Roles Quotes - Page 35

Until Genevieve I had tended towards the more dramatic type of role

I would like to be as fit as I've always been. I've been blessed with good health, I've been blessed with stamina. Particularly for those great classical roles, you need an Olympian stamina. I, fortunately, have that.

I hate to admit it, but you can't do a role unless it's somewhere in your psyche. People don't realize how vast the subconscious is. It's like infinity.

If it's a role like this one, an actual live person, a legend, there's lots of material laid out.

If anything remains more or less unchanged, it will be the role of women.

We need to have a bigger and more significant role for national parliaments. There is not, in my view, a single European demos.

I have been doing this since I was nine years old. So whatever the role is, I am going to do the best I can do. The only thing I am concerned with is stepping on the stage in front of that camera and giving the best performance I know I can give, day in and day out as an actor.

Few things are as encouraging as the realization that things can be different and that we have a role in making them so.

What you can imagine depends on what you know. Philosophers who know only philosophy consign themselves to a janitorial role in the great enterprises of exploration that are illuminating the mysteries of our lives.

I don't see money or a particular status as an actor as a goal, but I want to do the best work I can in as interesting a range of roles as I can.

The role of genius is not to complicate the simple, but to simplify the complicated.

Well, my favorite roles so far are Lucas and Lost Boys.

Role models are fine. Roll models are better. Anyone who can do a forward roll is pretty awesome in my book.

I'm not the kind of actor who goes into exhaustive research for each role.

In recent times it just seems that women have been relegated to either romantic roles or fluff pieces. So the appeal, for me, is to make a picture about a real woman.

There's a whole language out there, and one's role as a writer is to stumble around in it.

The proper role of humanists is not to bring 'human values' to the attention of technicians otherwise engaged in a purely instrumental approach to their calling, but to demand the restoration of the practical or moral element in callings that have degenerated into techniques.

I'm no role model; all I want to show is love.

We've always had a dual role in the region - friend of Israel, and honest broker. We've given up the honest broker role completely.

I don't get offered many dramatic roles. As soon as my face pops up in a movie, everyone knows I'm the funny guy.

The role of business is to provide products and services that make peoples lives better - while using fewer resources - and to act lawfully and with integrity.

People who have committed to a service/advocacy role will tell you that some of the sublimest pleasure they have ever experienced comes in the context of that work. You get way more than you give.

I'm not a role model.

I don't ever get the great looking lawyer roles because I've got a thick neck from playing football.

The Epicureans denied that the gods had created the world and also denied that they played any role in it.