Roles Quotes

• 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
  • Band
  • Sense
  • Roles

• I certainly identify with the role of mentor and, to some degree, maybe teacher. I do a lot of work with kids at the Old Vic.

  

  Kevin Spacey
  • Work
  • Kids
  • Teacher

• ... 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
  • Work
  • Men
  • Women

• I've been fortunate in my career to have performed in revivals of great musicals and to have originated roles in musicals that have in turn been revived. And I'm not dead!

  

  Bernadette Peters
  • Great
  • Career
  • Careers

• But when I think of superchicks, I think of the roles, not the variety.

  

  Adrienne Barbeau
  • Thinking
  • Roles
  • Variety

• 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
  • Done
  • Looks
  • Adventure

• My association with Playboy is great for getting the pretty girl roles but for anything more serious like hosting, not everyone likes that.

  

  Karen McDougal
  • Girl
  • Association
  • Playboy

• Do you dislike your role in the story, your place in the shadow? What complaints do you have that the hobbits could not have heaved at Tolkien? You have been born into a narrative, you have been given freedom. Act, and act well until you reach your final scene.

  

  N.D. Wilson
  • Freedom
  • Shadow
  • Finals

• When I was 12, I did my first sort of speaking role. But I wouldn't say I had a passion for it from the start. It developed as I started to become a bit more mature.

  

  Yasmin Paige
  • Passion
  • Firsts
  • Roles

• 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
  • Movie
  • Interested
  • Shakespeare

• 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
  • Trying
  • Running
  • Disappointment

• Monk encouraged me to emancipate the drums from their subservient role as timekeepers.

  

  Max Roach
  • Music
  • Monk
  • Subservient

• Essentially, I'm a small-part actor who's been lucky enough to play leading roles for most of his life.

  

  Alec Guinness
  • Life
  • Small
  • Play

• I think it's great when dramatic actors do lighter, funny roles.

  

  Noureen DeWulf
  • Actor
  • Roles
  • Dramatic

• 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
  • Drama
  • Theater
  • Comfortable

• 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
  • Play
  • Roles

• 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
  • People
  • Drama
  • Independent

• 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
  • Good
  • Work
  • Thinking

• I take away something from every role.

  

  Cary Elwes
  • Roles

• Malcolm X already envisioning the N.O.I. playing a role cooperatively with integrationist organizations.

  

  Manning Marable
  • Organization
  • Roles
  • Envisioning

• I really just don't think that teenagers and adults are maybe as different as people think, and so the best roles, to me, are treated like real people and not like these 'crazy kids we don't know what to do with.'

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • People
  • Kids
  • Crazy

• My quarrel is not with the legitimate role of government but with the unlimited role of government.

  

  Rick Perry
  • Government
  • Quarrels
  • Unlimited

• In 2009, I didn't like that Yamaha signed such a young and competitive teammate [Jorge Lorenzo]. But now everything is different. We are more mature. Everyone knows his role and position. Things are clear.

  

  Valentino Rossi
  • Different
  • Teammate
  • Yamaha

• Historically, the family has played the primary role in educating children for life, with the school providing supplemental scaffolding to the family.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Children
  • School
  • Primaries

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