Roles Quotes - Page 37

• People tend to believe that good fortune consists of equal parts talent, hard work, and sheer luck. It's hard to deny the roles of the latter two. As to talent, I would only say it consists primarily in finding the right moment to step in.

  Jack McDevitt

  Believe, Hard Work, Two

  Jack McDevitt (2003). “Chindi”, p.27, Penguin

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• To be a movie star, you have to carry a movie. And to carry a movie where you play the title role is the supreme example.

  Michael Caine

  Stars, Play, Titles

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

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• I never bring a role home with me. The moment they say, 'It's a wrap,' it's gone completely. I'm a totally ruthless professional, and life is my family, not my work.

  Michael Caine

  Home, Gone, Life Is

  "This much I know". Interview with John Hind, www.theguardian.com. September 12, 2009.

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• The higher orders [of angels] are presumed to be closer in their nature to God and to function in roles that serve God more directly than the lower orders, which tend to the administration of the physical universe and the service of humankind. Some orders are associated with particular divine qualities - Seraphim with Love, Cherubim with Wisdom, Thrones with Judgment.

  David Connolly

  Angel, Order, Quality

  David Connolly (1993). “In Search of Angels: A Celestial Sourcebook for Beginning Your Journey”, Perigee

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• Angels play a very active role in the purposes of God and the affairs of men, but do not control human events or violate the free will of human beings.

  Gary Kinnaman

  Angel, Men, Play

  Gary Kinnaman (1994). “Angels Dark and Light”

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• I'd like to create a role on Broadway. That would really heighten my senses.

  Jamie Farr

  Broadway, Senses

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• I'm not in a position where I get to pick and choose roles. I usually go on auditions in long lines and embarrass myself in front of casting directors, and with a lump in my throat and my ears burning, I walk past reception and smirking actors as I go to the parking garage and go back on the highway.

  Henry Rollins

  Past, Long, Directors

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• I've grown up with girls that are like Precious. I've grown up with people that are like everyone that I read about in that book. And so years later, when I was given the role, I just felt a huge responsibility to show the reality of that situation and to show that we're not making it up.

  Gabourey Sidibe

  Girl, Book, Responsibility

  "Gabourey Sidibe, From 'Precious' To 'AfroPop'". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. January 31, 2013.

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• It's so weird to turn on a switch and be the role model for all women, for all African-Americans. That doesn't happen that easily. It does not. So I don't act up in public and don't do anything weird, because my sisters are watching me. Not because the world is watching me.

  Gabourey Sidibe

  Role Models, African American, World

  "Actor Gabby Sidibe Proves to Be The Girl for Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire". Interview with Brad Balfour, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 3, 2009.

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• Why people pick me for the roles that they do is a bit of a mystery.

  John C. Reilly

  People, Mystery, Pick Me

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• The reason prophets are so rarely honored in their own country is that their role is to transcend the limits of their contemporaries' experience and imagination. They achieve recognition only when their vision has been turned into experience - in short, when it is too late to benefit from their foresight.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Country, Imagination, Vision

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• I was fortunate to love men, so I could put them on stage and make roles for them, and move through their bodies in a way that they enjoy doing...

  Twyla Tharp

  Moving, Men, Body

  "The High Priestess of Creative Movement". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 25, 1993.

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• In the Indian film industry, especially those of us who are in mainstream cinema, we invariably play a typical hero's role. More often than not, we cater to the public perception. However, there is a latent desire in most actors to do a role where you can go all out and experiment.

  Abhishek Bachchan

  Hero, Play, Perception

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• An actor is supposed to emulate life. Instead, alas, many are imitating other actors. You don't fashion your knowledge of theatre or your approach to a role on the basis of what other actors have done. This kind of thinking is a great danger, especially in dealing with TV producers who frequently say things like, 'This is a Sean Connery type.'

  Theodore Bikel

  Fashion, Thinking, Theatre

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• I hope we shall see more ande more women combining marriage and a career. Prejudice against this dual role is not confined to men. I regret to say, it comes from our own sex.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Sex, Regret, Men

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• 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.

  Andre Breton

  Ends, Symbolic, Standing

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• Look, when people came after me for doing 'Indecent Proposal' or 'Disclosure,' I thought, 'Ridiculous.' These people are trying to limit me as an actor. Are they saying I can't play these roles? Well, I've proved I can.

  Demi Moore

  Play, People, Trying

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• Photography today is accomplishing a lofty mission in which every German should collaborate by buying a camera. The German people is ahead of every other in the technical domain and, thanks to its exceptional qualities, the small camera has conquered the whole world... Much is at stake here from the point of view of popular consumer goods and, furthermore, photography has a particularly important political role to play. (Addressing the Berlin Photography Fair, 1933)

  Joseph Goebbels

  Photography, Views, Play

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• They took 3-D digital photographs of my entire body. I had to pose stark naked, assuming a kind of Spider-Man position. After a minute, one of the technicians pointed to my genitals and said, Um, we're not getting enough data there ... It wasn't what you think. It turns out that the fancy digital camera doesn't pick up dark areas too well, and they were having trouble because of the hair down there. I actually had to spray on this highlighter stuff. (On having digital photos taken for the invisible man role in the film Hollow Man)

  Kevin Bacon

  Taken, Dark, Thinking

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• It's funny - more people talk about my 'babe-dom' now than they did before I had a child. Whatever. I guess I'm a role model in hot pants now. That's cool!

  Lauryn Hill

  Children, People, Role Models

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• Just look carefully, I only want you to look carefully. Do not repeat the lies of liars. Do not become like them. Once again, I blame al-Jazeera before it ascertains what takes place. Please, make sure of what you say and do not play such a role.

  Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

  Liars, Lying, Play

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• My role models are Bettie Page and Mia Kirshner. Every day when Mia comes to work she raises the bar for us all.

  Jennifer Beals

  Role Models, Bars, Mia

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• Something I learned in the Marine Corps that I've applied to acting is, one, taking direction, and then working with a group of people to accomplish a mission and knowing your role within that team.

  Adam Driver

  Team, Marine, Knowing

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

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• Why do a crappy film role when you can do a meaty stage role? and ...I'm not small and curvy and I don't fit the prerequiste for small, passive, sexy chicks.

  Nicole Kidman

  Sexy, Film, Fit

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• I think many people, especially from other cultures, just don't understand the role hair plays in Black women's lives.

  Solange Knowles

  Thinking, Hair, Other Cultures

  "Exclusive: Solange Knowles Shares Her Natural Hair Secrets" by Corynne Corbett, www.essence.com. May 31, 2012.

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