Roles Quotes - Page 47

There is something good about the character of Gomez. I wouldn't trade the association with him for anything or any role that I might have missed.

One role of government is to go where venture capital won't.

I've rarely played glamorous roles. I don't mind looking plain on camera.

I think you always have to use certain parts of yourself in any role.

I'm used to working really hard to get a role. I was always auditioning and talking my way into roles.

I played a role. That is what actors do. But I played it too well. I went too far. And by the time I wanted to stop, to take a bow and leave the stage, it was too late.

I've only had one dramatic role in my entire career and when I did it, I was in heaven and I thought, 'Oh my god, I'm going to get more of these.'

When I think of all the years in my 30s when I starved myself... but when I got the role of Lois, I stopped thinking about my looks and was just myself.

My role relationship to the event will continue to mutate. My relationship to my mother will continue to change as I revise my judgments of her depending on what I learn about her. It goes on. But I feel no less obsessive about my work and no less passionately committed to the life I have now, but I feel poised inside. Which is a good thing to feel at 48.

The world tends to trap you in the role you play and it is always extremely hard to maintain a watchful, mocking distance between oneself as one appears to be and oneself as one actually is.

If I've inadvertently become some sort of role model for failed comedians, then it's really backfired very badly on me.

Gunn, like me, has a James Bond obsession. He would love to be James Bond, and it's a great role that I would love to be, someday.

I don't want to do romantic roles where I have to lip sync to a song. A role that explores romance on a new level would suit me.

I am lucky that the Western world chooses me to play roles in their movies an television, whatever language it may be.

Of course men play roles, but women play roles too, blanker ones. They have, in the play of life, fewer good lines.

My dream roles since I was very young were Tony in West Side Story and Pippin. But, now I leave that for the youngsters.

But no, I don't think I'm particularly drawn to the period roles or the medieval roles.

In reality, for me every role is completely different.

Goodness that comes out of hiding and assumes a public role is no longer good, but corrupt in its own terms and will carry its own corruption wherever it goes.

For me, after emotionally intense roles, I'd need to take a step back because then there's the promoting of the film which is another job in itself.

I have got one of those faces that change every day: you can dress me up, make me look vampy and then make me look 12 years old. But don't all women do this thing? We all take on these roles.

Before then, Britain was pessimistic and the role of government was largely managing Britain in decline.

The first priority of any serious program against poverty is to strengthen the male role in poor families.

Never underestimate the role pretension plays when it comes to creating euphemistic language.

Family and the natural surroundings played a big role in shaping my values.