Famous Quotes & Sayings

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

Jamie Campbell Bower

I feel responsible for certain fans, but I've never said I'm a role model.

Jamie Fellner

Prisons are woefully ill-equipped for their current role as the nations primary mental health facilities.

Denis Waitley

The world needs role models, instead of critics.

Ed Speleers

I want to go to the extremes and transformation is something I'm fascinated by. At the same time, you can transform but you can only really put what you've got inside you into somebody, so there's always going to be a degree of you inhabiting any role.

Elizabeth Pena

Every time I work with a European director, I find they hire the person that captures the spirit of the role. Americans tend to hire the best face. The person that looks more like the role, whether they can perform the role or not is a bonus.

Alan Watts

The role of the Guru is to show the person that he already has what he is looking for.

Alan Autry

I am convinced that your Mayor must take the leadership role in education too.

Catherine Deneuve

I choose my roles carefully.

Cary Elwes

I take away something from every role.

Cary Elwes

I take away something from every role. I'm still learning and that's what life is about.

Caroline Kennedy

Well, the role of money in politics is pretty corrupting right now.

Caitlin Moran

I was brought up in the '80s. I was born in 1975. So by the time I got to 10 and I kind of knew that I probably was going to have to be a grown-up lady at some point, the feminine role models that I had were kind of the cast of "Dynasty" and "Dallas." And I just found that terrifying.

Cathy Freeman

I like looking feminine and I enjoy being a role model. I enjoy being a woman. It all comes down to having the confidence to be who you are.

Chris Burke

I'd like to be the role model to teach other people who have Down's syndrome to be actors and actresses and to be themselves and not try to be a big shot.

Chloe Grace Moretz

You go up for hundreds, thousands of roles, and you get told no, no, no, so many times.

Chip Conley

Companies and leaders are role models - not just with the business community - but in the broader world.

Charles Hermite

In mathematics our role is more that of servant than master.

Bipasha Basu

I would never put on 20 kilos and mess up my system because a role demands it. Hindi cinema doesn't offer you roles that get you an Oscar, anyway. Tom Hanks can do it in Hollywood; not us.

Vladimir Putin

U.S. society doesn't want to play the role of international policeman.

With my size, and I'm not much a jumper, I'm a spot-up shooter. That's been kind of my role throughout the year, and that's what it was tonight.

Ben Roethlisberger

We know we're going to be the underdogs and we probably like that role a little more.

We have so many young players. My role is to keep them focused. That's not always easy. But we must be doing something right.

When we come together and know our roles and play the way we should play, this is what happens.

Brent Sexton

To me, any character that is conflicted inside as well as outside of themselves is always a better role to play.

Ben Foster

The roles I'm interested in or have been interested in, you know, it's going to get down to conflict. Drama is conflict - conflict of interests.

Sergei Ivanov has the back-up role of someone who can be called upon if Medvedev 'blows up'.

Mike Ferguson

Their role on the world stage is huge.

John Tortorella

They care. Let me make sure you understand that. If we're going to get points, they have to be on that (score) sheet. They know what their role should be. They're just not getting it done right now.

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.