Roles Quotes

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

  

  Viola Davis
  • Winning
  • Roles
  • Emmys

• I like roles that bring the unexpected. Roles that may challenge the way people think about things and perceive things. And I like roles that reflect a reality.

  

  Bokeem Woodbine
  • Reality
  • Challenge
  • Reflect

• The most immediate task is to make certain that no state or combination of states gains the capacity to expel the United States from Eurasia or even to diminish significantly its decisive arbitration role.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Power
  • Roles
  • Gains

• The media sells it and you live the role.

  

  Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath
  • Art
  • Media
  • Entertainment

• I was born to stand out. I don't care whether or not people will find me attractive on screen. That's not why I became an actor. I know that more and more with each new role.

  

  Gabourey Sidibe
  • People
  • Why
  • Actors

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

  

  Sara Paxton
  • Easy
  • Silly
  • Comedic

• It took several years of hard work in small roles before I attained stardom.

  

  Bela Lugosi
  • Work
  • Small
  • Stardom

• Of all the roles I've done on the stage, I'm partial to Cyrano de Bergerac.

  

  Bela Lugosi
  • Done
  • Stage
  • Cyrano de Bergerac

• It is the role of the poet to look at what is happening in the world and to know that quite other things are happening.

  

  V. S. Pritchett
  • World
  • Looks
  • Roles

• Therapy? I don't need that. The roles that I choose are my therapy.

  

  Angelina Jolie
  • Needs
  • Roles
  • Therapy

• 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

• I don't really have preferred roles except those with some complexity.

  

  Richard Roxburgh
  • Roles
  • Complexity
  • Preferred

• 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

• 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 love making movies, and being in any that I can be in. I'd like to be in those giant movies, as the fifth or sixth lead, and have three or four killer scenes. You don't have the responsibility of the entire movie being on you. I like those roles. I'm shooting for the middle.

  

  Bill Burr
  • Responsibility
  • Scene
  • Middle

• If a person is right for a role, I don't care where they got their training.

  

  Rachel Hoffman
  • Care
  • Training
  • Roles

• A concern with parenting...must direct attention beyond behavior. This is because parenting is not simply a set of behaviors, but participation in an interpersonal, diffuse, affective relationship. Parenting is an eminently psychological role in a way that many other roles and activities are not.

  

  Nancy Chodorow
  • Way
  • Relationship
  • Attention

• The only thing I wouldn't like to do is to play roles as a musician. I'm not sure that I would be comfortable doing that, and I'm not sure I'd be very good at it. I think I would be better served, and would be a better partner, if I was in something outside of myself.

  

  Larry Mullen, Jr. U2
  • Thing
  • Musician
  • Outside

• It's true that I'm drawn to unusual stories. Normal roles don't really attract me.

  

  Eva Green
  • Stories
  • Roles
  • Drawn

• There were so many things that were wrong (against West Virginia). We just have to re-define our roles a little, do what we have to do and how we can do it.

  

  C. Vivian Stringer
  • Roles
  • Can Do
  • Many Things

• I think the roles in television are better for women right now. At this point, I don't want to continue doing the same things I've been doing in film because it's very limited.

  

  Sandra Oh
  • Thinking
  • Film
  • Television

• Theater actors like to change character roles. They don't like to always do the same thing.

  

  Marcello Mastroianni
  • Character
  • Actors
  • Roles

• 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

• 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

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