Role Quotes

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

  

  George Singleton
  • Society
  • Role
  • Madman

• It's difficult to say no sometimes. I often hear, "They'll really take care of you," or "Someone else is going to take the role if you don't play it." Some of the best advice I ever received was to always ask myself: Am I going to kill myself if somebody else takes this role? The answer is almost always no.

  

  Tom Hanks
  • Advice
  • Role
  • Kill

• Now it's been fifteen years, nine games, and an enormous blast to undertake. If it were my choice, I would do this role forever. To hear anyone else's voice coming from Snake's battered throat, makes me a little ill, to be honest.

  

  David Hayter
  • Choice
  • Honest
  • Enormous

• I am really excited to be taking up this role.

  

  Prince William
  • Up
  • Role

• It has nothing to do with the emotional demands of a role; I've done comedies that are as draining to me as any drama.

  

  Sean Penn
  • Drama
  • Demands
  • Comedies

• I feel I have to play a role in the transformation of my thoughts. Music is the most powerful way for me to do that, through my own music, through listening to other people's music.

  

  Becky Stark
  • Music
  • Way
  • Transformation

• Really focusing on what I have to do right now... no matter what role I'm playing - it alleviates everything around me and makes everything a lot more simple.

  

  Nick Foles
  • Playing
  • Role
  • Focusing

• The moment you say, 'I want to do a role,' the story suffers. I don't set priorities in terms of roles or scripts.

  

  Boman Irani
  • Priorities
  • Scripts
  • Suffers

• It's our responsibility to be a good role model and to carry ourselves in a way that would make our country proud.

  

  Sasha Cohen
  • Responsibility
  • Model
  • Role

• I do see the poet as someone whose role it is to push back against anti-intellectualism, anti-activism, and passivity in general. The purpose of this pushing back is to show that there are always infinite sides to a story, amazing unimagined perspectives on any narrative, and no limit to how weird and wild and unexpected our language and its meanings can get.

  

  Brenda Shaughnessy
  • Language
  • Pushing
  • Anti-intellectualism

• When accepting or preparing for a role, fear is the motivating factor.

  

  Josh Brolin
  • Fear
  • Preparing
  • Motivating

• As a former small business owner, I recognize both the important role small businesses play in our economy and the broad universe of challenges that small business owners face in trying to make ends meet.

  

  Sue Kelly
  • Face
  • Role
  • Small Businesses

• The role of a leader is not to rule over other people, but to hold a space for their own genius.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • People
  • Space
  • Leader

• We live in a world of terrorism where evil acts are being regularly perpetrated in the name of your faith. And because it is your faith that is being invoked as justification for these evil acts, it is your problem. You can't wish it away, or ignore it, just because it has been caused by others. Instead, speak up and condemn terrorism, defend your role in the way of life that we all share here in Australia.

  

  Andrew Robb
  • Faith
  • Role
  • Terrorism

• I would happily, sometimes more than happily, have vacated my role as an animal theologian, if there were others prepared to take my place.

  

  Andrew Linzey
  • Place
  • Role
  • Prepared

• When I was 13, 14 and 15, she was a role model. She was one of the few skaters that didn't lose her temper, that would have a bad day and have a great attitude.

  

  Sasha Cohen
  • Attitude
  • Model
  • Temper

• Progressing to where you can play a big role in football is nothing you can achieve in just two years. It will at least take five, six, well more likely seven years. A once-in-a-life-time success does not help you, constant quality is what you have to go for.

  

  Berti Vogts
  • Help
  • Football
  • Achieve

• Microsoft isn't going away any time soon, but the role they will play in the future of software will not be the same as it has been in the past two decades

  

  Sabeer Bhatia
  • Future
  • Role
  • Microsoft

• The first movie I had a featured role in was Parting Glances.

  

  Steve Buscemi
  • Role
  • Glances
  • First Movie

• I've done a lot of different things. I would say, it's really hard for me to say what the ultimate role would be. You look at a film if it comes to you.

  

  Morris Chestnut
  • Film
  • Role
  • Different Things

• I will jump into most any role.

  

  Cathy Rigby
  • Jump
  • Role
  • Any

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

  

  Heidi Montag
  • Role
  • Dolly Parton

• This game is repeated again and again, and in it the role of the so-called 'German princes' is just as miserable as that of the Jews themselves. These lords were really God's punishment for their beloved peoples and find their parallels only in the various ministers of the present time.

  

  Adolf Hitler
  • Role
  • German
  • Princes

• When we say gender is performed, we usually mean that weve taken on a role or were acting in some way and that our acting or our role playing is crucial to the gender that we are and the gender that we present to the world.

  

  Emily Dickinson
  • Playing
  • Role
  • Gender

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