Roles Quotes - Page 5

• I'm a character actor. I have to find work in good movies where I can make something of my role. I'm a very lucky guy to be in that kind of position. It's like a kid who dreams of becoming a baseball player and then he gets to play for the Yankees.

  Christopher Walken

  Baseball, Dream, Character

  Source: www.gamesradar.com

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• I decided to become a teacher because I thought it would be a great career where I could wear different hats. You're an academic one moment, and you're a psychologist the next moment, an athlete the next moment... when you are out on the playground or coaching...so it enables you to play different roles.

  Erik Weihenmayer

  Teacher, Athlete, Play

  Source: www.afb.org

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• I'm never really conscious of saying, "I'm going to take on a specific role to combat a certain image in the public eye." I think that's pretty manipulative and transparent to the public anyway.

  Leonardo DiCaprio

  Eye, Thinking, Conscious

  "The Star of Africa". Interview with Joe Utichi, editorial.rottentomatoes.com. January 24, 2007.

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• I'm open to doing any kind of role and any kind of genre as long as it's interesting and as long as I feel it could be a great character to play. I never take into my own personal opinions or my own public image into account when I chose movie roles.

  Leonardo DiCaprio

  Character, Personal Opinions, Play

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• Each time I take a role, I'm always nervous about it at the beginning and I'm always afraid what if that, what if this. Every time I take a role and I'm somewhat terrified at the beginning and I get into it and I start working, that's a big win for me. So, really it is stepping forward in the face of whatever fears that I've created for myself and going forward anyway and those are always big moments for me.

  Ryan Reynolds

  Winning, What If, Faces

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

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• When I read a script, I'll have a very visceral gut reaction to what does this mean to me? How does she feel in my skin? Could I play this role?

  Emily Blunt

  Mean, Play, Skins

  The MoviesOnline Interview, www.moviesonline.ca. 2012.

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• I do try hard to pick roles that differ. I love that about the job. I think the variety that's out there is to be taken advantage of and I enjoy that element of shape shifting with everything.

  Emily Blunt

  Jobs, Taken, Thinking

  The MoviesOnline Interview, www.moviesonline.ca. 2012.

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• I love character roles. I'm happier in them. I look for roles that have some kind of complexity.

  Emily Blunt

  Character, Looks, Kind

  The MoviesOnline Interview, www.moviesonline.ca. 2012.

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• Once you've created a connection of empathy, rational arguments can play a supportive role.

  Nicholas D. Kristof

  Play, Empathy, Supportive

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I also dreamt about finally meeting the leftist Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Žižek. He is a great role model for me.

  Nadezhda Tolokonnikova

  Role Models, Philosopher, Leftists

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• If I am a sex symbol, it's certainly not in the classic sense. I'm opposed to the traditional image of a woman's role.

  Nadezhda Tolokonnikova

  Sex, Classic, Symbols

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• After the war, the Austrians just denied their role in it all. They didn't teach it in school. But since 1990 they have openly acknowledged their role in the Holocaust and I feel more comfortable in Austria. I feel a sort of reconciliation.

  Eric Kandel

  War, School, Holocaust

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Art can play a major role. I look at art as an alternative source of energy, the same way we might look at wind or solar or lithium batteries.

  Saul Williams

  Art, Wind, Play

  Source: www.mtv.com

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• The role that theater has placed in enhancing consciousness and moving systems ahead. I think of what South African theater meant for the apartheid movement, for example. I think of what music has meant for so many social movements across time.

  Saul Williams

  Moving, Thinking, Example

  Source: www.mtv.com

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• I've never really seen myself in the role of the victim.

  Oliver Kahn

  Victim

  "'Goalkeepers Need an Element of Insanity'". Interview with Lothar Gorris and Dirk Kurbjuweit, www.spiegel.de. May 15, 2008.

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• Strippers should be role-models for little girls. If only for the fact that they wax their assholes.

  Sarah Silverman

  Funny, Girl, Humor

  "Sarah Silverman: Jesus Is Magic", www.imdb.com. 2005.

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• It was reported that Guy Ritchie has cast his wife Madonna in a small walk-on role in his new movie, Revolver. Madonna will play the part of the woman who ruins the film.

  Tina Fey

  Funny, Humor, Play

  "Saturday Night Live (TV Series) Robert De Niro/Destiny's Child". www.imdb.com. 2004.

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• President [Ronald] Reagan never has tried to become an expert on military matters. He never has endeavored to learn the most important details in that field, which lead to a situation in which his aides played a much greater roles than aides would have played under President Ford or let us say in the whole Nixon-Ford-Kissinger era.

  Helmut Schmidt

  Military, President, Important

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• People think Paris [Hilton] is a ditzy blond, and I don't want to blow it for her, but she plays it really well. She knows exactly what she's doing. She's actually a pretty smart person. She's very cognizant of what she's doing, and she kind of plays that role, so people think she's some airhead but she's really not.

  Simon Rex

  Smart, Blow, Thinking

  Source: www.mediaite.com

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• I remember reading scripts when I started in the business, and [Latino roles] were either nonexistent or written as the maid or a drug dealer. We're no longer just that. I'll play any part that challenges me. What's important is that all races have choices.

  Eva Mendes

  Reading, Race, Play

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• I suddenly became aware over the last couple of years that I'm in my sixties. I never thought about it. I thought I'd better start acting my age or find roles that are going to be interesting to me in the sexagenarian repertoire, because it's not what you do in your forties or fifties.

  Geoffrey Rush

  Couple, Years, Interesting

  "Toronto Q&A: Geoffrey Rush Dishes on ‘Pirates 5’ and Karaoke Battles". Interview with Brent Lang, variety.com. September 15, 2015.

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• I think the biggest thing that motivates me when I'm choosing a part is a role that will help me continue to grow as a person and as an artist, and a role that will deepen my understanding of humanity, and my connection to it.

  Forest Whitaker

  Artist, Thinking, Understanding

  "Forest Whitaker shares wit, wisdom in discussing latest film". Interview with Kam Williams, www.baystatebanner.com. February 27, 2014.

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• I never acted in anything I've directed but I have produced a number of films and I have acted in some of the movies I've produced. Usually with first time filmmakers and pushing a move forward I have played a small role but never the lead.

  Forest Whitaker

  Moving, Numbers, Firsts

  "Forest Whitaker Interview: 'I Won't Play Crazy Again'". CineMovie Interview, cinemovie.tv. February 21, 2014.

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

  Jon Hamm

  Film, Calculus

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• When you put your costume on and you get your hair and your makeup done [for a role] and you stare in the mirror you feel like a different person.

  Michael Shannon

  Makeup, Mirrors, Hair

  Source: variety.com

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