Top Roles Quotes Collection

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Image of Max von Sydow
I accept a role only if it's something I really, really like
- Max von Sydow
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Image of Louis Pasteur
The role of the infinitely small in nature is infinitely great.
- Louis Pasteur
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Image of Jack Zipes
The role of the storyteller is to awaken the storyteller in others.
- Jack Zipes
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Image of Randall Munroe
The role of gender in society is the most complicated thing I’ve ever spent a lot of time learning about, and I’ve spent a lot of time learning about quantum mechanics.
- Randall Munroe
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Image of Robert Greene
The world wants to assign you a role in life. And once you accept that role you are doomed.
- Robert Greene
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Image of Sheila Heti
I do feel it. And I've felt it my whole life, that the supernatural has a role in the world.
- Sheila Heti
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Image of Jessica Mitford
Society created the prison in its own image; will history, with its penchant for paradox, reverse those roles?
- Jessica Mitford
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Image of Kathleen Turner
The best role is always ahead.
- Kathleen Turner
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Image of Nicholas A. Christakis
There are very fundamental reasons we live our lives in social networks and if we really understood the role they're playing in our society we would take better care of social networks and find ways to take advantage of their power to improve our society.
- Nicholas A. Christakis
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Image of Portia de Rossi
I didn't understand that playing roles in any relationship is false and will inevitably lead to the relationship's collapse. No one can be any one thing all the time.
- Portia de Rossi
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Image of Rufus Sewell
I'm not fussy about the medium I work in. I'll do television radio, you know. I have to, because that's the only way I can do continually good roles.
- Rufus Sewell
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Image of Bradley Whitford
When you act, you're always playing a version of yourself. You can't bring more to the role than what you are
- Bradley Whitford
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Image of David Riesman
If anything remains more or less unchanged, it will be the role of women.
- David Riesman
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Image of Josh Brolin
When accepting or preparing for a role, fear is the motivating factor.
- Josh Brolin
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Image of Cicely Tyson
When I attack a role, be it TV, film or stage, the first thing I say is, I don't want to know anything. If it's good I don't want to hear it; if it's bad I don't want to hear it. The only thing either thing can do is distract me. I like to stay focused
- Cicely Tyson
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Image of Marlon Wayans
Whatever role I do, I've got to do the work. It all starts with the body. Get that ready and everything else follows.
- Marlon Wayans
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Image of Priyanka Chopra
The harder [role] the better. Definitely. When somebody turns around and says, "She can't do that," then that's the one I want to do.
- Priyanka Chopra
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Image of Luke Evans
Sometimes it's not about the size of your role, it's about the machine that you're part of.
- Luke Evans
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Image of Luke Evans
If you look weird, you can blame the role, you know? So no one's going to tell me I'm having a mid-life crisis.
- Luke Evans
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Image of Sophia Amoruso
I’ve been wondering for a while now if the CEO role is one that I want – and the one that I’m best at.
- Sophia Amoruso
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Image of Will Arnett
When I was in my 20s, I wanted to go after dramatic roles, and I didn't have a tremendous amount of success with that.
- Will Arnett
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Image of Helen Clark
I only take on roles that I'm passionate about.
- Helen Clark
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Image of Jerome Bettis
It's one of those things when you are in a role you have to do what they ask you to do. If they want me to come in and stick it in, I have to come in and stick it in.
- Jerome Bettis
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Image of Edgar Schein
I am defining leadership in terms of the role, not the position.
- Edgar Schein
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Image of Michael Keaton
I'm willing to be representative. I'm just an actor. I'm just playing a role, so even if it is a person I do not like, I would do that.
- Michael Keaton
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Image of Jacob Needleman
What is [the role of money] in the search for meaning? Is our relationship to it one of the chief factors that keeps us in our prison, or could it also be a tool for breaking out, for awakening to a life filled with intensity of purpose?
- Jacob Needleman
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Image of Max Roach
I always resented the role of a drummer as nothing more than a subservient figure.
- Max Roach
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Image of Judith Lynne Hanna
Dance therapy provides an outlet for energy and a safe and playful environment in which many areas of conflict can be identified and worked through, and appropriate adult roles and behavior tried out.
- Judith Lynne Hanna
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Image of Alan Tudyk
This movie [Moana] has a very small cast, and this was the role [Heihei] that they offered me. I loved voicing him.
- Alan Tudyk
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Image of Brian Aldiss
However you envisage your role in life, all you can do is perform it as best you can.
- Brian Aldiss
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Image of Miranda Otto
As an actor, I would call it a role where you get to stretch out a bit.
- Miranda Otto
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Image of Robert T. Bakker
The public image of dinosaurs is tainted by extinction. It's hard to accept dinosaurs as a success when they are all dead. But the fact of ultimate extinction should not make us overlook the absolutely unsurpassed role dinosaurs played in the history of life.
- Robert T. Bakker
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Image of Henry Makow
Paradoxically, when females reject the male, they usurp the masculine role and abandon the feminine one.
- Henry Makow
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Image of Rosanna Arquette
It's not fair that there aren't very many juicy or varied roles for women
- Rosanna Arquette
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Image of Alden Ehrenreich
I buy myself a present whenever I don't get a role that I really wanted.
- Alden Ehrenreich
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Image of Laraine Day
MGM never really gave me a break. They loaned me out for leading roles, but cast me in programme pictures.
- Laraine Day
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Image of Jonny Lee Miller
The whole point of being an actor is to get satisfaction out of a role -- unless you're just vain about celebrity. You're always looking for the one thing that will surprise you.
- Jonny Lee Miller
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Image of Asa Butterfield
For every role you get, there are five roles that you don't.
- Asa Butterfield
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Image of 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.
- J. August Richards
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Image of Bob Gunton
Among the roles Ive played on stage, television and in films were politicos as diverse as Abe Lincoln, Juan Peron, Herman Goering, George Wallace and both Roosevelts.
- Bob Gunton
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Image of W. Edwards Deming
Eighty-five percent of the reasons for failure are deficiencies in the systems and process rather than the employee. The role of management is to change the process rather than badgering individuals to do better.
- W. Edwards Deming
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Image of Jesse James Garrett
I'm not sure that you can say definitively that some roles are better filled by consultants, but I would say that some projects are better handled by consultants.
- Jesse James Garrett
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Image of June Allyson
The role of Barbara, in Music for Millions, was literally a tonic for me
- June Allyson
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Image of Laurie Penny
The fact that ‘attention seeking’ is still considered a slur says much about the role of women in public life, on every scale.
- Laurie Penny
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Image of Richard Kind
When an actor is offered a role, more often than not - maybe 90 percent of the time - you read it and you say, "I'll take it."
- Richard Kind
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Image of Jennifer Westfeldt
As an actor, I've always been interested in making sure I can perform the role and the lines in the way the writer intended.
- Jennifer Westfeldt
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Image of Bob Buckhorn
The governor has a role in terms of declaring a state of emergency.
- Bob Buckhorn
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Image of V. S. Pritchett
It is the role of the poet to look at what is happening in the world and to know that quite other things are happening.
- V. S. Pritchett
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Image of Ronny Cox
Even though these days I'm very selective about what roles I want to do, I will do Stargate anytime they call.
- Ronny Cox
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Image of Isabelle Huppert
Some roles are easier to choose, some roles are more difficult because they are more daring. Sometimes you have to dare.
- Isabelle Huppert
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