Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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.

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.

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.

Aaron Paul

I love playing odd roles.

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.

Jason Clarke

I can't complain about the roles that have come my way.

January Jones

I choose roles that are not me.

Caroline Williams

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

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.

Channing Tatum

No one's calling me for lawyer roles. I still have a lot to do to prove myself.

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.

Edward Said

And in this relentlessly unfolding series of interactions, the U.S. has played a very distinctive role, which most Americans have been either shielded from or simply unaware of.

Jerry Only

We have a problem now with parents stealing their kids' CDs, so the roles have been reversed.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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?

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.

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.'