Famous Quotes & Sayings

Matt Bomer

As actors you're always going to take certain roles that are in your comfort zone and take ones that aren't.

Josh Brolin

When accepting or preparing for a role, fear is the motivating factor.

Kari Matchett

I'm looking forward to a future where there are roles of greater vulnerability and humor involved.

Julia Stiles

I took the role of Ophelia in Hamlet because she is so naive, loving, and innocent.

There were so many things that were wrong (against West Virginia). We just have to re-define our roles a little, do what we have to do and how we can do it.

Dennis Haysbert

I like to think I'm multi-faceted. Actually, my favorite roles are roles like in 'Far from Heaven.' Y'know. Soft people. Loving people.

Jon Heder

I know at some point I would like to take on more dramatic roles.

Jon Hamm

I don't have any sort of calculus in choosing film roles.

Jacob Latimore

I was in a movie called 'Vanishing on 7th Street,' and that was my first leading role in a movie. It's an apocalyptic thriller, and it's really cool. It's the first movie I ever shot.

Louis Pasteur

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

Gloria Stuart

I never had a great role in a great film.

Rachel Weisz

I haven't only been offered Hasidic roles.

Chris Stringer

Our role is to imagine products that don't exist and guide them to life.

Chris Noth

I don't want to be identified by any one role I do.

Jeffrey Jones

So when you make an impression in a certain kind of role, that tends to be the type of role that you get offered.

Jim Gaffigan

I'm getting fat ... as I planned. Luckily, my gut is intentional. I'm actually preparing for a big role. Sure, it's a cinnamon roll.

Jesse James Garrett

I'm not sure that you can say definitively that some roles are better filled by consultants, but I would say that some projects are better handled by consultants

Jesse McCartney

I'm in the gym pretty much every day. I've been very strict about my diet during shooting. It all helps me bring as much authenticity to the role as I can.

Jesse Jackson

I take my role seriously as a pastor.

Jennifer Jason Leigh

I've always done roles that really appealed to me on a gut level and which I found inspiring.

Hannah Arendt

Goodness that comes out of hiding and assumes a public role is no longer good, but corrupt in its own terms and will carry its own corruption wherever it goes.

Jacques Derrida

I became the stage for the great argument between Nietzsche and Rousseau. I was the extra ready to take on all the roles.

Jack Zipes

The role of the storyteller is to awaken the storyteller in others.

J. August Richards

Gunn, like me, has a James Bond obsession. He would love to be James Bond, and it's a great role that I would love to be, someday.

Jennifer Carpenter

I need to make sure that I'm taking roles that I feel like I can communicate through.

Haley Joel Osment

Just keep learning from the role and not just go for the money.

Igor Sikorsky

It would be right to say that the helicopter's role in saving lives represents one of the most glorious pages in the history of human flight.

Mireille Enos

I can't worry about whether roles will be there for me when I'm older. They're there now, and I'm just not going to panic.

I've already sat them down and had the talk, ... They're very up for their new roles this season.

George W. Bush

Bin Laden says his own role is to tell Muslims, quote, 'what is good for them and what is not.'

Randall Munroe

The role of gender in society is the most complicated thing I’ve ever spent a lot of time learning about, and I’ve spent a lot of time learning about quantum mechanics.

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."

Paulo Freire

It is absolutely essential that the oppressed participate in the revolutionary process with an increasingly critical awareness of their role as subjects of the transformation.