Role Quotes
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I'm not a snob. If I feel like there's a star that's the best person for that role, then that's who I get.
Steven Soderbergh
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I think if you talk to the experts in any field where you have to take on a unknown challenge, where you're going to be working on it for a long time you'd find that to work themselves up to their best performance and really throw themselves into it, you know, spend all these hours in there and ah, give it their... give it their best that optimism plays a role.
Bill Gates
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With what we've been taught is the proper role of art, which is that you want to have it very neatly matted and framed and put on a white wall in some room where only a certain class of people are going to go in.
Eric Drooker
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Why do a crappy film role when you can do a meaty stage role? and ...I'm not small and curvy and I don't fit the prerequiste for small, passive, sexy chicks.
Nicole Kidman
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I always say my role in Metallica is to support the song and to support my team, and whatever that means, I'm there for it.
Robert Trujillo
Metallica
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Revision plays a very large role in writing. Sometimes it seems to be all revision. And the longer I write, the more I revise-until it is completely right.
Ellen Hunnicutt
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Hezbollah is not a mammoth force, there is only so much they can do in Syria. Iranian role more critical for the regime.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
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If you're playing a lead, you're shaping the movie. When you're playing a supporting role, you've got only a moment to make it count.
Stephen Rea
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We have to be role models. We have to be curious. Above all, we have to pay attention and be part of the conversation while our kids are still listening to us.
Anya Kamenetz
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What attracted me to A Perfect Getaway was that I sorta played a girlfriend role for, you know, 85 percent of the film. That was really interesting to me, because I'd never really played a girlfriend before.
Milla Jovovich
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To me, getting notes, honing the part, and refining the role is the real fun of the play.
Swoosie Kurtz
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If someone had said to me ten years ago "Yo, we have this role of this pimp who wants to be a rapper, he lives in Memphis", I'd be like, "Really?" But then when you read it and you see it, you say "That's a great role."
Morris Chestnut
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It's my job as an actor to commit to the role and not - through my own inhibitions - run away.
Nicole Kidman
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What role was she expected to play in his life, and more important, in her own?
Beverly Jenkins
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It would be easy to say that I want to play a role that was very much like myself, but more or less with acting, you get to be all these different things, and you aren't trying to be yourself, so it's escapism in a way.
Summer Altice
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The social science fear the radical impulse in literary studies, and over the decades, we in the humanities have trivialized the social sciences into their rational expectation straitjackets, not recognizing that, whatever the state of the social sciences in our own institution, strong tendencies toward acknowledging the silent but central role of the humanities in the area studies paradigm are now around.
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
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Military activities are not a role for the United States. There needs to be a number of steps that Maliki and his government must take to demonstrate that he is committed to an inclusive Iraq, something he has not done up to date.
Hillary Clinton
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Man is the hunter. Woman is the civilizing influence, and when women abandon that role, men become Cranky, and start wars.
Nicole Hollander
