Roles Quotes - Page 44

With America's role in the world, we have the ability to help protect the freedom of religion around the globe.

In varying degrees, the authority of the dharma was replaced by the authority of the guru, who came, in some traditions, to assume the role of the Buddha himself.

I started with commercials - for shampoo, pancakes, insurance, Volvo. I did a Lux soap commercial with Sarah Jessica Parker. And I got a role in an indie film called Satellite that did well in festivals.

I love the role of Ripley.

I had two roles for which I compromised.

I never really said I want to be a role model. But then when it happened I was so down for it.

I think that I've still not been successful at playing the role of the retired actor, and I'd like to work on that.

When I take a role I wonder how I can use it to find out who I really am. I don't think I'm so rare a person.

If someone has already done a role I'm about to do, I won't watch the original until after I'm finished playing the role.

Eventually I booked a 2-line role on a show called 'JAG' and slowly the parts got bigger and better. I'm very thankful that I had to appreciate how difficult the business is before I had any kind of success.

Obviously the first roles that you're proud of are the ones that everybody else liked too.

My studies are important to me. I made the honor role just recently, with 2 A's and 2 B's.

In a lot of roles, strong women feel like they need to apologize. But men don't need to apologize for being ruthless and women somehow do?

There's a certain comfort in being in supporting roles because it's not all on you.

I can't do victim roles - it makes me sick.

When you use the same actors a lot, you get to know them and you realize that one movie can't explore all the talent that they have. You really have to give them several different kinds of roles, in completely different movies, to push them and to push yourself.

I do a happy dance even when I get a guest-star role.

The most glaring deficiency in traditional economic models is that they completely ignore the role of context in evaluation.

It was a role [Dean Sanderson] I hadn't seen before, and yet it was very accessible and relatable at the same time. I read scripts that have one or the other, but I rarely read scripts that have both. And it was laugh-out-loud funny.

To love without role, without power plays, is revolution.

There are so many films now where you know the story is a supporting role to the visual effects.

My quarrel is not with the legitimate role of government but with the unlimited role of government.

One's concentration as a performer must remain centered on the action of which one is a part. For it is in truth only one's own concentration on the imagined reality of the role that can force the audience's attention to that same place.

I'm interested in everything about what it means to be a human being, so every role is an excuse to delve into a different way of life, a different socio-economic background, and a different tragic or comedic circumstance.

The role of the federal government should be neutral toward culture just as it is toward religion.