Roles famous quotes

The function of the press in society is to inform, but its role in society is to make money.
-- A. J. Liebling

#Anger #Society #Roles

I love playing odd roles.
-- Aaron Paul

#Roles #Odd

Helen Mirren and Meryl Streep can play with the boys but there just aren't that many tour-de-force roles out there for women,
-- Aaron Sorkin

#Boys #Play #Roles

When you're brown and Indian, you get offered a lot of doctor roles.
-- Aasif Mandvi

#Doctors #Roles #Brown

Educationists should build the capacities of the spirit of inquiry, creativity, entrepreneurial and moral leadership among students and become their role model.
-- Abdul Kalam

#Creativity #Role Models #Roles

We must not overlook the role that extremists play. They are the gadflies that keep society from being too complacent.
-- Abraham Flexner

#Play #Liberty #Roles

I can't imagine that I would have been cast in the role, without Jamie Lee giving me a thumbs up.
-- Adam Arkin

#Giving #Roles #Thumbs

I just want to keep the diversity and the options open. In terms of what I'm looking for, I'd like to do a lead action role.
-- Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje

#Diversity #Roles #Want

I am starting to realize that a lot of guys look up to me, ... Older guys, and even younger guys, are asking me questions and [they] ask me about how to handle situations. Im young, but that leadership role has been on me so I need to live up to it.
-- Adrian Peterson

#Guy #Needs #Roles

The hardest thing as an actor is that you work really hard constantly for these roles, and you invest so much in it. And when they don't come to fruition and nobody sees them, there's a part of you that dies a little bit. It's like, 'Ah! But I worked so hard!' But that's the business.
-- Adrianne Palicki

#Roles #Fruition #Actors

But when I think of superchicks, I think of the roles, not the variety.
-- Adrienne Barbeau

#Thinking #Roles #Variety

Experience shows that what great role pratice and experience play in education; pratice, the prolonged exercice lead to habit: exemple suggests imitation. Habit can become a second nature, but, wrongly directed (or guided), it may also heighten (or intensify) unfortunate tendencies and be an obstacle to progress.
-- African Spir

#Play #Progress #Roles

I get to do interesting roles and make a living.
-- Aidan Quinn

#Interesting #Roles

Just to be working again as an actress and possibly doing TV would just be great. It's not about how big the role is.
-- Aileen Quinn

#Roles #Actresses #Tvs

I know for a fact that if there's a role which I am suited for, I'll be signed on. I'll never go begging.
-- Aishwarya Rai Bachchan

#Roles #Facts #Begging

The role of the artist is to not look away.
-- Akira Kurosawa

#Artist #Roles #Looks

Civil disobedience has an honourable history, and when the urgency and moral clarity cross a certain threshold, then I think that civil disobedience is quite understandable, and it has a role to play.
-- Al Gore

#Thinking #Play #Roles

There are a lot of roles in Shakespeare, basically. If I feel that the script is a movie, I would be interested in doing any role of Shakespeare's.
-- Al Pacino

#Would Be #Roles #Scripts

I am convinced that your Mayor must take the leadership role in education too.
-- Alan Autry

#Roles #Mayors

I'm quite a curious person. I don't mind being the one who doesn't know things, a role I often play in QI.
-- Alan Davies

#Play #Mind #Roles

I had only that one picture, Hitler, the Beast of Berlin, in which I had a part big enough to impress anyone. I tried for better roles over and over again
-- Alan Ladd

#Roles #Berlin #Beast

When I get a role, I try to delve as deeply as possible into the character.
-- Alanna Ubach

#Character #Trying #Roles

I have five young children, and I take being a role model very seriously.
-- Albert Pujols

#Children #Role Models #Roles

It's time to admit that public education operates like a planned economy, a bureaucratic system in which everybody's role is spelled out in advance and there are few incentives for innovation and productivity. It's no surprise that our school system doesn't improve: It more resembles the communist economy than our own market economy.
-- Albert Shanker

#School #Innovation #Roles

I wish I could play the lead role in one movie, one great movie.
-- Alec Baldwin

#Play #Wish #Roles

Essentially, I'm a small-part actor who's been lucky enough to play leading roles for most of his life.
-- Alec Guinness

#Play #Lucky #Roles

Leadership is a role you have to earn in order to be effective.
-- Alex Rodriguez

#Order #Roles

I'm not preaching about things you should do, I'm not political or anything. I'm probably not the best role model.
-- Alexa Chung

#Role Models #Political #Roles

I love taking on roles that I haven't yet done in my career.
-- Alexa Vega

#Careers #Roles #Done

This socialism will develop in all its phases until it reaches its own extremes and absurdities. Then once again a cry of denial will break from the titanic chest of the revolutionary minority and again a mortal struggle will begin, in which socialism will play the role of contemporary conservatism and will be overwhelmed in the subsequent revolution, as yet unknown to us.
-- Alexander Herzen

#Struggle #Play #Roles

There's enough of a willingness in the West to do sympathetic movies about Arab roles.
-- Alexander Siddig

#Roles #West #Enough

I think if you're good and you can persuade people you're going to be able to do that role and ultimately the audience buys it, then it doesn't matter whether you were really a chimpanzee in disguise! You've done it.
-- Alexander Siddig

#Thinking #People #Roles

After 9/11 and the impending actors' strike of a few years ago, roles dried up for everyone.
-- Alfre Woodard

#Years #Roles #Actors

If anything, as a general rule, the cheaper the movie the more creative the experience, generally speaking. Its not to denigrate expensive movies. I dont want to seem biting the hands that feed me, but with big movies, especially with a lot of effects, the role of the actor is somewhat diminished.
-- Alfred Molina

#Hands #Creative #Roles

It is time to reinvigorate the UN General Assembly so that it can exercise a more decisive role in peace-making and peace-keeping, consistent with the will of the international community.
-- Alfred-Maurice de Zayas

#Exercise #Community #Roles

The primary role of the music industry is to have artists be heard above the rest. It's a big needle in a haystack problem. The Internet has the service and tools to find the needle in a haystack.
-- Ali Partovi

#Artist #Roles #Tools

To be an actor in the society in Israel, you have to be ten times better than the Israeli Jews. To get the roles in mainstream theater or to get any role, not typecast as an Arab. And also if you are ten times better, not all the time you get the opportunity.
-- Ali Suliman

#Opportunity #Israel #Roles

For the Archivist, this role is a result of his obligation to preserve and assure timely and maximum access to our governmental records in the evolving historic saga of the American people.
-- Allen Weinstein

#People #Roles #Records

Being a role model is a privilege.
-- Allyson Felix

#Role Models #Roles #Privilege

Fortunately, historians are now beginning to recognise the historic role of Islam as a liberating force for peoples oppressed by the burdens of unjust social systems.
-- Aly Khan

#Islam #Roles #Unjust

As an actor, my main focus is finding good writing and attacking a good role.
-- Amanda Peet

#Writing #Focus #Roles

There aren't many roles that are interesting if you're a 40-year-old woman, unless you're Julia Roberts or Cate Blanchett.
-- Amanda Peet

#Years #Interesting #Roles

I've auditioned for roles that involved voice, but I don't like it. I feel like, I can't do this in front of you. It seems so separate - I don't share it with a lot of people. And I'm not into public performances.
-- Amanda Seyfried

#Voice #People #Roles

Being the person I am, you know, the size I am, being a woman, being a black woman, there's not a lot of roles for us.
-- Amber Riley

#Black #Roles #Size

The artist's role is to raise the consciousness of the people. To make them understand life, the world and themselves more completely. That's how I see it. Otherwise, I don't know why you do it.
-- Amiri Baraka

#Artist #People #Roles

I single handedly revolutionised women's roles in the WWE, before me all women were eye candy.
-- Amy Dumas

#Eye #Wwe #Roles

The last couple of roles I missed out on went to Jennifer Hudson, Jessica Biel and Olivia Wilde.
-- Amy Schumer

#Couple #Roles #Olivia

I have to say that as an actor, I really look for the role. I'm not really looking to see if it's for television or film, because there are highly talented people in both mediums.
-- Amy Smart

#People #Roles #Looks

For things to have value in man's world, they are given the role of commodities. Among man's oldest and most constant commodity is woman.
-- Ana Castillo

#Men #Roles #World

It is the shortcomings of game theory (as originally formulated) which force the consideration of the role of ethics, of the dynamics of social structure, and of social structure and of individual psychology in situations of conflict.
-- Anatol Rapoport

#Games #Psychology #Roles

This year my role is clear: I am a coach, a coach to sportsmen.
-- Anatoli Boukreev

#Years #Roles #Clear

The eye is not open when it is limited to the passive role of a mirror... if it has only the capacity to reflect.
-- Andre Breton

#Eye #Mirrors #Roles

Faith has a role to play in life. It is not related to success. It is the other way round. Success is related to faith. Faith comes first.
-- Andrea Bocelli

#Play #Roles #Way

There is a sense in which the United States ambassador speaks to the United States, as well as for the United States. I have always seen my role as a thermostat rather than a thermometer. So I'm going to be actively working... for my own concerns. I have always had people advise me on what to say, but never on what not to say.
-- Andrew Young

#People #United States #Roles

Congress is furious at the Secret Service for consorting with hookers, which has traditionally been Congress's role.
-- Andy Borowitz

#Secret #Roles #Congress

I didn't have a role model when I was younger.
-- Andy Cohen

#Role Models #Roles #Models

My agent told me they were casting for the voice of Gollum. I hadnt read The Lord of the Rings, but I read the script and realized what an amazing role it was. I developed a voice for the audition tape, then met Peter Jackson and Fran Walsh at the auditions and fell in love with them both.
-- Andy Serkis

#Voice #Tape #Roles

The question is always 'What is the role of a labor movement?' How much is about collective bargaining, how much is about social change for all workers?
-- Andy Stern

#Roles #Movement #Social

Therapy? I don't need that. The roles that I choose are my therapy.
-- Angelina Jolie

#Needs #Roles #Therapy

But it is not conscious strategy to go for unconventional roles.
-- Anil Kapoor

#Roles #Unconventional #Strategy

It's the role of the artist to pursue content
-- Anish Kapoor

#Artist #Roles #Pursue

We live in a fractured world. I've always seen it as my role as an artist to attempt to make wholeness.
-- Anish Kapoor

#Artist #Roles #World

The role of an artist is to awaken the deep life urge that is already in every person.
-- Ann Mortifee

#Artist #Deep Life #Roles

It is men who face the biggest problems in the future, adjusting to their new and complicated role.
-- Anna Ford

#Men #Roles #Adjusting

I've always chosen incredibly different roles and things that are quite offbeat. That way you're not limited.
-- Anna Friel

#Different #Roles #Way

Girls are twice as likely as boys to avoid leadership roles for fear of being deemed ‘bossy’ by their peers,
-- Anna Maria Chavez

#Girl #Boys #Roles

There are always good parts. They may not pay what you want, and they may not have as many days' work as you want, they may not have the billing that you want, they may not have a lot of things, but - the content of the role itself - I find there are many roles.
-- Anne Bancroft

#Roles #May #Want

I always think I'm terrible. So it's always a relief when I find out that I wasn't. I've had roles where I realized that I was in way over my head - and that is my biggest fear.
-- Anne Hathaway

#Thinking #Relief #Roles

I had never even thought I'd be an actress - I was supposed to be a lawyer. But the motivation is the same: when you act, you defend a role; you have to be convincing. It's the same career.
-- Anne Parillaud

#Motivation #Careers #Roles

... everyone must play his role.
-- Anne Tyler

#Play #Roles

There are some roles you just don't say 'no' to. Those compass points: you get them so rarely as an actress.
-- Anne-Marie Duff

#Roles #Actresses #Compass

Any kind of conflict draws me to a role.
-- Anne-Marie Duff

#Roles #Kind #Conflict

As I get older, I want to draw on my experience to make roles better. I see that in the older women who inspire me - their experience makes them better.
-- Anne-Marie Duff

#Inspire #Roles #Want

Over my lifetime, women have demonstrated repeatedly that they can do anything that men can do, while still managing traditional women's work at the same time. But the same expansion of roles has not been available to men.
-- Anne-Marie Slaughter

#Men #Expansion #Roles

Of all the roles I've played, none has been as fulfilling as being a mother.
-- Annette Funicello

#Mother #Roles #Fulfilling

Taiwan matters because of its vital role in spreading democracy in East Asia. Taiwan matters because of its strategic importance to promote peace in the Pacific region.
-- Annette Lu

#Democracy #East #Roles

I have always wanted to do something high octane. I've wanted to tackle an action role where I play a tomboy but empower myself as a woman.
-- Annie Ilonzeh

#Play #Empowering #Roles

I have written the little work that follows . . . in the role of one who strives to raise his mind to the contemplation of God and one who seeks to understand what he believes.
-- Anselm of Canterbury

#Believe #Mind #Roles

Despite the enormous role that local government plays in our daily lives, the constitution makes not one mention of it.
-- Anthony Albanese

#Government #Play #Roles

Everybody knows when you've got a role in a Spike Lee movie, you're gonna blow up. But I happen to be the only person who's had the lead in the two Spike Lee movies nobody saw.
-- Anthony Mackie

#Blow #Two #Roles

They all matter to me, whether I'm working on a Sam Jackson film for a week or I'm the star of my own TV series - I take it all very seriously, and I have a healthy respect for the work in general, despite the role.
-- Anthony Michael Hall

#Stars #Healthy #Roles

And I had known Peter O'Toole before in London. And I'd liked him very much. And the thought of being in a picture with him was very challenging to me. And he was playing the starring role.
-- Anthony Quinn

#Challenges #Roles #London

The role of the artist is to ask questions, not answer them.
-- Anton Chekhov

#Art #Artist #Roles

I'd love to be in a period drama - that's my obsession. But being a mixed-race actress, there aren't so many roles you're right for.
-- Antonia Thomas

#Drama #Race #Roles

I dont work for production houses. I only work for good scripts and roles. If you follow my career graph, you will find that I have not given a single flop yet in my career. I am proud of it.
-- Anushka Sharma

#Careers #House #Roles

I love roles where I have to transform myself.
-- Archie Panjabi

#Roles

As an actor, it's my job to prepare myself for a role. If the character is realistic, one can't go wrong.
-- Arjun Rampal

#Jobs #Character #Roles

I'm half Jewish, but no one believes me because my looks lean a little WASP-y... It's sometimes hard for me to get the roles I'm drawn to.
-- Armie Hammer

#Believe #Roles #Looks

I think a primal role of a man in a relationship is to protect his woman.
-- Armie Hammer

#Men #Thinking #Roles

I love Cate Blanchett. She's extremely classy and has this knack for taking on roles and being very, very strong, but also embedding vulnerability. She has this relatable quality. I like the path she chose.
-- Ashley Greene

#Strong #Quality #Roles

My ideal role would be anything that allows me to play anyone the public is familiar with and to be able to show them that, but in a new light.
-- Ashley Rickards

#Play #Light #Roles

My mom is very confident and she was always a role model of mine.
-- Ashley Tisdale

#Mom #Role Models #Roles

My agent didn't want me on Disney because I'm older. But honestly, I'm not ready for older roles yet, or even the things older girls do. I am still young.
-- Ashley Tisdale

#Girl #Roles #Agents

I obviously bring all of my insecurities along with me to any role that I tackle.
-- Aubrey Plaza

#Insecurity #Roles

Robert Taylor was not only a splendid actor in a wide variety of roles but one of the most handsome men in the western world.
-- Audrey Meadows

#Men #Gdp #Roles

The greatest impediments to changes in our traditional roles seem to lie not in the visible world of conscious intent, but in the murky realm of the unconscious mind.
-- Augustus

#Lying #Mind #Roles

Did I play my role well? If so, then applause, because the comedy is finished!
-- Augustus

#Play #Roles #Comedy

Sitcoms are incredibly limiting. When you do a sitcom and it becomes a signature part for you, it's harder to do something else; but if you do a drama, you can get lost in it and have a role to do other things.
-- Aunjanue Ellis

#Drama #Signatures #Roles

When a 'Life of Brian' comes out with Muhammad in the lead role, directed by an Arab equivalent of Theo van Gogh, it will be a huge step forward.
-- Ayaan Hirsi Ali

#Roles #Steps #Muhammad

I guess I feel like it's a gift to meet those talented artists like George Lucas and Oliver Stone, Spike Lee and Richard Kelly. Even if it's a small role, it's a gift to be working that closely with them.
-- Bai Ling

#Artist #Roles #Stones