Best Roles Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“The point is the 'me' that you see before you is not the 'me' in my private little space, shape-shifting into the writing role, nor is it the 'me' that works with the actors. Here, at the end of the film doing interviews, I feel like I'm in disguise.”

Feels Writing Littles Ends Film Actors Space Roles Shapes Interviews Disguise Shifting

Author:Julia Leigh

“In the deaf community, in order to play a role of someone with a hearing loss... you have to have hearing loss.”

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Author:Katie Leclerc

“I'm just trying to find a good project. Work with a good director, someone I really admire. Find a good role.”

Trying Roles Directors Projects Admire Good Directors

Author:Logan Lerman

“I generally play villains once every three or four years by choice because I get offered villainous roles a lot, because of the way I look and whatever. And I tend to avoid them because I think you can end up in a cul-de-sac of your own making if you're cast in that.”

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Author:Kevin McKidd

“It's a wonderful way to have a role on a series - you're not tied down totally and completely to a schedule.”

Way Roles Wonderful Series Tied Schedules

Author:Lee Meriwether

“I love doing every role I do!”

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Author:Malcolm McDowell

“I'm very blessed that I get to dabble in both music and movies, and as long as people are willing to accept me in both roles, I'll be there.”

People Long Accepting Roles Willing Blessed Accept Me

Author:Mandy Moore

“Any actress will tell you, when you've been given a starring role in the initial run of a show, you want to be getting the standing ovations every night, not just on review night.”

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Author:Martine McCutcheon

“I think you have to be careful not to do too much as yourself. Otherwise you stop getting the acting roles, and at the end of the day that's what I love.”

Thinking Ends Acting Roles Too Much Careful The End Of The Day Be Careful And At The End Of The Day

Author:Martine McCutcheon

“I didn't think I could be my imperfect self. I pretended I was Marcia, so I was always playing this role. I became her, but yet I wasn't. It's strange.”

Thinking Self Roles Strange Imperfect

Author:Maureen McCormick

“Read Churchill, he tells you how crucial was the Greek role in your decisive desert victory over Rommel.”

Roles Victory Desert Greek Crucial Rommel

Author:Melina Mercouri

“American power confers benefits on most inhabitants of the planet, even on many who dislike it and some who actively oppose it, because the United States plays a major, constructive, and historically unprecedented role in the world.”

World States Play United Roles United States Planets Benefits Majors Dislike Constructive Unprecedented American Power

Book:The Frugal Superpower: America's Global Leadership in a Cash-Strapped Era

Source: The Frugal Superpower: America's Global Leadership in a Cash-Strapped Era

“Actors will change their face, will change their hair, will change their voice, will disappear into the role. A movie star doesn't disappear.”

Faces Actors Stars Voice Roles Hair Disappear Movie Star

Author:Nicholas Meyer

“The one thing that's closest to my story is the thing about trying out for the juvenile delinquent role and getting it. That was the start of my acting career... which I've resumed, by the way.”

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Author:Paul Mazursky

“If you're going to play a prostitute, you can't be too squeamish about that sort of thing. It's just part of the job, since the role requires it.”

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Author:Paula Malcomson

“We are all equal children before our mother; and India asks each one of us, in whatsoever role we play in the complex drama of nation-building, to do our duty with integrity, commitment and unflinching loyalty to the values enshrined in our Constitution.”

Children Play Mother Values Asks Nations Roles Building Duty Integrity Drama Equal Commitment India Constitution Complexes Loyalty Nation Building

Author:Pranab Mukherjee

“In our generation, the role models were Gandhi and Nehru. We revered them. They were venerated personalities. I read almost every speech of Nehru.”

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Author:Pranab Mukherjee

“I'm a technician. I don't go for the get-into-the-role stuff. I read the lines and play the scenes.”

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Author:Jodie Foster

“I've never committed to a role without a script.”

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Author:Rebecca De Mornay

“I realise that every time my face is on TV or I'm playing in a tournament, that I am a role model for a lot of people and a lot of kids do look up to me. I try to do my best in that regard and put myself across as honestly and as modestly as possible, as well.”

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Author:Rory McIlroy

“I like strong, strong women who don't go down without a fight. I like iconic roles. They don't come around very often, so I have to wait for them. Obviously I'm not the typical blonde who stands by the side, while the man has all the fun.”

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Author:Rose McGowan

“Just the title of 'American Idol' is something that people can look up to. I'm not Saint Scott, I'm not Mr. Perfect, but I want to be that role model.”

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Author:Scotty McCreery

“There are some older women out there who are just knockouts, real beauties, and they're not getting the roles they should.”

Should Real Roles Older Women Real Beauty Knockouts

Author:William H. Macy

“I never had trouble getting an agent. I went out and got my first couple roles, and literally within six months I never had to have another job other than acting.”

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Author:Dean Norris

“Creating a role is an interesting thing - each show or each situation is different.”

Different Shows Interesting Situation Roles Creating Interesting Things

Author:Bebe Neuwirth

“Most people know that forests are the lungs of our planet, literally playing a critical role in every breath we take. And that they're also home to incredible animals like the orangutan and elephant, which will go extinct if we keep cutting down their forests.”

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Author:Chris Noth

“I don't want to be identified by any one role I do.”

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Author:Chris Noth

“You think once you've shown what you can do, and your movies have been successful, that snap, you work. So to discover the difference between guys' roles and girls' roles made me plain mad. It's unjust.”

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Author:Connie Nielsen

“could be a star and maybe make lots of money, or I could change roles all the time and have a more interesting - and longer - career.”

Stars Interesting Careers Roles Lots Of Money

Author:Franco Nero

“The arts can play a vital role in revitalizing neighborhoods, using and improving vacant space, bringing new jobs and new sense of opportunity, and improving public safety by generating more foot traffic and more eyes on the street.”

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Author:Gavin Newsom

“There's sort of a very symbiotic thing that happens on good TV shows with great writers, which is that they start to sort of embrace who the actors are and try to make the roles more specific to what they bring and what they can do.”

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Author:Lucas Neff

“That's what I like about acting. When you're preparing for a role, you do your research, and the bonus is you get to learn these skills. Now, it's on to whatever the next thing is I have to learn.”

Next Acting Roles Skills Research Preparing Bonus

Author:Parminder Nagra

“The focus of my research is how secular movements originated in West Asian countries and subsequently changed to pan-Islamic movements. The role of Western countries in this aspect is also a part of the research.”

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Author:Taslima Nasrin

“The first audition my manger sent me on was 'The Hunger Games,' and I got the role.”

Firsts Games Roles Hunger Auditions

Author:Dayo Okeniyi

“I don't really give much thought to the roles that I'd ideally love to play.”

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Author:Dylan O'Brien

“I'm never offered any sort of roles. I need to audition in a typically lengthy process to receive roles.”

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Author:Dylan O'Brien

“The Palestinians are facing a historic junction at which they will have to decide whether they want to remain stuck in a corner of extreme fundamentalism, which will cut them off from the entire world, or whether they are ready to take the necessary steps. My role is to assist in building this process.”

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Author:Ehud Olmert

“Just keep learning from the role and not just go for the money.”

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Author:Haley Joel Osment

“My dad never told me that when you audition, you might not get the role. He wanted to wait until my first disappointment to tell me.”

Firsts Might Wanted Waiting Roles Dad My Dad Disappointment Auditions

Author:Haley Joel Osment

“For me, choice is the most important thing because I'm going to be an adult actor pretty soon. So I've got to be choosing the right roles now so that by the time I get to that age there will be wide options available.”

Important Age Choices Actors Roles Adults Important Things Available Wide

Author:Haley Joel Osment

“Even on the greatest teams, there's always one role player.”

Roles Player Team

Author:Keith Olbermann

“I'm not much like my mother; that role falls to my brothers, who have more of her blithe and freewheeling spirit.”

Spirit Mother Fall Roles Brother My Brother Blithe

Author:Meghan O'Rourke

“To play a role where you get to reveal intellectual change is wonderful.”

Play Roles Wonderful Intellectual

Author:Richard O'Brien

“I can get a better role in TV and work more constantly than I can waiting around for my friends in Canada to call me every four years - which they do - and I go up there and play a leading role.”

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Author:Sandra Oh

“I think the roles in television are better for women right now. At this point, I don't want to continue doing the same things I've been doing in film because it's very limited.”

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Author:Sandra Oh

“I have done a few roles that I've never watched, and if I happen to be flicking through channels and one pops up, I quickly move on. It's hard enough to sustain some self confidence without being reminded of things we'd rather not revisit but, in the end, it comes with the territory.”

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Author:Terry O'Quinn

“I so rarely turned down a role, that I can't say I have any regrets in that regard. There were many roles that I would rather not have done, but having a home and family requires that we sometimes do things we would rather not.”

I Can Sometimes Done Home Roles Regret Regard Turned Down Home And Family

Author:Terry O'Quinn

“All the things you can do to prepare for a role that free you, in the moment, are great. You have this muscle memory for things. You don't have to act it as much, once you've done it enough.”

Done Enough Moments Can Do Memories Roles Muscles Muscle Memory

Author:Josh Peck

“In many ways, I feel like having the opportunity to play Gogol in 'The Namesake' really was my dream role in many ways.”

Way Feels Play Dream Opportunity Roles Namesake Gogol

Author:Kal Penn

“As rewarding as a good film role can be, there is just nothing like getting up on a stage and taking an audience for a ride.”

Film Roles Audience Stage Good Films

Author:Kevin Pollak

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