. When you take that stuff off the page, and cast the people who are going to fit into those roles, that's what being a director is.

My role on television is one of helping people reexamine the assumptions that they hold. I regard Dr. King. You would never hear me get up and speak without in some way, shape or form, referencing, Dr. King.

I knew Jimmy Dean. He tested for 'Battle Cry'. Paul Newman tested for 'Battle Cry'. I did nine tests to finally get that role.