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When women get great roles in life, they start to get great roles in films and TV. Look at Janet Reno, Madeleine Albright, and Mrs. Thatcher. Because those images are coming at us in life, they are reflected in acting. -- Helen Mirren
No role in life is more important than to be a good mother. -- James Cook
However you envisage your role in life, all you can do is perform it as best you can. -- Brian Aldiss
Our role in life is to bring the light of our own souls to the dim places around us. -- Joan D. Chittister
The world wants to assign you a role in life. And once you accept that role you are doomed. -- Robert Greene
I surely know that there is no role in life more essential and more eternal than that of motherhood. -- M. Russell Ballard
No one spiritual path is better than another, although one may accept the universe's role in life more than another. -- Meredith L. Young-Sowers
I did this role in Life Goes On as an HIV positive character and so emotionally that was the most challenging. -- Chad Lowe
My role in life is that of the grain of sand to the oyster-it irritates the oyster and out comes a pearl. -- Ross Perot
Like most of us, I'm used to juggling about 52 roles in life. Wife. Mother. Sister. Friend. Author. Sometimes I feel a bit 'multiple-personality'. -- Sophie Kinsella
I never fit in. I am a true alternative. And I love being the outcast. That's my role in life, to be an outcast. -- Meat Loaf
Perhaps the most important vision of all is develop a sense of self, a sense of your own destiny, a sense of unique mission and role in life. -- Stephen Covey
Identity is your role in life, the part you play. Individuality is who you are, and who you are is revealed to you if you can get to complete presence. -- Tom Spanbauer
Our schools have been scientifically designed to prevent over-education from happening. The average American [should be] content with their humble role in life, because they're not tempted to think about any other role. -- William Torrey Harris
I was a girl in a land where rifles are fired in celebration of a son, while daughters are hidden away behind a curtain, their role in life simply to prepare food and give birth to children. -- Malala Yousafzai
There must be a world revolution which puts an end to all materialistic conditions hindering woman from performing her natural role in life and driving her to carry out man's duties in order to be equal in rights. -- Muammar al-Gaddafi
I see myself as mom first. I'm so lucky to have that role in life. The world can like me, hate me or fall apart around me and at least I wake up with my kids and I'm happy. -- Angelina Jolie
We are not clear as to the role in life of these chemicals; nor are we clear as to the role of the physician. You know, of course, that in ancient times there was no clear distinction between priest and physician. -- Alan Watts
Women have been brought up to be passive, accepting, not come forward and play a major role in life. And with age, there's a tendency to revert to that - to pull back, recede. I don't think it's advisable or admirable. -- Katherine Helmond
the term 'young adults' which is so often used today seems to me a misnomer, and one which, if taken seriously, may lead the adolescent into misunderstanding as to his nature and his role in life. 'Young" he is; 'adult' he is not. -- Eleanor Roosevelt
Email is a wonderful thing for people whose role in life is to be on top of things. But not for me; my role is to be on the bottom of things. What I do takes long hours of studying and uninterruptible concentration. -- Donald Knuth
If we want to be women of contentment, we must choose to accept our portion, our assigned roles from God. We must make the choice to dwell on the positive aspects of our role in life. If we don't we'll be discontent, always wanting something different from what we've been given. -- Linda Dillow
Being a mom is really the greatest role in my life. -- Kim Fields
Actors always want to play the villain role at least once in their life. -- Lee Byung-hun
Context and memory play powerful roles in all the truly great meals in one's life. -- Anthony Bourdain
I have spent many years of my life in opposition, and I rather like the role. -- Eleanor Roosevelt
Music plays a very important role in my life. I'm a frustrated musician. I play the drums. -- Ronald Perelman
Moms, you are the first and most influential role model in your girl's life. Use that power. -- Tyra Banks
I don't think you should do things in your personal life differently because you're a role model. -- Shannen Doherty
I like coming to the United States because the United States played an important role in my life. -- Mstislav Rostropovich
I've long been really intrigued with what is the... proper role of faith and religion in public life. -- Gene Robinson
It's much easier to play supporting roles because that's what I do in my life: I support my son. -- Frances McDormand
But I'm trying to play into this role as much as possible and be a nicer person in real life. -- Fisher Stevens
The University of South Carolina has always played a role in my life and the intellectual life of South Carolina. -- Pat Conroy
It is not sex by itself that interests me, but its particular role in American consciousness, and in my own life. -- Jerzy Kosinski
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Definitely when you get handed roles like Joel in 'The Last of Us,' that's something that will change your life, and I learned so much from that role. -- Troy Baker
I think how Chicago plays a role in my life - it had such a role in my youth and the decisions that I made as a kid and formulated who I am as an artist early on. -- Kaskade
In the movies, they make you look good and tough, but in real life, it's completely the opposite. I do these ueber roles, I think, because in real life I'm quite shy and reserved. In real life, I'm a dork. -- Sam Worthington
In fact, the element of play has an important role in my life, and I think that should be the case in the life of every artist. Our life is occupied with playing, whether we play an instrument or a role. -- Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
That the role of size has been to some degree neglected in biology may lie in its simplicity. Size may be a property that affects all of life, but it seems pallid compared to the matter which makes up life. Yet size is an aspect of the living that plays a remarkable, overreaching role that affects life's matter in all its aspects. -- John Tyler Bonner
It's weird when you get roles that coincide with your life. -- Lily James
I want roles that challenge people to question where they are in life. -- Maggie Gyllenhaal
There's no time in life to do all the roles I'd like to play. -- Bruce Dern
I've spent all my life playing roles that illustrious people have played before me. -- Geraldine McEwan
Essentially, I'm a small-part actor who's been lucky enough to play leading roles for most of his life. -- Alec Guinness
If there are no other wonderful roles that come my way, I have a quite an interesting, dynamic life. -- Karen Allen
My life and work are not separate. I just have more roles than other people. And I have photographs. -- Nikki S. Lee
The roles... the deep roles that I've gotten to play have turned my course. They've changed my life experience. -- Sally Field
I only take on roles that I'm passionate about. Life is too short to do things that you're not happy with. -- Helen Clark
Of course men play roles, but women play roles too, blanker ones. They have, in the play of life, fewer good lines. -- Iris Murdoch
A person who is inherently and intuitively curious is often intellectually and distinctly very serious towards his roles and responsibilities in life. -- Anuj
Earn by your efficiency and enthusiasm, The right to play higher and higher roles ,That is the meaning and purpose of life. -- Sathya Sai Baba
Maybe because Im a nice and sweet person in life, I like the darker roles. The really dark one is Lady Macbeth. -- Anna Netrebko
Maybe because I'm a nice and sweet person in life, I like the darker roles. The really dark one is Lady Macbeth. -- Anna Netrebko
In my life and in my career, I really love to play different roles. I never want to play the same role twice. -- Ksenia Solo
I've never really played everyday people. I've played realist roles, but not mere daily life. There was always something incredible happening to my characters. -- Sandrine Bonnaire
Ive never really played everyday people. Ive played realist roles, but not mere daily life. There was always something incredible happening to my characters -- Sandrine Bonnaire
In the end, we are not the roles we play. We are the light that animates every soul in the dance we call life. -- Alan Cohen
I do think that what's wonderful in life is that we gain perspective as we take on different roles that are mind and heart opening. -- Uma Thurman
After many of years of getting cast in sweet, angelic roles, I'm finally getting to play closer to my real life as a horrible person. -- Justin Kirk
You know, I consistently change in my own life so the roles I'm suitable for also change, and that's a really nice thing about this profession. -- Chris Klein
Understanding that what it is that you're doing isn't limited to the roles and the rejection, it's bigger than that, it's about your purpose in life. -- Aisha Hinds
I discovered, though, that once having given a pig an enema there is no turning back, no chance of resuming one of life's more stereotyped roles. -- E. B. White
The idea of "making art for art's sake" makes no sense for me. Each area of my life, all the roles I play, influences the others. -- Ben Sollee
Girls see these defined roles they're supposed to follow in life, but when I was a young child, my parents told me I could be anything. -- Joan Jett
I try not to confuse roles and traits in my own life. Being the Perl god is a role. Being a stubborn cuss is a trait. -- Larry Wall
The life of an actor is very hard irrespective of the continent you are in. It is doubly hard when you are only eligible for minority roles. -- Kabir Bedi
I have played so many romantic roles that I don't know if I am really a romantic in real life. I get confused about the real me. -- Dhanush
I love it when you ask actors, 'What are you Doing now?' and they say 'I'm between roles'. To be living 'life between roles' that's my favorite -- Andy Warhol
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
We all have roles in life. I'm a dad, a husband, this and that, but basically I only feel justified in being alive when I'm on the stage. -- Jack Bruce
When you're asking about roles for men and women, men certainly have a longer shelf life. Men can play the sexy lead for 20 years longer than we can. -- Jennifer Lawrence
In all my songs, I take on roles and play characters. It's a unique way to explore ideas and decisions I might not think or make in real life. -- Jack White
I have been blessed with roles that allow me to express something very personal at a specific time in my life. I seek them out; acting is my therapy. -- Victoria Clark
There's different girls in my life that play different roles and I see at different times, but collectively they kind of make up the roster of happiness for me. -- Drake
In Hollywood, you're always playing roles... It's like going through the motions. But in real life, it's like, you gotta take care of business. It's not just the movies. -- Mickey Rourke

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