“I usually feel like the role comes to you to sort of illuminate some piece of where you are in your life. I feel like I myself am a single woman and I'm childless - by choice - at this point, and I don't know what will happen.” KnowsFeelsHappensChoicesRolesPiecesWhere You AreSingle Women Author:Sarah Paulson
“Pain is pain, joy is joy - you can't avoid bringing pieces of yourself into a role.” PainJoyRolesPieces Author:Joshua Leonard
“I'm a fool for a good role in a creative piece where there are really such talented writers and wonderful actors.” ActorsRolesCreativePiecesWonderfulFool Author:Sissy Spacek
“I give myself different roles. I think in different ways on different days. Sometimes I think of it as cooking - different flavors and different ingredients. Sometimes I think of it like orchestrating a piece of music with all the different instruments.” ThinkingWayGivingDifferentSometimesRolesPiecesInstrumentsCookingDifferent WaysIngredientsFlavorDifferent Day Author:Joe Bradley
“The role of leadership is to transform the complex situation into small pieces and prioritize them.” LeadershipSituationRolesPiecesComplexesPrioritizeSmall Pieces Author:Carlos Ghosn
“In recent times it just seems that women have been relegated to either romantic roles or fluff pieces. So the appeal, for me, is to make a picture about a real woman.” Has BeensRealSeemsRolesPiecesAppealsReal WomenFluff Author:Clint Eastwood
“For women to be supplying the soldiery with banners, flannel shirts and other material comforts was, superficially, all of a piece with their ministrations to their menfolk at home. Such contributions to the war effort were socially acceptable because they could be seen as an extension into the military sphere of the traditional female virtues of charity, nurture and needlework. Yet in reality what the women were doing represented the thin end of a far more radical wedge. Consciously or not, these female patriots were staking out a civic role for themselves. And many of them relished it.” WarEndsHomeRealityEffortRolesVirtuePiecesMilitaryMaterialsComfortFemaleCharityTraditionalRadicalShirtsContributionSpheresAcceptablePatriotNurtureExtensionsCivicsBannerBritish HistoryWedgesFlannelsNeedlework Author:Linda Colley
“As a pianist, our particular role is to enter a piece and its logic and create a particular interpretation from our understanding. The most important thing for the performer is, after all, to create a special atmosphere - we enter the composer's feelings and emotions and recreate them freshly for a given audience.” ImportantFeelingsGivenUnderstandingEmotionRolesAudiencePiecesSpecialParticularLogicImportant ThingsAtmosphereInterpretationPerformersComposerFeelings And EmotionsPianist Author:Rafal Blechacz
“I surround myself with inspirational quotations. This easy-to-follow piece of advice has played a huge role in my being able to get past my own fears and insecurities throughout my entrepreneurial career.” MotivationalAblePastMotivationEasyMy OwnCareersRolesPiecesAdviceHugeInsecuritySurroundQuotationsEntrepreneurial Book:Start Something That Matters Source: Start Something That Matters
“As an actor, you always want to find a piece of who you are in every role you take on.” WantActorsRolesPiecesWho You Are Author:Larenz Tate
“I think every time you take on a new role, you're trying to help find that voice and you add your own bits and pieces along the way but with Noah [Baumbach] it's already done.” ThinkingWayTryingDoneHelpingBitsVoiceRolesPiecesAddBits And Pieces Author:Naomi Watts
“I definitely am looking to do some more dramatic roles; I'd love to do a period piece. I'm just getting started; I feel like there's a whole wealth of options out there to try my hand at.” FeelsTryingWholeHandsWealthRolesPiecesPeriodsDramaticGetting Started Author:Mandy Moore
“There's material that I read that I fall in love with, and I always get a little bit sad because I know that, when I fall in love with it, almost everyone else is falling in love with that same piece. Getting the crack at doing that thing that, in my soul, I know I have to do it, that's the role.” KnowsLittlesSoulFallBitsRolesPiecesMaterialsLittle BitFalling In LoveMy SoulCracksI Fall In Love Author:Emmanuelle Chriqui
“That's my way in the very beginning - how to enter it [a role]. Very quickly in the process, I don't think about voice being separate from the way you hold your head or the way you sit or the way you put on lipstick. It's all a piece of a person, and it's all driven by conviction.” ThinkingWayPersonsProcessVoiceRolesPiecesConvictionDrivenMy WayLipstick Author:Meryl Streep