Roles Quotes - Page 78

Jon Hamm was the first I thought of for the other role in [Keeping Up with the Joneses], I recently worked with him on Clear History, an HBO improv movie that we had done together.

I didnt want to be 50 or 60 and auditioning for a three-line role.

Sometimes you have to do a role that might not be the most interesting, but it will set you up for doing roles that you want to do.

The "can do" logic, by its own nature, does not accept limits. And an empire does not have a graceful way to evolve out of this role. History demonstrates this time and again.

As an actor, you are at the mercy of others for what role you can be seen for and then what you will be cast in.

I'm an actor who loves to get physical so any role that allows me to access that is glorious.​

The role of metaphysics in relation to other disciplines, whether philosophical or not and including the natural sciences, is thus a foundational role. Lack of clarity in the concepts of metaphysics implies lack of clarity in other disciplines - both theoretical and practical disciplines - employing those concepts or employing concepts that depend on those of metaphysics.

I never had a great role in a great film.

When the gender role starts to descend, boys get into the masculine box.

They're called 'facts', and my role is to amplify those, not cheerlead. And I don't care at all what you think of my motives.

Good roles are hard to find no matter what age.

Having been Scully for such a long time, I have to prove myself in other roles.

Only once have I taken on a role where I felt that I didn't quite understand her, but I said yes anyway. I don't think I'll ever do that again.

If I can look at each character that I am given and create them in a different way from the last role, I'm happy.

The Phantom, as well as being backed up by that music, it just so was a role that I identified with so powerfully. From the first second that I walked on to perform.

The Federal role in overcoming barriers to needed health care should emphasize health care financing programs-such as Medicare and Medicaid.

[A] re-elected McConnell, with a Republican majority, would, he says, emulate his model of majority leadership - the 16 years under a Democrat, Montana'€™s Mike Mansfield. He, like McConnell, had a low emotional metabolism but a subtle sense of the Senate's singular role in the nation's constitutional equilibrium.

It's not the governor’s role to decide who goes to heaven. That’s God’s role.

My administration is committed to a leadership role on the issue of climate change.

I'm comfortable moving into the role of elder person.

Bin Laden says his own role is to tell Muslims, quote, 'what is good for them and what is not.'

Gilles Deleuze believed that every society needed a madman so we could feel better about ourselves. I do my best to fill that role.

I have been collecting pictures of airport carpets since the early 2000s because I am fascinated by their role as the world's largest interior visual design medium.

The crucial role of the rich in a capitalist economy is... to invest; to provide unencumbered and unbureaucratized cash.

I’m so revolted by writers taking themselves seriously that, as a kind of protest, I’ve deprioritized the role of writing in my life. I do it when I’ve not got anything better to do – and even then I often do nothing instead.