Famous Quotes & Sayings

January Jones

I choose roles that are not me.

Miley Cyrus

They're not role models. So for me it was a bad decision, because of my fans and because of what I stand for.

Carroll Quigley

In fact, violence as a symbol of our growing irrationality has had an increasing role in activity for its own sake, when no possible justification could be made that the activity was seeking to resolve a problem.

Carnie Wilson

I understand that I'm a role model.

Charles Barkley

I'm not paid to be a role model, parents should be role models.

Charles Barkley

I'm not a role model.

Channing Tatum

No one's calling me for lawyer roles. I still have a lot to do to prove myself.

Edward Said

And in this relentlessly unfolding series of interactions, the U.S. has played a very distinctive role, which most Americans have been either shielded from or simply unaware of.

Jerry Only

We have a problem now with parents stealing their kids' CDs, so the roles have been reversed.

Bruce Campbell

There is a large element of me in every role I do.

Bow Wow

It's weird because every movie that I do is always a role that reminds me of a role that 'Pac would have done. And when 'Pac did 'Juice,' he was young - probably like 21, 22 - something like that. And that's my favorite actor. I know it might be weird to say, but he was talented on screen, and that's who I studied.

Archie Panjabi

I love roles where I have to transform myself.

Bea Arthur

I'm not playing a role. I'm being myself, whatever the hell that is.

Avi Arad

You can have a role in a movie that was originally something minor in terms of screen time, and all of a sudden we see something and go, wow, that's cool.

Brian Tee

I come from a huge theater background. The whole action and stunt world just came as the roles were available.

Brian J. White

The trailblazers are my role models in this industry: Sidney Poitier, Harry Belafonte, James Earl Jones, and Billy Dee Williams. I keep their pictures in my trailer and try to measure to their standards every time I act.

Brian Aldiss

However you envisage your role in life, all you can do is perform it as best you can.

Brendan Fraser

I always approach comedy roles pretending they aren't funny

Jamie Campbell Bower

I feel responsible for certain fans, but I've never said I'm a role model.

Jamie Fellner

Prisons are woefully ill-equipped for their current role as the nations primary mental health facilities.

Benjamin Franklin

It was said of him that he did not say much, but that when he did everyone stopped to listen.

Bela Lugosi

Of all the roles I've done on the stage, I'm partial to Cyrano de Bergerac.

Asa Butterfield

For every role you get, there are five roles that you don't.

Demi Lovato

I never thought that I'd be a role model. Everyone kind of just made me a role model, and I hated that.

Daniel Gillies

I'm not George Clooney, so I can't just pick and choose. I take roles where they occur.

Boman Irani

I was overjoyed when I was offered the title role in 'Well Done Abba.' I was ready for the role even before I heard the story because you don't ask questions when it is Shyam Benegal's film. It is the chance of a lifetime.

Boman Irani

I just love to work and spend time with my family. And that's the reason I don't look at the length of the role, but what it has to offer me.

Bradley Whitford

When you act, you're always playing a version of yourself. You can't bring more to the role than what you are

Bruce Jenner

First of all, I try to be a positive role model.

Bruce Lee

Stop wasting time in playing a role or a concept. Instead, learn to ACTUALIZE YOURSELF, your potential.

Denis Waitley

The world needs role models, instead of critics.

Ed Speleers

I want to go to the extremes and transformation is something I'm fascinated by. At the same time, you can transform but you can only really put what you've got inside you into somebody, so there's always going to be a degree of you inhabiting any role.

Elizabeth Pena

Every time I work with a European director, I find they hire the person that captures the spirit of the role. Americans tend to hire the best face. The person that looks more like the role, whether they can perform the role or not is a bonus.