Famous Quotes & Sayings

Persis Khambatta

If there is an exotic woman it's always a terrorist role.

Sheryl Sandberg

If more women are in leadership roles, we'll stop assuming they shouldn't be.

Taylor Swift

I would love to sign on to do a movie if it was the right role and if it was the right script, because I would be taking time away from music to tell a big grand story, and spend all of my time and pouring all of my emotions into being someone else. So for me to do that, it would have to be a story worth telling.

Taraji P. Henson

I like to disappear in my roles because I don't have an assistant.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt

It's worth paying attention to the roles that are sort of dictated to us and that we don't have to fit into those roles. We can be anybody we wanna be.

Kyra Sedgwick

Whether it be in a small movie or a big movie, I would always be attracted to this role.

Peter Fonda

I know I'm responsible for not having got the kind of roles that I'd have liked to.

Paz Vega

I want to have roles in English.

Phylicia Rashad

A person can be big, because of spirit. A person can be big because of their position in the family, the hierarchy in the family. That role has been played by women who are quite thin.

Jason Katims

Any show I'm working on, I want the stories to always be about something, and to have the potential to be emotional. That's the kind of story that I like.

Michael Ende

But that is another story and shall be told another time.

Michael Azerrad

I just wanted to tell the story of a bunch of musicians who had never had their story told before. There's no preaching or theorizing.

Ray Bradbury

Most of my short stories are fantasy.

Ray Bradbury

You let the story cool off and then, instead of rewriting it, you relive it.

Ray Bradbury

Comic strips introduced me to metaphors. They are pure metaphor, so you learn how to tell a story with symbols, which is a very valuable thing to learn. And I learned that from motion pictures, too, and from poetry. Poetry is mainly metaphor. If it doesn't have a metaphor, it doesn't work.

Ray Bradbury

There are a lot of wonderful women writers who would be good influences on writers. You've got to spread yourself out and educate yourself with all kinds of stories.

Shane Carruth

My favorite films are the ones that I walk away from and I know I saw a story.

Sean Bean

Everyone was very deeply involved in the world of 'The Lord of the Rings'. From the wardrobe department to lighting, all were fascinated with the story. This is something that does not happen usually.