Roles Quotes
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Theater actors like to change character roles. They don't like to always do the same thing.
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It's hard to find black roles that are just whimsical and fun and colorful. And I think, in many ways, that can be just as powerful in making commentary about race through movies.
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Of all the roles I've done on the stage, I'm partial to Cyrano de Bergerac.
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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.
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Perhaps I have managed some sort of longevity because I haven't won the lead roles.
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It's true that I'm drawn to unusual stories. Normal roles don't really attract me.
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I'd love to play more challenging roles, characters that would stretch my comfort zone and imagination.
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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.
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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.
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The media sells it and you live the role.
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If I don't believe in a role, I can't pull it off.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I'm really thrilled to kind of be a role models for my daughters, and showing them the passion about what I do, and I get to go to work and I love to go to work. That's what I saw my mom doing my whole life.
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The first thing you do is sit down with your wife and say something like this, Honey, I've made a terrible mistake. I've given you my role. I gave up leading this family. ... I'm not suggesting that you ask for your role back, I'm urging you to take it back ... Be sensitive. Listen. Treat the lady gently and lovingly. But lead!
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Therapy? I don't need that. The roles that I choose are my therapy.
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There are times when I don't take roles because I don't want to be perceived a certain way.
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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.
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My job is to play many different roles with all sorts of different backgrounds and orientations.
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If a person is right for a role, I don't care where they got their training.
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Actors are limited by their appearance and while it has cost me some roles, it has got me some very important roles too.
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I guess I'm attracted to these off beat roles because my life has been a bit abnormal.
