Role Quotes

• I played a role. That is what actors do. But I played it too well. I went too far. And by the time I wanted to stop, to take a bow and leave the stage, it was too late.

  

  Jennifer Donnelly
  • Actors
  • Role
  • Played

• Bio-Technology is expected to play a major role in improving productivity.

  

  Tariq Anwar
  • Technology
  • Play
  • Productivity

• We are taking a look at the use of intelligence, and we're taking a look at the role the Defense Department played, and we're looking at prewar Iraq ... in a careful and deliberate way, because we want to get it right.

  

  J. M. Roberts
  • Defense
  • Iraq
  • Department

• I would say that I definitely play a different role with my style; I like to mix it up a bit according to wherever I am. I dress differently in New York, L.A., Paris and London.

  

  Rachel Zoe
  • Play
  • Style
  • New York

• If I had remained in Lhasa, even without the Chinese occupation, I would probably have carried the ceremonial role in some orthodox way.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Way
  • Chinese
  • Without

• I would not want to be a part sass-bahu sagas. These are not realistic, and it gets tough for me to relate to my role.

  

  Rithvik Dhanjani
  • Part
  • Relate
  • Realistic

• I have learned to pare down what I do and still be effective and strong in a role.

  

  Mira Sorvino
  • Strong
  • Learned
  • Still

• This has nothing to do with that, ... If the feds begin to do what they need to do, the relative role of the state agencies would diminish. Nothing I've said means that we wouldn't do all our cases over again.

  

  Eliot Spitzer
  • Role
  • Cases
  • Agencies

• The two contemporary writers whom I consider as role models are Janet Malcolm and Michael Lewis.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • Two
  • Role
  • Role Models

• I don't like to reduce a role to fit me. The challenge to me is to expand to it. Sometimes it works, and sometimes it doesn't. But that's the challenge of it.

  

  Cate Blanchett
  • Challenge
  • Reduce
  • Expand

• If my favourite director gives me a role that is very sparkly? A very brilliant character? I'll do it.

  

  Doona Bae
  • Character
  • Role
  • Sparkly

• Journalists were never intended to be the cheerleaders of a society, the conductors of applause, the sycophants. Tragically, that is their assigned role in authoritarian societies, but not here - not yet.

  

  Chet Huntley
  • Society
  • Role
  • Journalists

• I understand it's my role to realize people's dreams.

  

  Ayumi Hamasaki
  • People
  • Dreams
  • Peoples

• It's always hard, after you've been in command, to take a lesser role.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • You
  • Always
  • Role

• People do make a distinction between what someone does in his personal life and his ability to do his job. However, if this involved perjury or obstruction of justice, which speaks to his role as president, the public has not come to any conclusion on that yet.

  

  Andrew Kohut
  • Justice
  • President
  • Role

• I marvelled at her capabilities as a mother - naturally empathic but no pushover, funny and generous, frank about her own limitations and the challenges of parenting, loving and affectionate but unsentimental - absolutely solid in her role.

  

  Camilla Gibb
  • Mother
  • Solid
  • Capabilities

• In Plato's republic, poets were considered subversive, a danger to the republic. I kind of relish that role. So I see my present role as a gadfly, to use my soapbox to promote my various ideas and obsesions.

  

  Lawrence Ferlinghetti
  • Present
  • Danger
  • Poets

• The real test of a man is not when he plays the role that he wants for himself but when he plays the role destiny has for him.

  

  Vaclav Havel
  • Real
  • Destiny
  • Plays

• The most important role of managers is to create environment in which people are passionately dedicated to winning in marketplace.

  

  Andy Grove
  • People
  • Important
  • Environment

• You know that was much more of a kind of cameo, I love the movie, I love the story, I love Johnny as a fun little role but it was more of a cameo, not anywhere near as developed as this role.

  

  Oliver Platt
  • Movie
  • Fun
  • Know

• Ordinary women of grace are, in a sense, my real role models.

  

  Marian Wright Edelman
  • Women
  • Real
  • Models

• What I love to do requires portraying different characters, and you have to separate your life from the role.

  

  Natasha Calis
  • Life
  • Different
  • Characters

• Cinderella is making her Broadway debut. It's an honor to step into that position and, in that way, I am creating a role because it's never been done on Broadway. I feel so honored.

  

  Laura Osnes
  • Honor
  • Step
  • Cinderella

• All experts on WHO advisory groups for developing norms, standards and guidelines are required to disclose interests regarding the advisory committee's area of work. If a declared interest is potentially significant, then the expert is either excluded from the meeting or given a restricted role.

  

  Margaret Chan
  • Work
  • Expert
  • Advisory

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