Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Kit Harington

When you're a lead role, I'm learning that you set a tone for the movie in a way, like a director does, or like other actors do. But it seems like you set a mood on set.

Kevin Pollak

As rewarding as a good film role can be, there is just nothing like getting up on a stage and taking an audience for a ride.

Idris Elba

I get criticized for taking roles in films like 'Ghost Rider 2', but if you look at my resume, dude, I've mixed it up as much as I can.

Gloria Stuart

I never had a great role in a great film.

Gary Hamel

Over the centuries, religion has become institutionalized, and in the process encrusted with elaborate hierarchies, top-heavy bureaucracies, highly specialized roles and reflexive routines.

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.

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.

Morgan Freeman

I avoid seeing myself while I'm working on role so I won't see "me."

Mila Kunis

I feel like every role you take, there's a part of you that obviously feels like you can do it.

Jordan Gavaris

I love Tom Wilkinson and Tommy Lee Jones as well as Jessica Chastain. But the person I look up to most, not because I identify with her roles but because of who she is as a person, is Sissy Spacek.

Kay Bailey Hutchison

The traditional role of the Senate has been to be the adult in the room.

James Toback

The collaborator has to be someone who understands that his role is to help you articulate what you want, but at the same time is not just going to be mechanically obeying, but adding to, supplementing, and coming up with stuff.

Heath Ledger

It's rare that there's a role that requires an Australian accent.

Helen Mirren

I'm not a republican any more. Not so voraciously anyway - I'm not in favour of the concept of monarchy, but I do see the good in it if there's a good person in the role.

Heather Matarazzo

I don't really prepare for roles. I just kind of do them!

Henry Czerny

I've refused roles because they're too simplistic.

Merle Shain

The conflict between what one is and who one is expected to be touches all of us. And sometimes, rather than reach for what one could be, we choose the comfort of the failed role, preferring to be the victim of circumstance, the person who didn't have a chance.

Michael Arad

I had a dual role: designer and advocate.

Mark Ruffalo

There's a misperception about actors that we actually choose the roles we end up doing - it's more that we're chosen for them.

Emma Roberts

I would die if Woody Allen ever called and said, 'Emma, I have a role for you.'

Emilia Fox

It was certainly a good death scene. I'm endlessly perishing in roles but it's a wonderful thing to be asked to do.

Rachel Weisz

I haven't only been offered Hasidic roles.

Michael Urie

A good role comes along, and a good role is a good role.

Sherilyn Fenn

The studios have their list of five actresses and whether they're right or wrong for a role doesn't matter. It's how much money their last movie made.

John Oliver

It's exciting to have a role in anything that's Claymation, just because you're always intrigued by what a clay wizard version of yourself would be.

Joel McCrea

I turned down as many roles that I thought were beyond my abilities as I did ones I thought weren't good enough.

Garrett Hedlund

I've been told I'm too good looking for certain roles, but that's okay. It just motivates me to go deeper.

Gabrielle Reece

Family and the natural surroundings played a big role in shaping my values.

George Clooney

I am the least qualified person to comment on anyone playing the role of Batman since I so terribly destroyed the part,