Perhaps I have managed some sort of longevity because I haven't won the lead roles.
Anybody can be a role model, anybody can.
What happens is things come to you - director, script - and if you respond to it, it's because it's tapping into some part of what's inside you, and different roles tap into different parts.
I like a lot of Tom Cruise's roles, he's this action hero.
Somebody asked me what do you regret. I said, well I was offered the role of Maverick in 'Top Gun' and I turned it down.
It's much easier to have something that's absolutely definite and has a definite identity, rather than a really generic role.
Usually I play the bad guy role, a terrorist or someone.
The distinctions between advertising and marketing are blurring, requiring new roles and new forms of consumer-centric marketing.
You want the actors to disappear into roles and stay under the radar, and that gets harder when someone is known for their actual personality, or who they seem to be.
Playing roles that are intense and damaged has always come more easily to me than doing comedies or lighter stuff - that would be taking a huge risk for me.
I cherish the accomplishments of Margaret Thatcher and will always count her as one of my role models.
I'm aware of people's association with me and fashion and I certainly take that role on for some occasions, but it doesn't dominate my thoughts all the time.
In Anger Management,' he said,'we had to do all this role-playing stuff. You know, to get used to handling things in a less volatile way.' 'You role-played,' I said, trying to picture this. 'I had to. It was court-ordered.
The more comedic roles come easier to me though because I see myself as a silly, easy-going person.
I think the roles in television are better for women right now. At this point, I don't want to continue doing the same things I've been doing in film because it's very limited.
I don't think it's the court's perceived role to do some explaining of a political nature.
My quest to find a great role for myself started long before this film [ "Our Brand Is Crisis"]came around.
There weren't roles for females in comedies for a really long time.
I made straight A's and never got into any trouble, and I still impose those standards on myself. So writing is my chance to escape and become the sleaziest, scummiest role.
Quite obviously power will continue to play a central role in global politics as it always does. But usually there is something else.
Many of the most difficult questions concerning the role of ethnic minorities centers on language.
[The Man] was a case where it was a funny role teamed up with another actor. It's a great teaming. And the role was a bigger role. It wasn't so much that it was a co-starring role. This is not a new direction. I'm not saying, 'No. I'm only now co-starring.' It just happens it's a co-starring role.
I go by the role pretty much. And I think the only genre I haven't gotten to do but I'd love to is a western, but no one has ever asked me to do that. Unfortunately they are very few and far between these days, but that is one type of film I'd love to do.
In all seriousness, I'm flattered and humbled to have been asked to reprise my role as Luke in the 'Veronica Mars' movie.
You can look at founding father Alexander Hamilton nevertheless assuring - assuring - the countrymen in Federalist 78 that the role of the federal courts under the proposed Constitution would be limited.
