Roles Quotes - Page 24

• For me, it doesn't matter whether it's a comedy, a Western or horror. As long as you've got a good story to tell, the genre almost doesn't matter. As an actor playing the role, it's all rooted in reality.

  Patrick Wilson

  Reality, Long, Stories

  Source: collider.com

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• ISIS has brought down a Russian airliner. ISIS has now attacked a western democracy in - in France. And we do have a role in this. Not solely ours, but we must work collaboratively with other nations.

  Martin O'Malley

  Isis, Democracy, France

  The CBS Democratic debate, www.washingtonpost.com. November 15, 2015.

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• Our role in the world is not to roam the globe looking for new dictators to topple. Our role in the world is to make ourselves a beacon of hope. Make ourselves stronger at home, but also our role in the world, yes, is also to confront evil when it rises.

  Martin O'Malley

  Home, Evil, Stronger

  The CBS Democratic debate, www.washingtonpost.com. November 15, 2015.

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• Many of the fights that are going on are not ones that the United States has either started or have a role in. The Shia-- Sunni split, the dictatorships that have suppressed people's aspirations, the increasing globalization without any real safety valve for people to have a better life. We saw that in Egypt. We saw a dictator overthrown, we saw Muslim Brotherhood president installed and then we saw him ousted and the army back.

  Hillary Clinton

  Real, Army, Fighting

  "Democratic debate transcript: Clinton, Sanders, O'Malley in Iowa". www.cbsnews.com. November 14, 2015.

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• There are so many actors that I've worked with that I'd like to work with again and there are so many girls. So often when you're up for a role, you're the only girl, and people think that a positive thing: "You get to be the only girl here!" That's not an exciting kind of idea to me.

  Emily Browning

  Girl, Thinking, Ideas

  "Emily Browning’s East End Girl". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 19, 2015.

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• You want roles that challenge you and that scare you a little and where you can really discover something, even about yourself, that maybe you didn't understand.

  Jamie Dornan

  Challenges, Scare, Want

  Source: collider.com

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• I'm good with all my roles, I've never had a bad role.

  Michael K. Williams

  Source: collider.com

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• I think you're just always trying to find really great, interesting female roles. That's the thing for me. You do have to think about what you're signing up for.

  Georgina Haig

  Thinking, Always Trying, Interesting

  Source: collider.com

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• I had a caricature view of the guy in the beret with the big megaphone­­, but a movie director and writer was beyond my role of understanding.

  J. C. Chandor

  Views, Guy, Understanding

  "Rocking the Boat". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 16, 2013.

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• When you're in your early 20s, a lot of characters can be one or two dimensional. You want a role to substantiate the drama, as opposed to actually analyzing the psychology of a human being. That's what drew me to acting, particularly the contradictions in people.

  Tom Hughes

  Drama, Character, Two

  Source: collider.com

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• I discovered, though, that once having given a pig an enema there is no turning back, no chance of resuming one of life's more stereotyped roles.

  E. B. White

  Pigs, Chance, Given

  E. B. White (2014). “Essays of E. B. White”, p.20, Harper Collins

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• The Supreme Court said nothing about silliness, but I suspect it may play more of a role than one might suppose. People are, if anything, more touchy about being thought silly than they are about being thought unjust... Probably the first slave ship, with Negroes lying in chains on its decks, seemed commonsensical to the owners who operated it and to the planters who patronized it. But such a vessel would not be in the realm of common sense today. The only sense that is common, in the long run, is the sense of change.

  E. B. White

  Running, Lying, Silly

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• So many people have asked me how I could possibly be a role model and dress like a tramp and get implants... all I have to say is that self-esteem is how you look at yourself and I feel good enough about myself so wear that kind of clothing... the breast implant issue has nothing to do with that.

  Britney Spears

  Self Esteem, Issues, People

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• As soon as the mind and mind identification return; you're no longer yourself but a mental image of yourself, and you start playing games and roles again to get your ego needs met.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Playing Games, Ego, Mind

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• I had no expectation of the level of adulation that would come my way. I just wanted to make a living with a regular role in a television series.

  Harrison Ford

  Expectations, Television, Levels

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I'm not a role model, nor have I ever tried to be a role model. The only thing about me as a role model is I've managed to stay here and be working and survive. For 40 years.

  Cher

  Years, Role Models, Models

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• For though we may be the Earth's gardeners, we are also its weeds.  And we won't get anywhere until we come to terms with this crucial ambiguity about our role - that we are at once the problem and the only possible solution to the problem.

  Michael Pollan

  Weed, Earth, May

  Michael Pollan (2007). “Second Nature: A Gardener's Education”, p.115, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• I like the idea of being a role model. It's an honor.

  Tiger Woods

  Ideas, Role Models, Honor

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• The characters I have the least in common with are the ones I have the greatest success with. The further a role is from my own experience, the more I try to deepen it.

  Paul Newman

  Character, Trying, Common

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• In the end, I'm convinced we will all benefit if suspicion is replaced by discussion, innuendo by dialogue; if the emphasis in our debate turns from a search for talismanic criteria and neat but simplistic answers to an honest - more intelligent - attempt at describing the role religion has in our public affairs, and the limits placed on that role.

  Mario Cuomo

  Intelligent, Answers, Benefits

  New York (State). Governor (1983- : Cuomo), Mario Matthew Cuomo (1989). “Public Papers of Governor Mario M. Cuomo, 1984”

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• The role of a librarian is to make sense of the world of information. If that's not a qualification for superhero-dom, what is?

  Nancy Pearl

  Superhero, World, Information

  "An action figure for the books" by Devin Rose, articles.chicagotribune.com. August 3, 2003.

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• The truth is, the older you get, the less variety of parts you are offered. If you're a star and you've spent most of your career being able to take your pick of the litter, you notice when the offers start to diminish. You're too old to play leads, so you're offered the supporting role - but many stars don't want to make that transition. They see it as a sign of symbolic impotence. And that the audience will no longer regard them as a star. I love acting, and I'm not going to determine what I do based on what I fear other people might think. I do what I want to do.

  Dustin Hoffman

  Stars, Thinking, Careers

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• One time in the late '50s, when Peter Finch, Laurence Harvey, and I were all offered the same movie role - the assumption being that we weren't friends - we marched up to producer Dino De Laurentiis's door and declared in unison, 'We don't think we're suitable for the part.'

  Peter O'Toole

  Thinking, Doors, Assumption

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• ...countries don't create economies. It is entrepreneurs and companies that create and revitalize economies. The role of the governments should be to create a nourishing environment for entrepreneurs and companies to flourish, not to get in the way of economic development.

  John Naisbitt

  Country, Government, Entrepreneur

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• Once scouting fully opens its doors to all who desire the same experience that so fully enriched me as a young person, I will be happy to reconsider a role on the advisory board.

  Steven Spielberg

  Doors, Desire, Boards

  "Spielberg: Boy Scouts discriminate". www.cnn.com. April 24, 2001.

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