Roles Quotes - Page 45

One time in the late '50s, when Peter Finch, Laurence Harvey, and I were all offered the same movie role - the assumption being that we weren't friends - we marched up to producer Dino De Laurentiis's door and declared in unison, 'We don't think we're suitable for the part.'

I know I'm responsible for not having got the kind of roles that I'd have liked to.

The point is some people think they have a leading role when, really, they're just supporting cast.

I'm like John Wayne. I only play good guys. Describing his cameo role on a TV series.

Do you dislike your role in the story, your place in the shadow? What complaints do you have that the hobbits could not have heaved at Tolkien? You have been born into a narrative, you have been given freedom. Act, and act well until you reach your final scene.

The State certainly played a decisive role. I also believe that it may have stemmed from the rivalry itself. Grow or die, devour or die. That's the one problem that I have to wrestle with. I have to wrestle with whether or not rivalry in the free market does not ultimately lead to concentration, corporatism, and finally totalitarianism.

I have no decision-making role at all in my job description. I would have liked an explanation as to why I was moved from first base coach to the ambassadorship, but none was ever given.

If I don't believe in a role, I can't pull it off.

if i dont want to be known, i cannot be known.the best actor can divide role from self.the best liar can divide truth from falsity.

I'm good with all my roles, I've never had a bad role.

I love acting it's apart of me and I try to put a little bit of myself in each of my roles.

I try to avoid typecasting by doing different roles.

That's my way in the very beginning - how to enter it [a role]. Very quickly in the process, I don't think about voice being separate from the way you hold your head or the way you sit or the way you put on lipstick. It's all a piece of a person, and it's all driven by conviction.

Margaret Thatcher was a pioneer, willingly or unwillingly, for the role of women in politics.

No one spiritual path is better than another, although one may accept the universe's role in life more than another.

You have to listen to what someone is doing and help them get to where they want to go, musically speaking. I play a supporting role if someone else is soloing, and a guitarist will do the same for me while I am soloing.

I accept a role only if it's something I really, really like

It's so rare, especially as a younger actor, to find a role where it's not just one-dimensional and it's not just a stock leading man.

Every actor is riddled with insecurity, of course. But weirdly, I don't really find that I'd be daunted with taking on roles or anything.

There's a misperception about actors that we actually choose the roles we end up doing - it's more that we're chosen for them.

Squeezing yourself to ooze out the last ounce of sex allure is terribly hard. I'd like to do roles like Julie in Bury the Dead, Gretchen in Faust and Teresa in Cradle Song.

Faith greatly shaped America's role in the world. We are a country that embodies the Bible verse from Luke chapter 12, verse 48 "From everyone who has been given much, much will be demanded."

I always did TV commercials and made great money to put myself through school. That became guest starring roles on TV shows.

I kind of see clothes a bit like role-playing, depending what mood I'm in.

I longed to break out of the system and do different roles.