Role Quotes

No one will ever argue that someone could have played Helen Keller better than Patty Duke. It was an incredibly demanding role and I don't think anyone can argue that it was a false performance.

In the time between when you first read a script and are offered the role and the time when you begin to shoot, I really love putting in the time and work on that and getting a solid backstory to a character and researching all that I can about what that person does for a vocation or their upbringing or where they're from.

You know, when they called me about the role, I thought Knots Landing was a show about a houseboat with Andy Griffith!

Dick Clark is an American icon. I am honored that he has entrusted me with such a role in this national tradition.

I'm quite a curious person. I don't mind being the one who doesn't know things, a role I often play in QI.

I loved fantasy role play.

People who dream of something bigger and better are good role models.

I understand it's my role to realize people's dreams.

I had done everything I could do as an astronaut, and we have a long line of inexperienced astronauts waiting for their first missions, and so my role really should be to step aside and help them prepare for their missions, rather than to try to get another mission.

I want to get to a point in my career where I can be a role model. A good one. I want to say, 'I got here without drugs, and I got here without drinking or smoking. If I can do it, you can do it. I have no doubt.' I really want kids to have a chance in life.

A fitting external security environment could also play an important role in promoting social consensus and institutionalization towards democratization.

Providing patients and consumers with solid information on the cost and quality of their healthcare options can literally make the difference between life or death; and play a decisive role in whether a family or employer can afford healthcare.

This year my role is clear: I am a coach, a coach to sportsmen.

It's a clique and I think a clique exists in every business. There's a circle of people that are guaranteed to open a movie and we all know their names and whether they're right or wrong for the role.

This role is more visible, and I grew up without a lot of that sort of modeling so I'm relieved and proud to have done this film.

So long as the Zulu people are here, clearly I will still have a role to play in this country.

Even on the greatest teams, there's always one role player.

If I'm a game show host, will someone buy a ticket to see me do standup? To do a dramatic role in a movie?

I feel that my role as a former president is probably superior to that of other presidents. Primarily because of the activism and the injection of working at the Carter Center, and in international affairs, and to some degree, domestic affairs, on energy conservation, on environment, and things of that kind.

Christians can bring peace to multi-religious Europe because we are able to understand the role of faith in the lives of other believers better than atheists.

Really, in a way, I took over the male role.

I just try and do the best with every role I get to do. Hopefully the experience in itself is a good experience and people will want to work with me.

I think whether you're having setbacks or not, the role of a leader is to always display a winning attitude.

An actor has to embody a role.

I've also just finished filming the role of Robert Brown in 'Just William,' which is due to transmit on BBC One at Christmas.

Nothing is ever simple. What do you do when you discover you like parts of the role you're trying to escape?

I don't think Bill is a role model for anyone.

The dual scourge of hunger and malnutrition will be truly vanquished not only when granaries are full, but also when people's basic health needs are met and women are given their rightful role in societies.

There are some fine books and essays about that. Lewis Hyde has written about alcoholism and poets and the role that society gives its writers - encouraging them to die.

The independent role of morphology in mate choice is revealed by the rare instances where the usual association between song and morphology is disrupted.