Famous Quotes & Sayings

Patrick Stewart

As the captain, I was going to be having the dominant role in most of the episodes, and that was appealing. I wasn't interested in coming to Hollywood to sit around.

Louis Pasteur

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

Maya Angelou

Each of us, famous or infamous, is a role model for somebody, and if we aren't, we should behave as though we are -- cheerful, kind, loving, courteous. Because you can be sure someone is watching and taking deliberate and diligent notes.

Max von Sydow

I accept a role only if it's something I really, really like

Owen Wilson

I definitely would like to do some more dramatic roles.

Philip Selway

I've always been very happy with my role in Radiohead. You're very much a part of everything, but you're much more of a shadowy figure.

Persis Khambatta

If there is an exotic woman it's always a terrorist role.

Renee Fleming

I learned so many roles so quickly as a young singer, I thought it was time to come back to them and make them better - deeper, more nuanced.

Robert Lanza

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

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.

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."

Treat Williams

Honestly, I didn't know I was a role model.

Wentworth Miller

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.

Ryan Reynolds

'Green Lantern' I screen-tested for twice. I fought for the role. And I'm glad I did, because I felt like I earned it.

Wayne Dyer

Simply be the qualities you seek in others.

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.

Vin Diesel

The films that I do are deep, introspective, brooding roles that you're in this heavy headspace all the time.

Vin Diesel

If it's an amazing role, I'll do anything.

Victor Garber

Thank goodness I started getting movie roles and then television shows came along. So I was very fortunate to be able to do all three and I like all of them.

Sam Kinison

Obviously I'm not a role model for impressionable youth.

Susan Sarandon

It's still not easy to find roles that offer more complex images of women.

Peter Fonda

I know I'm responsible for not having got the kind of roles that I'd have liked to.

Paz Vega

I want to have roles in English.