Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bela Lugosi

Of all the roles I've done on the stage, I'm partial to Cyrano de Bergerac.

Asa Butterfield

For every role you get, there are five roles that you don't.

Boman Irani

I was overjoyed when I was offered the title role in 'Well Done Abba.' I was ready for the role even before I heard the story because you don't ask questions when it is Shyam Benegal's film. It is the chance of a lifetime.

Boman Irani

I just love to work and spend time with my family. And that's the reason I don't look at the length of the role, but what it has to offer me.

Bradley Whitford

When you act, you're always playing a version of yourself. You can't bring more to the role than what you are

Bruce Lee

Stop wasting time in playing a role or a concept. Instead, learn to ACTUALIZE YOURSELF, your potential.

Benedict Cumberbatch

Landing the role of Stephen Hawking was the most positively surprising thing that has happened to me.

Romeo Miller

I didn't even dance at my high school prom, and I have turned down so many movie roles because I didn't know how to dance.

Caroline Williams

Now we all know what our roles are now, each person. we're all working together better.

Charlotte Rampling

I don't want to play everything. So I'll seek out roles that I'll say, 'This is edgy. This is fun. This is wicked. This suits me.'

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.

I only started singing the Russian roles when I came west.

Campbell Scott

I'm not always angry. In fact, I think I usually go out of my way to try to find roles that don't seem to be like me.

I just want to keep at it. I can't wait to see, after years of being around, the roles I can play when I'm a crazy old lady.

Laura Osnes

That's the joy of getting to be an actor - getting to play all kinds of different roles and showing so many different sides of yourself.

Nancy Marchand

I wasn't a glamour-puss, and there were more interesting roles for an actress like me in the theater and in live television.

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.

Carroll Quigley

In fact, violence as a symbol of our growing irrationality has had an increasing role in activity for its own sake, when no possible justification could be made that the activity was seeking to resolve a problem.

Cathy Rigby

I will jump into most any role.

Arsene Wenger

If you don't question the officials' role then you've got to ask what they are doing

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.

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.

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.

Aaron Paul

I love playing odd roles.

Annie Leibovitz

The subjects felt more comfortable if they played the role than if they had to be themselves.

Daniel Kahneman

We are prone to overestimate how much we understand about the world and to underestimate the role of chance in events.

Corin Nemec

Every role varies greatly, just as emotions vary greatly.

Daniel Tosh

If you offer me a starring role in a movie, I have no interest.

Anthony Hopkins

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

Darlene Cates

Im not opposed to doing science fiction or comedy, but there has to be respect. I refuse to be the joke, the fat woman joke, in any movie. Ive turned down roles.

Colin Firth

And that is a hard route for a woman to come through. There's still a lot of roles that have to be conformed to. It's quite an old fashioned environment in a lot of ways.

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?