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“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

“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

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

Author:Chris Noth

“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

“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 want what's mine. I see other actors who are doing very interesting roles, and I just want to continue to do things that are interesting, and things that people will go see in theaters.”

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Author:Derek Luke

“My roles are in some way like children to me. You don't ever really want to scrape one off your shoe.”

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Author:Diane Lane

“I like to do new things, so I always take on roles that I feel will keep me on my toes. I never want to pigeon myself, so I always like to surprise myself. I believe in versatility and so I would play anything as long as it was a challenge.”

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Author:Archie Panjabi

“My career divides in two: before and after 9/11. In the first part I was trying to show that Islam is relevant to political concerns. If you want to understand Muslims, I argued, you need to understand the role of Islam in their lives. Now that seems obvious.”

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Author:Daniel Pipes

“You should learn to be happy with what you have. Besides, the fact that I'm not a huge star has allowed me to pick and choose the roles I want to do, not the ones some person sitting in a studio office thinks I should do.”

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Author:Aidan Quinn

“I'm at the age where I just want to experiment. You know, play a crime investigator one week, a pregnant girl one week, an angel of darkness another week. I don't want to define myself by any category, or age, or role.”

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Author:Leven Rambin

“I don't have one role that I want to play. I guess... I want to be a producer. I want to be an activist. I want to be proactive in bringing about work for men, women, boys, girls, everybody who is good at what they do and deserve a shot at it.”

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Author:Octavia Spencer

“I want to take roles that challenge me and I want to like the script and obviously feel connected with the director because the director to me is so important.”

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Author:Amy Smart

“Typecasting is an interesting thing because, in a way, if you're good at something, you're going to work at that thing. In other ways, you constantly have to change people's opinion of you as one thing, especially if you want to play different roles. You have to shatter that image sometimes.”

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Author:Aaron Tveit

“Acting is an art form and you want to take roles that are challenged and it's more of a challenge I think to play dark characters. Not that I want to always play those, but it is a challenge and challenges are rewarding and fun.”

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Author:James Franco

“Grace Portolesi is a strong, assertive passionate young woman and she is precisely the sort of person I want in my cabinet and she will have a senior role.”

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Author:Jay Weatherill

“People lament that there's no roles being written for South Asian or Muslim characters. But their parents don't want their children to go into the entertainment field. You don't get it both ways.”

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Author:Aasif Mandvi

“We should be writing more great roles for women, period. Another problem is that movies are generally made for 14-year-old boys, and 14-year-old boys want to watch 25-year-old action heroes.”

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Author:James Mangold

“I feel like as you get older, the roles you get change, and you don't always want to do the same tone over and over again.”

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Author:Vince Vaughn

“I want, through my roles, to express the parts in the hearts of Chinese women that they feel unable to let out.”

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Author:Zhang Ziyi

“I don't mind what the role is at all; I just want to play cool characters.”

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Author:Daniel Cudmore

“Every dad is the family role model, whether he wants the job or not.”

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Book:Staying Close: Stopping the Natural Drift Toward Isolation in Marriage

Source: Staying Close: Stopping the Natural Drift Toward Isolation in Marriage