Roles Quotes

• I traveled and worked with amazing actors, like Andy Garcia, Alec Baldwin, Brendan Fraser, Forest Whitaker, Lee Pace. It was this great learning experience. And then, I started watching a lot of television. I was always in these foreign countries and I would get TV shows on DVD, and I started to realize that all of the amazing roles for women were on television. I was spoiled by Buffy because I thought that was the way it was everywhere, and it's not.

  

  Sarah Michelle Gellar
  • Country
  • Actors
  • Realizing

• Hmm, limelight... No, I'm not Sienna Miller or Angelina Jolie. I'm very lucky and happy, but I still find it very difficult to get good scripts and good roles. It's really a jungle out there.

  

  Eva Green
  • Scripts
  • Limelight
  • Angelina Jolie

• I've learned a lot from doing the sitcom. I've learned so much about comedic timing. For all the movies I've done, I've played so many different roles. I love both, but I guess in my career maybe I want to stick more to film.

  

  Kaitlyn Dever
  • Different
  • Done
  • Career

• You cannot win an Emmy for roles that are simply not there.

  

  Viola Davis
  • Winning
  • Roles
  • Emmys

• There's an idea about who I am that's eternally projected onto me, and then I almost feel like I have to fulfill that role. Even when things come out of my mouth, I want to be sure I'm saying exactly what I mean.

  

  Kristen Stewart
  • Mean
  • Ideas
  • Feels

• When I was in my 20s, I wanted to go after dramatic roles, and I didn't have a tremendous amount of success with that.

  

  William Emerson Arnett
  • Wanted
  • Dramatic
  • Amount

• The more comedic roles come easier to me though because I see myself as a silly, easy-going person.

  

  Sara Paxton
  • Easy
  • Silly
  • Comedic

• When you're a musician and you go out onstage, and you're someone who loves attention, you are going to become a role model to some extent.

  

  Kathleen Hanna Bikini Kill
  • Attention
  • Musician
  • Models

• The role at the DCCC as well as the role of chief deputy whip - I wouldn't be where I am in those spots if it were not for the speaker's approval.

  

  Joseph Crowley
  • Approval
  • Speakers
  • Chiefs

• Sometimes, I even recite the role to the actor if it's not clear. And I beg them not to imitate me, because I'm not a good actor.

  

  Sergio Leone
  • Sometimes
  • Actors
  • Clear

• The U.S. has become a defacto one-party state, with the legislative branch permanently controlled by an incumbent's party and every president exploiting his role as Commander-in-Chief to expand on the imperial prerogatives of his office.

  

  Andrew Bacevich
  • Party
  • President
  • Office

• I would like to take on roles which nobody would expect. I don't want to be reduced to love stories. I'd like to try dark, edgy roles. I need a challenge.

  

  Ronan Keating Boyzone
  • Dark
  • Challenge
  • Take

• Argentina and Brasil are both extremely good south american teams who'll play a central role at the worldcup.

  

  Thomas Müller
  • Team
  • Roles
  • South

• Mike gets to play four roles this time, if we ever did it again, he will play my role as well. He is a comic genius, everyone wants to be in this movie, let's hope that everyone will wish to see it as well.

  

  Michael York
  • Genius
  • Comic
  • Mike

• I don't think there's anymore chocolate boy left in me... Like, if I do the roles on the screen that border on romance, it will be age-appropriate.

  

  R. Madhavan
  • Roles
  • Romance
  • Chocolate Boy

• I am very happy that I am getting to play such layered and demanding characters. I feel blessed that directors are trusting me with such roles.

  

  Vicky Kaushal
  • Characters
  • Directors
  • Trusting

• I just hope this [Emmy] is now a part of the status quo that women of color are included in the narratives that continue to write lead roles for us.

  

  Viola Davis
  • Color
  • Narrative
  • Emmys

• Actors are limited by their appearance and while it has cost me some roles, it has got me some very important roles too.

  

  Kabir Bedi
  • Important
  • Roles
  • Cost

• I haven't always played nice guys. In 'Gremlins,' I was a conceited, pompous braggart, and I was a redneck chauvinist in the TV movie 'A Matter of Sex.' But I really prefer sympathetic roles.

  

  Judge Reinhold
  • Played
  • Prefer
  • Sympathetic

• Creating my own roles, as an actor, is great. You're so at the mercy of other people, and you're waiting for a job. That's just a horrible way to live, so I just decided to take matters into my own hands, find my own projects, and create them myself, and then do other stuff that people might throw my way as well.

  

  Catherine Bell
  • Create
  • Own
  • Creating

• Although we can't control which roles are assigned to us, it must be our business to act our given role as best we possibly can and to refrain from complaining about it. Where ever you find yourself and in whatever circumstances, give an impeccable performance.

  

  Epictetus
  • Business
  • Circumstances
  • Roles

• I never bring a role home with me. The moment they say, 'It's a wrap,' it's gone completely. I'm a totally ruthless professional, and life is my family, not my work.

  

  Michael Caine
  • Life
  • Home
  • Moments

• I think Danny Boyle's got it in his head that we all still look too young (to do a 'Trainspotting' sequel.) But, I mean, I don't look like anyone I play, anyways, so I don't really know where that comes from. Because, you know, you change yourself for the roles. I'm actually not Scottish, either!

  

  Jonny Lee Miller
  • Thinking
  • Play
  • Mean

• What's impressive to me is how (Illinois) plugged into their roles and identity of that basketball team. What is our identity What end of the court Who is doing it How are we going to win games

  

  Dan Monson
  • Team
  • Impressive
  • Illinois

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