Role Quotes
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Mothers play an important role as the heart of the home, but this in no way lessens the equally important role fathers should play, as head of the home, in nurturing, training, and loving their children.
Ezra Taft Benson -
It's nice to be given a role where you can really find the strength from within, as a woman, and to be heard.
Nicky Whelan
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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 -
Landing a role now is not based on my looks - more on my acting ability.
Jude Law -
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 -
Once scouting fully opens its doors to all who desire the same experience that so fully enriched me as a young person, I will be happy to reconsider a role on the advisory board.
Steven Spielberg -
I feel like every role you take, there's a part of you that obviously feels like you can do it.
Mila Kunis -
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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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 -
There is nothing like getting a performance-oriented role.
Raashi Khanna -
I am defining leadership in terms of the role, not the position.
Edgar Schein -
I prepare for every role. I come into class with my homework under my arm.
Paul Sorvino -
The greatest contribution jazz has made in music has been to replace the role of the conductor with a member of the ensemble who, instead of waving his arms to keep time and convey mood, is an active member of the musical statement. That person is the drummer.
Elvin Jones -
To change something in the minds of people - that's the role of an intellectual.
Michel Foucault
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If someone has already done a role I'm about to do, I won't watch the original until after I'm finished playing the role.
Sanaa Lathan -
Don’t be timid. You’re a writer, use your role, test it, make something of it. These are decisive times, everything is turning upside down. Participate, be present. And begin with the scum in your area, put their backs to the wall.
Elena Ferrante -
I just want to do a good job with each role that I take and continue to better myself as an actress because that's what I love about this job... being able to act and work with so many different people on such a wide range of projects.
Emma Stone -
After every movie, you get offered the role that you just did in the last movie.
Noah Emmerich -
You're forced to step into that performer role. I can't just hide behind a synthesizer forever.
Nicholas Thorburn -
... that gender is a choice, or that gender is a role, or that gender is a construction that one puts on, as one puts on clothes in the morning, that there is a 'one' who is prior to this gender, a one who goes to the wardrobe of gender and decides with deliberation which gender it will be today.
Judith Butler
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The only role other than paying their taxes, whatever those are, the only role for philanthropy broadly - of which the rich should give disproportionately - the more, the better - and I think there is a positive trend in that direction - there are certain risk-taking things, like trying out a new type of charter school or funding a new kind of medicine.
Bill Gates -
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 -
I am frustrated at misconceptions of me, and being cast in a role.
Ezra Furman -
I also feel I adapted. I was willing to try to fit into any role. The way I figured, it was always up to me to prove my worth, that I deserved to be here.
Steve Yzerman