Famous Quotes & Sayings

Margaret J. Wheatley

For us, someone who is willing to step forward and help is much more courageous than someone who is merely fulfilling the role.

Morgan Freeman

I avoid seeing myself while I'm working on role so I won't see "me."

Mila Kunis

I feel like every role you take, there's a part of you that obviously feels like you can do it.

Lisa Leslie

I don't really consider myself a celebrity. I consider myself more of a role model.

Johnny Depp

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.

James Iha

Well, I always hope that I'm a role model.

Lamar Odom

I'm a role model. I have overcome the negativity, and I'm playing.

Jacob Latimore

I was in a movie called 'Vanishing on 7th Street,' and that was my first leading role in a movie. It's an apocalyptic thriller, and it's really cool. It's the first movie I ever shot.

Jon Heder

I know at some point I would like to take on more dramatic roles.

Jon Hamm

I don't have any sort of calculus in choosing film roles.

Louis Pasteur

The role of the infinitely small in nature is infinitely great.

Tadao Ando

There is a role and function for beauty in our time.

Rosanna Arquette

It's not fair that there aren't very many juicy or varied roles for women

Stephanie Szostak

I started with commercials - for shampoo, pancakes, insurance, Volvo. I did a Lux soap commercial with Sarah Jessica Parker. And I got a role in an indie film called Satellite that did well in festivals.

Sophie Ellis-Bextor

My parents are good role models because they've worked hard and gave me a happy childhood.

Stephen Bayley

That's one of the things about getting older isn't it? You suddenly realise that you are what you set out to be. And there are no role models any more.

Thomas G. Stemberg

The role of private equity as fiduciaries is certainly to make money.

William James

Each of us is in fact what he is almost exclusively by virtue of his imitative-ness.

Sarah Palin

I cherish the accomplishments of Margaret Thatcher and will always count her as one of my role models.

Robert Mueller

In planning an attack, persons have various roles.

Robert Lanza

Until we recognize the essential role of biology, our attempts to truly unify the universe will remain a train to nowhere.

Rob Lowe

I'll be a role model on my terms, but don't make a role model on your terms.

Rob Lowe

I happen to be a movie star, but I'm not saying, "Hey, I'm a role model. Imitate me."

Ricki Lake

I was this role model for heavy people. But the thing is, I never set out to be a role model at all, and I don't set out to be one now. I won't preach to anyone and tell them how to lose weight. I don't know any better than the next person.

Ricki Lake

I never set out to be a role model for large women, I just do what I feel is right.

Rebecca De Mornay

I've never committed to a role without a script.

Richard Roxburgh

I don't really have preferred roles except those with some complexity.

Richard Schiff

I've been very lucky not to have turned down too many roles that I've later regretted.

Richard Kind

When an actor is offered a role, more often than not - maybe 90 percent of the time - you read it and you say, "I'll take it."

Sandra Bullock

I was always longing to do, emotionally and physically, what my male counterparts always got to do. I just felt envious, every time I saw a movie that I was in awe of, and it was usually a male lead. And those kinds of roles weren't available. They just weren't being written.

Roger Ebert

No movie featuring either Harry Dean Stanton or M. Emmet Walsh in a supporting role can be altogether bad.

Sara Ramirez

I'm glad to be a role model, but beyond that I'm a flawed human being, someone who continues to deal with my body image and what my purpose is on the planet.

Will Arnett

When I was in my 20s, I wanted to go after dramatic roles, and I didn't have a tremendous amount of success with that.