Role Quotes
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Every role sort of teaches you how to prepare for it.
Sigourney Weaver
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Even the simple act that we call "going to visit a person of our acquaintance" is in part an intellectual act. We fill the physical appearance of the person we see with all the notions we have about him, and in the totality of our impressions about him, these notions play the most important role.
Marcel Proust
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The role of CO2 is not nearly as clear as the climate catastrophists would suggest.
Tony Abbott
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I feel like my role is to be one of those voices who reaches the youth.
Hannah Teter
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I didn't know what types of movies I wanted to do. I want to do things that are different. I want to take my time with each role.
Leonardo DiCaprio
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I will not accept a role just because a big hero stars in it. I am not here to merely dance, run around trees, and be a glam doll.
Nithya Menen
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There have been many times when I've auditioned and I've actually won a different role in the same film.
Johnathon Schaech
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My role - and that is too emphatic a word - is to show people that they are much freer than they feel, that people accept as truth, as evidence, some themes which have been built up at a certain moment during history, and that this so-called evidence can be criticized and destroyed.
Michel Foucault
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I prepare for every role. I come into class with my homework under my arm.
Paul Sorvino
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I think that I've still not been successful at playing the role of the retired actor, and I'd like to work on that.
Sean Penn
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You can admire people for sure, and they're worth admiring, but you need to find that special thing about yourself. It takes working hard, getting the technique, and learning to sing and all that stuff, but the master class is about bringing yourself to the role.
Susan Egan
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We're all clichés, all following scripts that have been written and played out long before we landed the role.
Jonathan Tropper
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The duties he won't have are budget, budget development, supervision and discipline of employees. Clearly, Carrol Henderson has played a key role in education and promotion. That's where we need him most.
Brad Moore
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If you do your job properly you usually learn a lot from any role you do.
Rene Auberjonois
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I only had a cough and spit role as a prostitute but they put my bit in the advert the last time it was on TV so I got 'oh, working with Owen Wilson are you?' I got a lot of ribbing about being the whore in Shanghai Knights.
Alison King
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Prestige and premium will also play an important role in the future. But some people define these values differently today.
Norbert Reithofer
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The role of a retired person is no longer to possess one.
Simone de Beauvoir
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Failure had to change him. When you ask what my role is: From an attorney position, it's having the right systems in place.
Aaron Cohen
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I wish I could play the lead role in one movie, one great movie.
Alec Baldwin
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I've always loved the drama and the creating of a role and performance and all that comes with that, but I then also kind of like to have just the white picket fence life if that makes sense.
Nicole Kidman
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When I choose a role, I look for that spark that tells me it's going to work. Is the role fresh? What does it have for the actor in me? Those are the only things any actor should be concerned about, really.
Nivin Pauly
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I feel that my role as a former president is probably superior to that of other presidents. Primarily because of the activism and the injection of working at the Carter Center, and in international affairs, and to some degree, domestic affairs, on energy conservation, on environment, and things of that kind.
Jimmy Carter
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Part of my role, I suppose, is to run government business in the House of Representatives, and try to ensure that people know exactly what's going on in the Chamber is an important part of that.
Tony Abbott
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Every director is always directing around the play. If you have an actor who really doesn't get the character well enough, you have to direct the play around that character. You have to make choices with that actor. If you have an actor that really doesn't get the role and has certain visions of the role, sometimes you have to direct around that actor.
Nilo Cruz