Role Quotes

My mom died of cancer when I was really young. I'm not someone who tries to work out their own stuff with a role, but I think that happened despite my best efforts to keep myself separate from it.

I don't really look at myself as a role model. And I just am the way I am and if people want to look up to me, they do. By no means do I like to give a negative image either.

I couldn't imagine what Fox thought they were doing, contemplating such a jagged protagonist for a prime-time drama. I only knew that I wanted the role very much.

No matter what the role, you're trying to do the impossible - make a living in show business.

I know this is going to sound cheesy and like I'm trying to be Miss America, but the most important responsibility a celebrity has is to set an example and be a role model.

The role of the teacher is to create the conditions for invention rather than provide ready-made knowledge.

One of the problems is that everybody is used to the old-fashioned debate system, which is very controlled, and where the moderator plays a more active role.

I remember I was like five or six years old; I played the devil. That was my first role.

The alliance should agree... to an effective NATO role against the new threats presented by international terrorism and weapons of mass destruction.

The Halifax area has long played a major role in Canada's military operations, being the port of departure for convoys, naval task forces and army units over the past 100 years or so.

I tell my students, if you ever become comfortable with your role as criminal defense lawyer, it's time to quit. It should be a constant source of discomfort, because you're dealing with incredible moral ambiguity, and you've been cast into a role which is not enviable.

The joy we get as actors is out of transforming ourselves into something that's not necessarily anything true to ourselves. And it's a power - not being yourself, and being in the role; it's just like another prop.

The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say.

Just give me a good role that allows me to hone my craft, and I am a pretty happy camper.

Yes. I was the first female colonel. I enjoyed being that kind of role model for young women watching the show. A woman can be a colonel! A woman can be in charge! Those were new ideas then.

Government has a role as well in what is referred to as redistributive justice.

Well ironically my last three roles have all been a mother. One was a Canadian film where the baby was taken away because she is a drug addict, in Irish Jam I play a mother to a four year old. I think in the future I'll be able to handle the role with a lot more depth.

Canada is preparing to play a major role in the continued stability and security of Afghanistan through ISAF.

As social media is less about technology and more about relationship building, we are starting to see more women have a heavy influence if not dominant role in the social media space. It's no wonder that Facebook is being run in part by chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg.

I don't personally feel a responsibility to be a role model, but as the actor, I do.

I've never done any nudity, but I would do basically anything if a role called for it.

My role models in the business were the older guys on my team when I first got there: Gray Scott, Adrian Smith, Roland Taylor. These were the guys who took me under their wing, and really schooled me in terms of what the business was about.

It's the same as any role and I find that you can't lump characters together; because they all have different life experiences, different reasons for being the way they are.

It was my first straight dramatic role, and the most adult, intelligent one I have ever played.

In terms of having views and being prepared to express them, yes, I think New Zealand's had a leadership role in a lot of things.

If you think about Shakespeare, you remember Richard III and Macbeth before you remember Ferdinand, whose role is just to fall in love and be a bit of a wimp. I love the baddies. More important, though, is making the baddies somehow, weirdly, understood.

I don't think kids should have role models. They're disastrous.

Religion obviously played a role in this book and the previous book, too.

It's easier in some ways being on the life raft and the other guy's in the boat and you can row alongside and be supportive. In some ways, that's an easier role.

There is a legitimate role for development education in the UK, but I do not believe these projects give the taxpayer value for money.