Famous Quotes & Sayings

Avi Arad

You can have a role in a movie that was originally something minor in terms of screen time, and all of a sudden we see something and go, wow, that's cool.

Brian Tee

I come from a huge theater background. The whole action and stunt world just came as the roles were available.

Brian J. White

The trailblazers are my role models in this industry: Sidney Poitier, Harry Belafonte, James Earl Jones, and Billy Dee Williams. I keep their pictures in my trailer and try to measure to their standards every time I act.

Brian Aldiss

However you envisage your role in life, all you can do is perform it as best you can.

Brendan Fraser

I always approach comedy roles pretending they aren't funny

Miley Cyrus

Hilary Duff has been my role model forever. I went to her concert like right when her music started coming out when I was probably like 11. I was just amazed by her. So now, to be compared to her, it's like...holy moly. It's so cool!

Miley Cyrus

I kind of take Hilary as a role model because she started out at about the same age, she hadn't done much before starting her series, and I haven't either.

Benigno Aquino III

I remove a lot of the pressure from myself by saying I'm not competing with my parents. They are the persons who taught me my ideology. They actively practiced what they preached. They're the exemplars and the role models. So how does one compete with a mentor?

Mahmoud Abbas

We are going to reactivate the role of the PLO.

We are functioning in a support role for the county.

I think the legislation really clarifies the role the two different bodies.

Kelly Hu

There weren't a lot of action roles growing up - there were a few, maybe, like Wonder Woman, but then it wasn't real action.

Shane Victorino

Whatever my role is, I'm going to do my best. It's all I ever wanted.

He has not said what his role was. If he is responsible then he should be booked, and the sooner the better.

If that's the role he wants to give me, I'll just be a scorer.

Adam Sandler

I had my moments of being humiliated, and then I had moments of doing something humiliating. I'm glad I lived out both roles.

Andy Cohen

I didn't have a role model when I was younger.

Donna Mills

You know, when they called me about the role, I thought Knots Landing was a show about a houseboat with Andy Griffith!

Colin Powell

It is not the role of the United States to dictate change, but to enter into discussions with our friends.

Albert Einstein

Intuitive powers played a central role in my scientific work, not wild speculation, yet a valued resource when no other approach was available.

Allyson Felix

Being a role model is a privilege.

Anthony Hopkins

I don't have any [favourite role]. I'm just a working actor.

Amber Tamblyn

Because the role-model pressure becomes so insane, the personal and private takes a backseat to whatever it takes to maintain that fame and to maintain that lifestyle, and before you know it you're not a human being anymore.

Andy Stern

The question is always 'What is the role of a labor movement?' How much is about collective bargaining, how much is about social change for all workers?

Andre Breton

It will in the end, be admitted that everything, in effect is an image and that the least object which has no symbolic role assigned to it is capable of standing for absolutely anything.

Alexa Chung

I'm not preaching about things you should do, I'm not political or anything. I'm probably not the best role model.

Amanda Peet

When I read "The Whole Nine Yards" I was like, 'Okay, this is a G-spot role'.

Christopher Walken

I have always refused to do something that has offended me. I have been offered potential roles that are totally vulgar.

Christopher Mintz-Plasse

It's always the script first choosing roles. [Then] whoever else is attached. I never like to be the first person attached, because I don't really trust what's going on, unless there's a really good director.

Andrea Riseborough

In my case, when you dive into a role, to do well and for you to do well in it, you have to put an enormous amount of faith in the director. But you also have to decide you're so interested in the material, this director, his work, and his process, that you don't care about the outcome.

Claudia Rankine

You become a role model because of what you do as a person. There's a certain point where being a role model might come from standing up for yourself and getting rid of emotion that doesn't belong to you, emotion that is being brought on because of racist actions of others.

Our students need to see role models. We feel very strongly about that.

Hans Blix

Our role is not to humiliate the Iraqis.