Roles Quotes
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No artiste wants to be boxed. We thrive on challenging roles, and they can come from anywhere. I consider myself blessed to be recognised as a pan-Indian actor. Yes, it means more hard work, prepping more for the roles, but I'm all for it.
Aditi Rao Hydari
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I've done a lot of serious roles, but they're, like, independent, so it's harder for them to come out. The big ones have been comedies, but I would love to get a big drama to let people see the other side of me, that I am a serious actress.
Tara Reid
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People who have committed to a service/advocacy role will tell you that some of the sublimest pleasure they have ever experienced comes in the context of that work. You get way more than you give.
Charles Garfield
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To love without role, without power plays, is revolution.
Rita Mae Brown
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My quarrel is not with the legitimate role of government but with the unlimited role of government.
Rick Perry
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Yes, you want to do studio movies, but I also want to grow as an actor, and an actress like me is not going to get roles where you grow and evolve in a studio film. It's just not gonna happen.
Octavia Spencer
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I always resented the role of a drummer as nothing more than a subservient figure.
Max Roach
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If I only get to play Malaysian roles, there wouldn't be very many roles for me to play.
Tan Sri Dato' Seri Michelle Yeoh Choo-Kheng
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I would love a recurring role on '90210.' I would say yes to just about any role in acting that doesn't tarnish my image.
Vinny Guadagnino
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For me, hour-long drama was always the thing I felt the most comfortable doing, and I've played so many dramatic roles in the theater.
Kate Burton
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Our guys are doing a nice job of stepping up and filling roles. We played great as a team tonight. We competed, we moved the ball well, and we took good shots.
Eric Swanson
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I've done a lot of things for a very young audience so far, such as The Sarah Jane Adventures. I'm tiny and petite and I look very young, so I tend to attract those kinds of roles.
Yasmin Paige
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Malcolm X already envisioning the N.O.I. playing a role cooperatively with integrationist organizations.
Manning Marable
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I feel like you can be the best role model by being yourself.
Kelly Clarkson
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When I run into disappointment - say, for example, not getting a role I'd hoped for - I just try not to take it personally.
Marina Ann Hantzis aTelecine
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I wouldn't do my roles if I really hated it. I've done things I hated, but I didn't go into them thinking I would hate them. I want to have fun. I don't want to go to work and not enjoy it. So if I'm swirling around on some wires, talking to Fred Flintstone, I make it the funnest I can. I also want to be good at it. I don't want to be a crap cartoon character. I want to be proud I'm a vitamin!
Alan Cumming
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Gunn, like me, has a James Bond obsession. He would love to be James Bond, and it's a great role that I would love to be, someday.
J. August Richards
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There are a lot of roles in Shakespeare, basically. If I feel that the script is a movie, I would be interested in doing any role of Shakespeare's.
Al Pacino
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You can be intuitive when you've got a more expansive role. You can get into the poetry of telling the story rather than just pushing buttons.
Willem Dafoe
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When I was growing up, I didn't see me in the movies except in certain lesser roles. If it wasn't funny, I wasn't there. Then Sidney Poitier came along, and he wasn't funny. He was just good. There's me. So that was my pattern.
Morgan Freeman
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The Tragically Hip, more so than any other band I've worked with, approach their work like a team. This might sound way too pat, but they're like a great hockey team: all five of them have their roles. They go at their shows like an athletic event; they're in it to win it, and they'll lay it out there on the proverbial ice in order to win and get the crowd on their side. You can't do that when you just throw a band together. There's a sixth sense there that makes it easy.
Steve Berlin Los Lobos
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I feel like I'm always being challenged by my voice acting roles, for multiple different reasons. I still get nervous every time I book a gig.
Ashly Burch
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... social roles vary in the extent to which it is culturally permissible to express ambivalence or negative feelings toward them.Ambivalence can be admitted most readily toward those roles that are optional, least where they are considered primary. Thus men repress negative feelings toward work and feel freer to express negative feelings toward leisure, sex and marriage, while women are free to express negative feelings toward work but tend to repress them toward family roles.
Alice S. Rossi
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Essentially, I'm a small-part actor who's been lucky enough to play leading roles for most of his life.
Alec Guinness