Roles Quotes - Page 77

Getting the role like this is such awonderful opportunity... I remember looking in the mirror and going 'I'm superman'.

The role of the artist, like that of the scholar, consists of seizing current truths often repeated to him, but which will take on new meaning for him and which he will make his own when he has grasped their deepest significance.

I'm not a republican any more. Not so voraciously anyway - I'm not in favour of the concept of monarchy, but I do see the good in it if there's a good person in the role.

The role of women has always been undervalued in the spy world, always undermined in terms of recognition. Unfairly so. It's a world that needs women.

I don't get to play the same role over and over in different movies. The roles that I get to play are quite varied, which is great.

When women get great roles in life, they start to get great roles in films and TV. Look at Janet Reno, Madeleine Albright, and Mrs. Thatcher. Because those images are coming at us in life, they are reflected in acting.

In terms of having views and being prepared to express them, yes, I think New Zealand's had a leadership role in a lot of things.

I’ve even written a role for Dolly Parton to play the town mayor!

I don't really prepare for roles. I just kind of do them!

I had to get used to the theater atmosphere because I haven't had a role on Broadway since Aida. It was a different process from day one because I was learning my parts by myself.

There are times when I don't take roles because I don't want to be perceived a certain way.

I've also just finished filming the role of Robert Brown in 'Just William,' which is due to transmit on BBC One at Christmas.

I'd like to find great roles close to home and work on great projects while staying near my family. My family's the most important thing to me right now.

I had no expectation of the level of adulation that would come my way. I just wanted to make a living with a regular role in a television series.

The casting is very simple actually, but it is very important. You choose the best actor for the role, and you test them and you test them, and you bring them back, and you have to make sure the actors fit the roles.

I'm vain enough to want do a movie again, but right now more roles are the last thing on my list.

If it's a great role or a great film, then you're happy to be a part of it.

Even though I've done a lot it also feels like I haven't done a lot. I've sort of popped in for supporting roles in things, and that's been really delightful.

When I read something, I want to be surprised. So I read something and go, "Wow, I never, ever would have thought of playing this kind of role. This is exciting me, let's go do this."

I don't understand the actor that chooses to play the same role in everything all the time.

I don't want to make a habit of just playing small roles, because I really enjoy the process of being part of a film and staying on it for the length of time that everybody else is as well.

'Branding' has taken on too much of a role as a specialized craft performed by voodoo artists.

I merely consider myself a father, and one role of a father is to provide financial resources for his family.

The military preferred - invariably - those who could be readily defined, assigned roles, understood, and controlled.

I had done a lot of plays, particularly at my own theater in LA, and it was the first time in my theatrical life where I didn't feel that my role was also to keep everybody else working hard.