Roles Quotes

• Music played a large role in the survival of the black people in America — that and a sense of humor that just couldn't be enslaved.

  

  Redd Foxx
  • Humor
  • Survival
  • Roles

• I do intelligent roles. I don't want to be labeled as doing silly movies. I'm more mature than kids my age because I'm constantly surrounded by adults.

  

  Mischa Barton
  • Kids
  • Age
  • Intelligent

• I had a dual role: designer and advocate.

  

  Michael Arad
  • Roles
  • Designer

• If you don't question the officials' role then you've got to ask what they are doing

  

  Arsene Wenger
  • Roles
  • Asks
  • Officials

• The way I go about choosing roles is basically by just trying to pick the complete opposite of the last thing I did, or if it has someone else who I really have wanted to work with.

  

  Anne Hathaway
  • Work
  • Roles
  • Opposite

• It should be noted that all four of these exalted roles—Jesus as messiah, as Lord, as Son of God, as Son of Man—imply, in one sense or another, that Jesus is God. In no sense, in this early period, is Jesus understood to be God the Father. He is not the One Almighty God. He is the one who has been elevated to a divine position and is God in a variety of senses.

  

  Bart Ehrman
  • Variety
  • Son Of God
  • Messiah

• I was so spoiled in a way. I worked very hard, but there was just a wealth of great roles.

  

  Winona Ryder
  • Way
  • Wealth
  • Roles

• I've played a lot of younger, more coming-of-age roles as well as roles that aren't such an imposing physical presence.

  

  Josh Keaton
  • Roles
  • Presence
  • Imposing

• I feel lucky that I've managed to get the roles I've wanted.

  

  Essie Davis
  • Lucky
  • Roles
  • Managed

• We understand that athletes aren't necessarily role models, but we at least expect them to abide by the basic laws of the state.

  

  Tim Pawlenty
  • Athlete
  • States
  • Models

• No, I like being a role model because I know how much comfort my musical idols brought me.

  

  Shirley Ann Manson Angelfish
  • Comfort
  • Musical
  • Models

• I know, I pick up the roles other actresses don’t want laughs. When there’s movies where there are two sisters and one’s the uglier sister, there’s always no actress that wants to go for it. I’m like, why not! They’re the best roles!

  

  Rebel Wilson
  • Laughing
  • Roles
  • Actresses

• Some roles are easier to choose, some roles are more difficult because they are more daring. Sometimes you have to dare.

  

  Isabelle Huppert
  • Choose
  • Roles
  • Dare

• I do try to look at scripts and keep an eye out for challenging roles.

  

  Raashi Khanna
  • Roles
  • Scripts
  • Challenging

• Men are boys for such a long time and really don't start getting the great roles until they're in their mid-thirties. But then they've got a long time to do them, whereas for women, it's all about playing younger and younger and younger.

  

  Cate Blanchett
  • Men
  • Women
  • Younger

• It's interesting to play a role where you don't really have to preoccupy yourself with any need to convince yourself that you're not acting.

  

  Michael C. Hall
  • Interesting
  • Roles
  • Convince

• I love taking on roles that other people have written for me just as much as I take on writing - just not as much of a, Oh, that guy. I want people to start saying, Oh, Brett Gelman's new piece is coming out. That's a Brett Gelman movie. That's a a Brett Gelman show.

  

  Brett Gelman
  • People
  • Brett Gelman movie
  • Brett Gelman show

• What I learned was there's no roles for women who won't be in their 40s. For women who will be in their 40s, there's a ton of work.

  

  Sharon Stone
  • Roles

• The bigger the movies you're in, the chances are better at getting more diverse roles.

  

  Haaz Sleiman
  • Movies
  • Roles
  • Chances

• As an actress, you go where the stories are. I don't really care where it's seen, at this point. I just want to tell good stories and do good roles that I haven't done before.

  

  Winona Ryder
  • Stories
  • Roles
  • Actress

• My faith has cost me a lot of money. Because I do creative roles, and I guess someone could think of me as, I could play bawdy, I could play rough around the edges. And so they think, 'Oh, she'll do this. It'll be so funny.' And I'm like, 'I'm not doing that.'

  

  Siobhan Fallon Hogan
  • Money
  • Faith
  • Roles

• You don't get roles like leading character in 'Christine' very often because people don't really like women on film to be unlikable. I think Christine is lovable, but I don't think she's likable. I think there's a fundamental difference. For me, those are the richest ones. Men have had a career of doing those kind of things.

  

  Rebecca Hall
  • Career
  • Difference
  • Roles

• It's funny because when I first met with Carmen, she said, "Have you ever thought about doing TV?" And I was like, "No, not really, but I'd audition for TV." And she said, "That's where the roles are for women now. That's where you can go and get a really great part."

  

  Eve Hewson
  • Funny
  • Roles
  • Audition

• I won't be satisfied with only commercial roles.

  

  Raashi Khanna
  • Roles
  • Satisfied
  • Commercial

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