Roles Quotes - Page 72

My dream role is to play in a story of how the Joker became the Joker, and I would play the young Heath Ledger.

We're all clichés, all following scripts that have been written and played out long before we landed the role.

I know at some point I would like to take on more dramatic roles.

There have been many times when I've auditioned and I've actually won a different role in the same film.

I'm too busy looking for the next role to do. I think about how to continue, to survive in the same vein. I like my career and my life as it is.

Marriage is a relationship between a man and a woman. I don't think it is the role of the state to define what marriage is.

Welcome to The Daily Show, I'm John Oliver. Jon Stewart is still not here. He is currently living out a live-action Lord of the Rings role-playing experience deep in the New Zealand wilderness.

A lot of the times, roles are chosen for us.

Americans have gotten to know Sarah Palin. They know that she's a role model to women and other - and reformers all over America. She's a reformer.

I am all in favor of pay equity for women, but this kind of legislation, as is typical of what's being proposed by my friends on the other side of the aisle, opens us up to lawsuits for all kinds of problems.

I don't think it's the role of the prime minister to court the press.

My role is to find strategic insights as to where design can have the most business impact. A designer can bring a viewpoint of not just aesthetics, but economics and usage.

In the national security establishment, it is somewhat frowned upon for people to take extremely harsh partisan roles in campaigns.

For me and for I'm sure any actor, each role is a different challenge to prepare for in a different way.

The role of a leader is to serve his people. We absolutely must first serve the people who we want to lead. They must be able to rely on the leader as much as we hope to rely on them.

My role as CEO is to protect the company AND nurture it to grow.

Instead of asking, 'What should a woman do—what is her role?' it would be far more helpful to ask, 'What is a woman—what is her design?' and, 'Why did God place Woman in our midst?

We overthrew the feudal system in the 1600s, and the theocracy in the 1700s. But currently, corporations play similar roles in many of our lives, either directly or indirectly.

In everything I do, I find some of myself, or a lot of myself, and put it into the role.

There's still a bit of a problem, in that so many leading English roles are taken by American or French actresses.

I turned down as many roles that I thought were beyond my abilities as I did ones I thought weren't good enough.

My father wasn't the best role model to me.

The writer creates the role on the page and then the actor takes it and makes it their own.

Bo Derek turned down the role of Helen Keller because she couldn't remember the lines.

I just try and do the best with every role I get to do. Hopefully the experience in itself is a good experience and people will want to work with me.