“It’s unlikely to change – there’s nothing in King Salman’s past as governor of Riyadh for about forty years that suggests that he was particularly a reformer, not on the role of women, not on democratic development. There’s been a rumor in the last couple of days that he said to someone in an e-mail that he’s in favor of a constitutional monarchy, but I would be surprised if the level of repression started to go down … I think the kind of thing that we would view as significant reforms is unlikely.” IfsThinkingYearsKindSaidWould BeLastsPastLevelsViewsRolesDevelopmentCoupleKingsDemocraticFavorsSignificantReformFortyMailGovernorsUnlikelyRumorMonarchyRepressionReformersConstitutional MonarchyRiyadh Author:Elliott Abrams
“I used read about Dr. King a lot as a kid. Independently, from being assigned it or being told by my parents or anything, I was just really excited about him. So I just started reading about him very young and was inspired by his legacy and looked to him as a role model.” KidsYoungUsedReadingParentRolesKingsModelsInspiredExcitedLegacyRole ModelsDrs Author:John Legend
“Just as the good actor perform well whatever role the poet assigns, so too must the good man perform whatever Fortune assigns. For she, says Bion, just like a poet, sometimes assigns the leading role, sometimes that of the supporting role; sometimes that of a king, sometimes that of a beggar. Do not, therefore, being a supporting actor, desire the role of the lead.” MenWellsSometimesDesireActorsRolesPoetKingsFortuneGood ManBeggarGood ActorsSupporting RolesSupporting Actors Author:Bion of Borysthenes
“When I commit to a role, I always tell myself that role is king. That's the Bible. If I start to judge my character, than it's going to influence my performance, and I don't want that. I want to find the truth in the character.” IfsWantCharacterRolesInfluenceJudgingKingsPerformancesCommit Author:Cuba Gooding, Jr.
“They want a race war. We must be peaceful people. They are gonna poke and poke and poke, and our government is going to stand by and let them do it. We must be - we must take the role of Martin Luther King, because I do not believe that Martin Luther King believed in, "Kill all white babies."” PeopleWantBelieveWarGovernmentWhiteRaceRolesBabyKingsPeacefulLutherPoke Author:Glenn Beck
“Theater roles are written by the great masters. The greatest literature that you can possibly know are the theater roles like King Lear, Hamlet, and all of those great roles. So all you do is you dive into these unchallenged roles and see how far you can get, what kind of accolades you can get, and how good you can be in them. In movie roles, you can actually improve them by knowing a lot about your own stage technique, which helps a great deal in the cinema and how you can project inner humor even though the particular dialogue is not necessarily funny, but you can infuse it with humor.” KnowsKindHelpingLiteratureDealsRolesKnowingWrittenStageParticularMastersKingsProjectsTheaterTechniqueDialogueCinemaLearAccolades Author:Christopher Plummer
“I sound like Jesse Jackson or Martin Luther King, but I honestly feel like the world is mature enough. And, for me, I just want to do good roles.” WorldWantFeelsEnoughSoundRolesKingsHonestlyMatureLuther Author:Marlon Wayans
“When I closed in "King Lear" I went into a period of depression for about three weeks, and every actor I've talked to who's ever played a major, major Shakespeare role has done this.” DoneThreeActorsRolesWeekKingsPeriodsMajorsLear Author:Frank Langella
“I was very aware of the legend, from such an early age. Being a Brit, you are so aware of King Arthur, Camelot, Guinevere and Morgan, the witch. Merlin is this mad magician who's cloaked in mystery. It has that mystery about it. And, it's a lead role for a woman that's strong and has a real journey to take.” RealAgeStrongRolesMysteryJourneyKingsMadWitchLegendsMagicianArthurBritsKing ArthurCamelotGuinevere Author:Tamsin Egerton
“I'm not against the FBI investigation in doing a proper role, but I'm against the FBI spying on people like Martin Luther King. I'm against the CIA fighting secret wars and overthrowing government.” PeopleWarGovernmentFightingSecretRolesKingsInvestigationLutherCiaFbi Author:Ron Paul
“"March" was inspired by "Martin Luther King and the Montgomery Story." I actually first heard about that comic from John Lewis, who told me that it played an important role in the movement. And so once he told me about that, it made me start thinking, "Well, why doesn't John Lewis write his own comic book?".” ThinkingWritingFirstsWellsMadeImportantBookStoriesRolesHeardMovementKingsInspiredComicMarchComic BookLutherMontgomery Author:Andrew Aydin
“I changed my major to English and I went off to Fort Collins. And within the first couple of weeks, I noticed that they were having auditions for a production in their theater department. They were going to stage Jean Anouilh's Becket, which was a film I loved, with Peter O'Toole and Richard Burton. So I went down and auditioned, and I got the role. I got the Peter O'Toole part. So here I was, a 19-year-old playing King Henry.” YearsFirstsFilmRolesWeekStageChangedCoupleKingsMajorsTheaterDown AndProductionsDepartmentPeterAuditionsFortsKing Henry Author:Keith Carradine
“Unless you had developed a certain independence of value, a certain independent system of value, a system of values that was independent from this middle-class drive for recognition. This has been my explanation of part of [Martin Luther King] general role. So, he accepted this without too much resistance. In fact, none that I could ever see, and at certain points I was close enough to see something.” Has BeensEnoughFactsCertainValuesClassRolesToo MuchMiddleKingsIndependentIndependenceAcceptedResistanceRecognitionExplanationMiddle ClassLuther Author:Ella Baker
“I believe that it is indeed easier for a woman who follows a male monarch, as it was in my case. There was no role model I had to measure up to. It was clear from the beginning that many things would be different, and that helped. And I hope that the same thing will help my son, Crown Prince Frederik, when he becomes king one day.” BelieveDifferentHelpingWould BeI BelieveRolesCasesClearSonKingsEasierOne DayModelsMalesMy SonRole ModelsCrownsMonarchs Author:Margrethe II of Denmark
“Either Malcolm X or Martin [Luther King] could have played the role of a unifier, but it was - Malcolm as long as he remained within the Nation of Islam, talking to the converted, he did not represent a fundamental threat to the American government.” LongGovernmentNationsTalkingRolesKingsFundamentalsThreatIslamLutherAmerican GovernmentNation Of Islam Author:Manning Marable
“I read Stephen King a lot and I've actually played two roles. Delores Claiborne is my favorite, I think, of any film that I've done.” ThinkingTwoDoneFilmRolesKingsMy Favorite Author:Kathy Bates
“I was a Stephen King fan and I was amazed that I got the chance to play that role and very glad that I did.” PlayChanceRolesFansKingsGladAmazed Author:Kathy Bates
“I think that not only do saints make poor role models, they are incapable in one sense of identifying radically with those of us who are mere mortals. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s mortality says to us that here's a figure who got up every day of his life facing tremendous odds and yet overcame them.” ThinkingPoorRolesFiguresKingsModelsMereSaintMortalsMortalityRole ModelsOddsIncapableLutherIdentifyingMere Mortals Author:Michael Eric Dyson