Role Quotes

I just play him as myself, I don't ease myself into any role really. I stick a beard on and play me.

Nobody I represent is pretending to be the pope or a role model for young people. People have to live their lives. They have the right to smoke if they want.

I have no acting technique I act instinctively. That's why I can't play any role that isn't based on something in my life.

So one day, in a fit of trying to do something different, I just dyed my hair dark brown and got my first role a week later, after which I thought: 'People are closed-minded, man! Like a different hair colour changes everything!'

It is not sex by itself that interests me, but its particular role in American consciousness, and in my own life.

Watergate was unique because it allowed the public to play its democratic role in expressing its outrage at the presidency. And as a result, for the first time in history a president resigned.

In this view, the role of the great majority of Americans is simply to buy the products produced, work happily for their wages, and leave all of the significant economic decisions to the capitalists.

We will not support returning Fannie and Freddie to the role they played before conservatorship, where they fought to take market share from private competitors while enjoying the privilege of government support.

For things to have value in man's world, they are given the role of commodities. Among man's oldest and most constant commodity is woman.

You can tell your uncle stuff that you could not tell your dad. That is kind of the role of an uncle. I feel very much like a father sometimes but sometimes I feel like a teammate.

I think each role takes a little from you and circles around you for the rest of your life. I don't think you ever abandon any of them.

Christianity makes of life a moral drama in which we play a starring role and in which the most ordinary events take on a grand significance.

I am proud to be a role model for my viewers. I am finding out that helping victims is as or more rewarding the all the awards I win.

The idea of writer as sage is pretty much dead today. I would certainly feel very uncomfortable in the role.

For the past few years, I was the more visible Asian performer, and I think it gave young girls a kind of role model showing it's possible to actually reach success doing movies.

It has nothing to do with the emotional demands of a role; I've done comedies that are as draining to me as any drama.

I keep myself content by doing lots of different stuff and make sure that my next role is completely different to the last. I just enjoy the versatility of it, the challenge of doing lots of different things. It keeps the job interesting.

I just did a spread in 'Maxim', I'm 35 years old. I've had women and parents email me asking if I should really be doing that, since I'm still considered a role model.

All prizes have a role, if they are run with integrity and with a clear focus on reading and quality writing. I don't think any of them is necessary, but they all play an incredibly important role in building a body of literature, in introducing new authors to new readers, and extending reading.

Same job, whether it's comedy or drama. Regardless of the weight of the role, I feel like the job is always kind of the same. Who is this person? What's this guy here, and how is he playing with this thing, and what's he trying to say? And what's the volley with all these other people around him?

I'd much rather turn down a starring role in a bad picture and do a small role in a very good picture.

I never turned down a mother role.

I'm just looking for a kind of project that will have a decent role and is something that I'll really enjoy doing. There are a lot more opportunities in television.

I don't even like playing a contentious role.

My forte is playing drunks down the ages. When my agent rings me about a role, I don't ask what the part is, but what century it's in.

I have always viewed my role as a sort of ambassador or bridge between groups to help provide a dialog.

I literally was saved by a role, from becoming a cab driver. I never did have to wait tables, though, so looking back I guess I had it pretty soft.

One result of An American Family was that I became a gay role model.

I had many teachers that were great, positive role models and taught me to be a good person and stand up and be a good man. A lot of the principals they taught me still affect how I act sometimes and it's 30 years later.

You've got to respond to that and of course thinking through the role of a left party in the modern world, in the modern economy and society and having a policy response to that.