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.

Well, the important message that we've always carried to China is that we look forward to your progress and prosperity, we look forward to you playing a role in the progress and prosperity of this region and we look forward to stability in your relations with others.

I know that it's a big struggle with a lot of women to dress up - especially now women have been working - because it can be uncomfortable. So it was important to me with my role to make clothes that are slightly more dressed up but easy to wear.

I got the role I loved the most at a point in my career when most women are being phased out.

I also feel I adapted. I was willing to try to fit into any role. The way I figured, it was always up to me to prove my worth, that I deserved to be here.

We want the best actor, and that's why Matt Damon worked so well in this role, because he's a great actor.

The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade in your reality for a role. You give up your ability to feel, and in exchange, put on a mask.

At a time when science plays such a powerful role in the life of society, when the destiny of the whole of mankind may hinge on the results of scientific research, it is incumbent on all scientists to be fully conscious of that role, and conduct themselves accordingly.

The role of the intelligence - that part of us which affirms and denies and formulates opinions is merely to submit.

I started singing for The Phantom in January, and we started filming in October and I sang all the way through to the next June. In fact, I was singing for about two months before I even knew I had the role.

I'm not saying I'm the perfect role model. But I'm honest. Period.

I don't think I'm allowed to talk about that. It is definitely not me. The role has been cast.