Role Quotes

I have decided to end my participation in public affairs and to resign my role as premier of Quebec.

Lenders, including major credit companies as well as payday lenders, have taken over the traditional role of the street-corner loan shark, charging the poor insanely high rates of interest.

I will jump into most any role.

I was raised by a strong mother and I never felt like I had to be a role, you know, I was just me, who I am.

When I got this role, my daughter Molly said, 'Dad, you've come full circle.

I don't think it's the role of the prime minister to court the press.

I have a ridiculous fear of sharks but I'd jump in the water in a second for an amazing role.

Whenever you trace the origin of a skill or practices which played a crucial role in the ascent of man, we usually reach the realm of play.

And I had known Peter O'Toole before in London. And I'd liked him very much. And the thought of being in a picture with him was very challenging to me. And he was playing the starring role.

I can't imagine that I would have been cast in the role, without Jamie Lee giving me a thumbs up.

I go by intuition. Work-wise, that means asking myself if a role will push me outside my comfort zone, challenge me to learn something new.

I've always thought that people need to feel good about themselves and I see my role as offering support to them, to provide some light along the way.

My own personal connection with God was not in a religious sense, so I wasn't really thinking in that way when I got the role and when I started doing it.

My role in it was not as central as it was in some of the later cases considering I was younger then and I was playing a role of co-counsel on the case.

I'm the kind of person who if I was playing the role of someone who got shot, I'd probably want to get shot so I knew what it felt like.

I have spent many years of my life in opposition, and I rather like the role.

I don't know what the big issue is about a kiss with Neve Campbell in Wild Things. It's a role, and I think a bigger issue is made out of it. It was a part I took and it's what the character did, so I did it.

That's really my goal now. I'm trying to be a positive role model to my kids and to just enjoy this ride, because it's hard. It's hard to enjoy it when you're in it.

I was 20, I was an amateur from 14 but my first professional role was at 22.

It doesn't matter if you're the smartest person in the room: If you're not someone who people want to be around, you won't get far. Likewise for helping those in line behind you. I take seriously my role as a mentor to young female filmmakers - I make sure my time is tithed.

In our generation, the role models were Gandhi and Nehru. We revered them. They were venerated personalities. I read almost every speech of Nehru.

Our role in Israel is a pioneering one, and we need people with certain strength of fiber.

Past conference topics have included strengthening the role of fathers in children's lives, the impact of the media culture on children, the delicate balance between work and family, and family involvement in education.

The Internet empowers individuals to play a more active role in the political process, as Obama's campaign has manifested.

But with the steady disintegration of the family in modern society over the last century, the role of the school in bridging the gap has become vital!

They have equal weight and you do the same work you'd do if you were playing a dramatic role.

When I look at how the banking world has changed and at the role Chinese banks, for example, play today, Germany, as an export-oriented economy, should be pleased to have a major global player in its camp.

I said that America's role would be limited; that we would not put ground troops into Libya; that we would focus our unique capabilities on the front end of the operation, and that we would transfer responsibility to our allies and partners.

I don't believe that the U.S. needs to take a police role. I think it needs to support African nations that have said they want to become a part of the solution.

I think I'm a different kind of role model for young girls.