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Random Roles? Oh, I saw Virginia Madsen do this the other day! You see? I'm paying attention! -- Rob Lowe
Roles written for women are so much more complex on television. The film world is becoming quite flimsy for women. -- Julianna Margulies
TV, in particular cable channels, has assumed the role of independent film. -- Eric Stoltz
Fashion is like a party. Getting dressed is preparing to play a role. -- Yves Saint Laurent
Context and memory play powerful roles in all the truly great meals in one's life. -- Anthony Bourdain
Every individual matters. Every individual has a role to play. Every individual makes a difference. -- Jane Goodall
I surely know that there is no role in life more essential and more eternal than that of motherhood. -- M. Russell Ballard
It cannot be too greatly emphasized that the most important role in pawn endings is played by the king. -- Siegbert Tarrasch
Better to have a small role in God's story than to cast yourself as the lead in your own fiction. -- lecrae
Doing something for yourself like running, and using it to test yourself, will only make you feel better about your career or your family role. -- Joan Benoit
A team is not a bunch of people with job titles, but a congregation of individuals, each of whom has a role that is understood by other members. -- Meredith Belbin
I am keen on helping Indian bowlers but I am not seeking a full-time role. But yes I am really keen on helping out pace bowlers across the world, -- Brett Lee
Our stories come from our lives and from the playwright's pen, the mind of the actor, the roles we create, the artistry of life itself and the quest for peace. -- Maya Angelou
As the heated debate continues, it will be important that nonproliferation experts play a critical role in the discourse. Science-based statements, not snarky sound bites, should be the weapons of choice. -- David Corn
Without education, your children can never really meet the challenges they will face. So it's very important to give children education and explain that they should play a role for their country. -- Nelson Mandela
First of all, I choose the great roles, and if none of these come, I choose the mediocre ones, and if they don't come, I choose the ones that pay the rent. -- Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
Internationally, President Obama has adopted an appeasement strategy. He believes America's role as leader in the world is a thing of the past. I believe a strong America must - and will - lead the future. -- Mitt Romney
The greatest legacy is that which benefits the widest number of people for the longest period without limit to value. No one but the Prophet Muhammad was given that role as the seal of God's message. -- Cat Stevens
I don't think the relationship between novels and realities are one to one. Of course novels play different roles. It's essentially just a long narrative form. What you use that long narrative form for can be very different. -- Margaret Atwood
My role in society, or any artist's or poet's role, is to try and express what we all feel. Not to tell people how to feel. Not as a preacher, not as a leader, but as a reflection of us all. -- John Lennon
The Ego, however, is not who you really are. The ego is your self-image; it is your social mask; it is the role you are playing. Your social mask thrives on approval. It wants control, and it is sustained by power, because it lives in fear. -- Deepak Chopra
As a Jew, it is my historic responsibility to defend the Jewish people. I feel this responsibility for the survival of the Jewish people. We're not going to accept any decision by anybody else about security of the State of Israel. It is our role and only our role. -- Ariel Sharon
It's really hard to get stories made that are about women. Not just women being obsessed with men, or supporting men. And it's really hard to get men to be a part of films that are about women in a leading role. I'm really interested in how we can adjust that. -- Olivia Wilde
The proper role of government is exactly what John Stuart Mill said in the middle of the nineteenth century in On Liberty. The proper role of government is to prevent other people from harming an individual. Government, he said, never has any right to interfere with an individual for that individual's own good. -- Milton Friedman
If you're a woman, it's almost impossible to establish a relationship. You're too much for everybody. It's too much. The woman always has to play this role of being fragile and dependent. And if you're not, they're fascinated by you, but only for a little while. And then they want to change you and crush you. And then they leave. -- Marina Abramovic
I realized that people had an unreal image of me, that somehow I was a god on Mount Olympus. I decided that if I were going to make use of my role as a Supreme Court Justice, it would be to inspire people to realize that, first, I was just like them and second, if I could do it, so could they. -- Sonia Sotomayor
I was never a pretty girl, so I wasn't the one to get the boy. I used to cast myself as a good sport. Sometimes I wonder if I do that too much with roles I play, because if I'm absolutely truthful, I quite like being the best friend, or the supporting role, and actually I ought to gear-change and make myself the leading role. -- Celia Imrie
I like to originate new roles and characters for musical theater. -- Idina Menzel
People told me I couldn't kill Nicholson, so I cast him in two roles and killed him off twice. -- Tim Burton
I have done all kinds of roles, but Tony Montana's role in 'Scarface' is something I would love to play. -- Sanjay Dutt
I definitely don't look my age. So I actively look for roles that will help people change their perception of me. -- Elijah Wood
I became the stage for the great argument between Nietzsche and Rousseau. I was the extra ready to take on all the roles. -- Jacques Derrida
The essence of my work, and of me, is the softer side of a strong woman, and that goes into a number of different roles. -- Dee Wallace
People are incapable of stereotyping you; you stereotype yourself because you're the one who accepts roles that put you in this rut or in this stereotype. -- Eva Mendes
I don't want to be in a position where I'm playing roles I'm comfortable with and making money, but doing it without feeling like I'm growing. -- Rodrigo Santoro
I always get offered the pretty, popular girl roles, but I want to do something dark, really challenge myself and get out of my comfort level. -- Ashley Benson
I guess I'm attracted to these off beat roles because my life has been a bit abnormal. The only thing I have a problem with is being labeled. -- Johnny Depp
Once I got married and had kids, I moved away from romantic roles, because it seemed wrong to have my three-year-old wondering why Daddy was kissing someone else. -- Chevy Chase
I've had disappointments and heartbreaks and setbacks and roles I didn't get, but something always came along that either made me better or was an even better role. -- Lee Majors
Among my activities was membership in the Boy Scouts; I rose each year through the ranks, eventually achieving the rank of Eagle Scout and undertaking leadership roles in the organization. -- Frederick Reines
Actors do tend to get pigeonholed. People want to know who you are so they can put you in a box. It's lovely to be known for such diametrically opposite roles. -- Tom Hiddleston
Every actress has to face the facts there are younger, more beautiful girls right behind you. Once you've gone beyond the vanity of the business, you'll take on the tough roles. -- Jean Simmons
I don't mind being identified as any character as long as I'm doing a good job as an actor. I have done all kinds of roles - from an editor, judge, police officer, murderer to a corrupt businessman. -- Boman Irani
I am not an angel and do not pretend to be. That is not one of my roles. But I am not the devil either. I am a woman and a serious artist, and I would like so to be judged. -- Maria Callas
Playing good girls in the 30s was difficult, when the fad was to play bad girls. Actually I think playing bad girls is a bore; I have always had more luck with good girl roles because they require more from an actress. -- Olivia De Havilland
I've been quite lucky in that I've managed to tick off a few of my dream roles, really. Beyond that, you wait for the next script to come in that will have the dream role that you don't know exists yet, I suppose. -- David Tennant
So as long as I'm a working actor, I can improve. I want to work with people that frighten me and excite me, and characters that I don't believe I'm the best person for the part but I'm still gonna try anyway. Those are my favorite roles. -- Anne Hathaway
The roles of art, morality, religion, political faith, science itself are not to repair organic exhaustion nor to provide sound functioning of the organs. All this supraphysical life is built and expanded not because of the demands of the cosmic environment but because of the demands of the social environment. -- Emile Durkheim
I like to do new things, so I always take on roles that I feel will keep me on my toes. I never want to pigeon myself, so I always like to surprise myself. I believe in versatility and so I would play anything as long as it was a challenge. -- Archie Panjabi
Well, this is an unfortunate part of the UN institution. It's the - the theater of the absurd. It doesn't only cast Israel as the villain; it often casts real villains in leading roles: Gadhafi's Libya chaired the UN Commission on Human Rights; Saddam's Iraq headed the UN Committee on Disarmament. -- Benjamin Netanyahu
We've never thought too deeply about the roles things like forgetting or partisanship or inefficiency or ambiguity or hypocrisy play in our political or social life. It's been impossible to get rid of them, so we took them for granted, and we kind of thought, naively, that they're always the enemy. -- Evgeny Morozov
I don't think I ever expected anything like an Oscar ever, to tell you the truth. That is not my motivation when I do these roles. I really am motivated by being able to work with great people and create a body of work that I can look back and be proud of. -- Leonardo DiCaprio
The way I look at - speaking as a woman - I understand what it means to be a daughter, and to be a wife, and to be a mother, and also to be a career woman. The multiple roles that women can play in a society if given the opportunity is really a tremendous asset. -- Margaret Chan
I love playing odd roles. -- Aaron Paul
I choose my roles carefully. -- Catherine Deneuve
I'm always attracted to anti-hero roles. -- Peter Dinklage
I've had some physically challenging roles. -- Morris Chestnut
I choose roles that are not me. -- January Jones
I want to have roles in English. -- Paz Vega
I play a huge variety of roles. -- Casper Van Dien
Some roles have been with me forever -- Benicio Del Toro
I play a huge variety of roles -- Casper Van Dien
I've refused roles because they're too simplistic. -- Henry Czerny
I haven't only been offered Hasidic roles. -- Rachel Weisz
Women are responsible for creating their own roles. -- Kathleen Turner
In planning an attack, persons have various roles. -- Robert Mueller
Women are responsible for creating their own roles -- Kathleen Turner
Experience matters for some roles and not others. -- Sam Altman
I'm 51 now, so there are less roles available. -- Sherilyn Fenn
There just arent that many Jesus roles around. -- Jeffrey Hunter
I'm always trying to look for different roles. -- Eric Close
I have never been interested in specific roles. -- Estelle
There are not many good roles for women. -- Eva Green
I would be happy to play any roles. -- Madeline Zima
I had two roles for which I compromised. -- Sidney Poitier
Not all roles you do can be chocolate sweet. -- Kabir Bedi
Music has as many roles as people make it. -- Ani DiFranco
You become megastars when superstars start reprising your roles. -- Mithun Chakraborty
I always approach comedy roles pretending they aren't funny -- Brendan Fraser
When dogs fulfill their roles they are ecstatically happy. -- Robert Crais
I'm wildly impressed with the diversity of gay roles. -- Neil Patrick Harris
I try to avoid typecasting by doing different roles. -- Michael Clarke Duncan
You don't get the good roles when you're beautiful. -- Eva Longoria
I played teen roles until high definition came out. -- Selma Blair
I do so many roles, I can't be typecast. -- Tommy Davidson
Who are we beyond the roles that we play? -- Joan Anderson
When dogs fulfill their roles they are ecstatically happy." -- Robert Crais
I don't choose roles. I go where I'm wanted. -- Robert Englund
I like roles that people don't recognize me in. -- Penelope Cruz
I'm a warrior when it comes to pursuing roles. -- Daniel Day-Lewis
I only take on roles that I'm passionate about. -- Helen Clark
I love roles where I have to transform myself. -- Archie Panjabi
As an actress I take roles I find interesting. -- Emma Watson
I find it hard to do small roles sometimes. -- Robert Taylor
I definitely would like to do some more dramatic roles. -- Owen Wilson
I want to constantly be surprising people with different roles. -- Emma Roberts
A thinker reverses roles and sees the perspectives of others. -- James Cook
Actors donâ??t retire. They just get offered fewer roles. -- David Niven
I can't do victim roles - it makes me sick. -- Robin McLeavy
I'll ask you if you can play some speaking roles. -- Donald Wolfit
Physical roles give me a chance to learn something new. -- Zoe Saldana
Female roles in comedies are usually quite silly, I think. -- Naomi Watts
I've stayed away from sexy roles. It's never interested me. -- Carmen Ejogo
There are not many roles where women are really active. -- Kathleen Quinlan
I get to do interesting roles and make a living. -- Aidan Quinn
A lot of the times, roles are chosen for us. -- John Noble
It's hard to win awards if there are no roles. -- Darnell M. Hunt
I'm blessed to have cool roles in these big movies. -- Jeremy Renner
I want to do all roles. The skys the limit. -- Gabby Douglas
What I'm normally associated with are darker, more brooding roles. -- Kelly Macdonald
Good roles are hard to find no matter what age. -- Glenn Close
I've been honoured to portray such intelligent and sophisticated roles. -- Mia Wasikowska
I just try to play more and more difficult roles. -- Michael Caine
Masculine and feminine roles are not biologically fixed but socially constructed. -- Judith Butler
But it is not conscious strategy to go for unconventional roles. -- Anil Kapoor
Certainly, old age is often incompatible with certain roles and responsibilities. -- Luca Cordero di Montezemolo
people share a common nature but are trained in gender roles. -- Lillie Devereux Blake
I like dark, dramatic roles; they're just really powerful and real. -- Daveigh Chase
I don't really have preferred roles except those with some complexity. -- Richard Roxburgh
I always look for reality. I look for plain truthful roles. -- Jim Caviezel

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