Roles Quotes - Page 75

All the government decisions remain and won't be altered until I get in the role and have had a chance to discuss them with my colleagues.

One of the series of decisions that the great screenwriter John McNamara made was about who to depict. [Ronald] Reagan had a role in HUAC, he was a friendly witness, but never went over-the-top about it.

It's always challenging to go into a role.

Because it may seem like a small role now, but it matters. In the end, everything matters.

We actors always say how difficult and physically demanding a role was. But give me a break, it's only a movie.

Sales management is the most critical - and underappreciated - role in the sales force. Companies struggle to find something powerful to train sales managers on.

I had a good theater career for years. I played Hamlet when I was 22, and I've played some really great roles.

I can't complain about the roles that have come my way.

Today Charles Darwin is best known for establishing the fact of evolution and for recognizing the major role of natural selection in driving it.

I am really looking forward to being a role model for girls.

That's what we're all doing: paving the way, finding the roles that have the complication instead of the one that's always got it together or the dedicated housewife or the wild one who smokes cigarettes and sleeps with anybody.

I'd like to create a role on Broadway. That would really heighten my senses.

Hamlet' is obviously a role a lot of actors want to portray or be involved with in some way and that I'd like to be involved in.

I feel responsible for certain fans, but I've never said I'm a role model.

The collaborator has to be someone who understands that his role is to help you articulate what you want, but at the same time is not just going to be mechanically obeying, but adding to, supplementing, and coming up with stuff.

Being large and muscular, you are not taken very seriously as an actor. When bigger roles come up and the actor needs to be muscular they tend to cast a regular sized actor and get him to hit the weight program as opposed to hiring an actor who's already muscular and developed in that area.

Well, I always hope that I'm a role model.

Leadership in its best sense has never been about the pre-determined role cast on some to lead others.

Usually being a young actor, you've got to go through certain levels of hierarchy, going through bit parts and extra roles and then kind of progressing up the food chain and having the size of your roles grow in that sense.

NATO has been supporting Haj pilgrimage for those Afghans who wish to go to Saudi Arabia. The Alliance has played a role in helping transport concerning their security as they leave and come back to Afghanistan.

A greater international role is important to lift some of the burden from the shoulders of the United States.

Some actors pride themselves on disappearing into a role. I'm into the game because I like experiencing and exploring themes, so I put a lot of myself into the person.

The dream is to originate a role in a show on Broadway. That's the ultimate goal.

I haven't really had a major role in film for about 12 years. But I never stopped working in the theater. I do stuff back to back.

Being a theater actor, I've done a lot of plays where I've seen someone else play the same role in another production. Especially with the classics: Shakespeare, Tennessee Williams.