Roles Quotes - Page 14

• Honestly, I look at the project and I look at the people attached and I look at the director. If it's a role that I feel will help me, as an actor, then I'll definitely take it.

  Sasha Grey

  People, Actors, Directors

  Source: collider.com

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• One of the most intriguing things in management and in business is the role of storytelling - people need the anecdotes to do the work that they do.

  Anita Roddick

  People, Anecdotes, Needs

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• I'm just glad to get any role... the fact that they're all 90 is neither here nor there! Actually, it was Hook that started it. I think it was Peggy Ashcroft who couldn't do the part and somebody was asked how old was I and would I be able to do the part, and the person replied "92" very quickly. And so I've been stuck ever since! But I'm actually very grateful.

  Maggie Smith

  Grateful, Thinking, Hook

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• With any character, the main objective is to bring authenticity to the role.

  Jesse McCartney

  Character, Authenticity, Objectives

  Source: www.etonline.com

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• 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 McCartney

  Shooting, Helping, Authenticity

  Source: www.etonline.com

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• I came to The United States to see what would happen in 2000 after working for 20 years in Australia and asked my agent to look out for the nasty roles because I'd become famous for playing the nicest man in Australia. So I wanted to play bad guys. But I've been doing that now for 13 years so when I was offered the chance to do some comedy, I grabbed it.

  Alan Dale

  Men, Years, Play

  "Alan Dale: The Nicest Bad Guy in The Biz". Interview with Jarett Wieselman, www.etonline.com. February 6, 2013.

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• I've reprised roles in the theatre, which is somehow more accepted, and where one can automatically go deeper and further into the role.

  Cate Blanchett

  Theatre, Accepted, Deeper

  "Elizabeth: The Golden Age - Cate Blanchett interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• With a role like Hedda Gabler, which is incredibly complicated, you often feel that you haven't even scratched the surface the first time around, so you relish the opportunity to do it again, particularly with an ensemble of actors and the company we assembled. But when you do that in films you somehow have to make some attempt to uncross people's arms and you have to justify why you're doing it.

  Cate Blanchett

  Opportunity, People, Ensemble

  "Elizabeth: The Golden Age - Cate Blanchett interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• No, it’s very comforting actually, to know that you’re sitting in a long legacy of actresses who’ve played the role. I’m absolutely all for absorbing all of those influences, so you understand the pedigree of the part as much as you understand the figure in history… because you are playing the part. You don’t say: “Gosh, I want to play Peter Sellers…” because you can sort of do that in your own bathroom.

  Cate Blanchett

  Play, Long, Comforting

  "Elizabeth: The Golden Age - Cate Blanchett interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• I think you're peripatetic when you work in this industry. My husband and I are assuming the role of co-artistic directors at the Sydney Theatre Company in 2008. But as long as the film industry will have me, I will have it.

  Cate Blanchett

  Husband, Thinking, Long

  "Notes On A Scandal - Cate Blanchett interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• I got a phone call from George Miller [the director] asking me to play this role. We sat down and he showed me on his computer a documentary-type montage sequence of real penguins swimming, in an Esther Williams synchronized sort of way, and doing things I have never seen them do. Then he explained his vision of the film, asked me to read the script and to voice the character. I was cast a little bit later, and he let me do the singing as well!

  Brittany Murphy

  Real, Character, Swimming

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• The Alessi relationship and the Target one has broadened the role of architects in society and broadened the concept that design belongs to everyone.

  Michael Graves

  Design, Target, Architect

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• One of the great things about rap music... it leaves a lot to be desired, as far as I'm concerned, musically, but I do recognize the very important place that it has in music and in creating role models for younger kids to emulate, giving them the dream that they can make it out of whatever situation they're in.

  Graham Nash

  Dream, Rap, Kids

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• The bureaucratic manager, the consuming aesthete, the therapist, the protester and their numerous kindred occupy almost all the available culturally recognizable roles, the notions of the expertise of the few and of the moral agency of everyone are the presuppositions of the dramas which those characters enact. To cry out that the emperor had no clothes on was at least to pick on one man only to the amusement of everyone else; to declare that almost everyone is dressed in rags is much less likely to be popular.

  Alasdair MacIntyre

  Drama, Character, Men

  Alasdair MacIntyre (2013). “After Virtue”, p.298, A&C Black

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• The primary role of professional societies is the lobbying of the government for special advantage

  Richard Lindzen

  Government, Special, Lobbying

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• These days, information is a commodity being sold. And designers-including the newly defined subset of information designers and information architects-have a responsible role to play. We are interpreters, not merely translators, between sender and receiver. What we say and how we say it makes a difference. If we want to speak to people, we need to know their language. In order to design for understanding, we need to understand design.

  Erik Spiekermann

  Order, Play, Differences

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• The role of the comedian is to say 'Wait a minute' when a consensus starts to form.

  Bill Hicks

  Waiting, Comedian, Form

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• This game is repeated again and again, and in it the role of the so-called 'German princes' is just as miserable as that of the Jews themselves. These lords were really God's punishment for their beloved peoples and find their parallels only in the various ministers of the present time.

  Adolf Hitler

  Punishment, Games, Beloved

  Adolf Hitler (1971). “Mein Kampf”, Mariner Books

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• If I was a nightingale I would sing like a nightingale; if a swan, like a swan. But since I am a rational creature my role is to praise God.

  Epictetus

  Swans, Praise, Rational

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• I am a firm believer that you need a well-defined leadership role to deal with unexpected and non-linear side effects of people working together. You need someone to keep the threads untangled and forming a high-functioning web rather than a big snarl of a Gordian knot.

  Rands

  People, Working Together, Needs

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• The teacher must adopt the role of facilitator not content provider.

  Lev S. Vygotsky

  Teacher, Providers

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• The role of a trainer or consultant is to empower the customer, not to make himself indispensable

  Bertrand Meyer

  Empowering, Indispensable, Trainers

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• The military preferred - invariably - those who could be readily defined, assigned roles, understood, and controlled.

  Guy Gavriel Kay

  Military, Understood, Controlled

  Guy Gavriel Kay (2010). “Under Heaven”, p.80, Penguin

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• Because when does anybody really grow up? I mean, I feel more grown up now, more in a place of solidity and peace. But I think a lot of people take on these roles as parents, or husband or wife, and immediately think 'That's it. I'm grown up now. Done.'

  Priscilla Ahn

  Growing Up, Husband, Mean

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• There was a solid year and a half, perhaps two years, after making 'Temple Grandin,' when I didn't do anything. I just didn't have much patience for roles that were silly, or light, or inconsequential.

  Claire Danes

  Silly, Light, Years

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