Famous Quotes & Sayings

Benigno Aquino III

I remove a lot of the pressure from myself by saying I'm not competing with my parents. They are the persons who taught me my ideology. They actively practiced what they preached. They're the exemplars and the role models. So how does one compete with a mentor?

Clark Gable

I bring to a role everything I am, was and hope to be.

Nancy Marchand

I wasn't a glamour-puss, and there were more interesting roles for an actress like me in the theater and in live television.

I just want to keep at it. I can't wait to see, after years of being around, the roles I can play when I'm a crazy old lady.

Albert Einstein

Intuitive powers played a central role in my scientific work, not wild speculation, yet a valued resource when no other approach was available.

Campbell Scott

I'm not always angry. In fact, I think I usually go out of my way to try to find roles that don't seem to be like me.

Ayumi Hamasaki

I understand it's my role to realize people's dreams.

Aaron Paul

I love playing odd roles.

Adam Sandler

I had my moments of being humiliated, and then I had moments of doing something humiliating. I'm glad I lived out both roles.

Andy Cohen

I didn't have a role model when I was younger.

Laura Osnes

That's the joy of getting to be an actor - getting to play all kinds of different roles and showing so many different sides of yourself.

Charlie Melancon

We know very little about the role that you played,

Our students need to see role models. We feel very strongly about that.

Hans Blix

Our role is not to humiliate the Iraqis.

My role at this team will be bigger.

Andrew Cohen

I think it's unfortunate that we don't spend time talking about our role in the world.

William Daley

I think that 'strong' and 'decisive' are never words that are used for any vice president. A vice president's role is to play the second position.

I think the legislation really clarifies the role the two different bodies.

Mahmoud Abbas

We are going to reactivate the role of the PLO.

Annie Leibovitz

The subjects felt more comfortable if they played the role than if they had to be themselves.

Daniel Kahneman

We are prone to overestimate how much we understand about the world and to underestimate the role of chance in events.

Alexa Chung

I'm not preaching about things you should do, I'm not political or anything. I'm probably not the best role model.

Claudia Rankine

You become a role model because of what you do as a person. There's a certain point where being a role model might come from standing up for yourself and getting rid of emotion that doesn't belong to you, emotion that is being brought on because of racist actions of others.

Amber Tamblyn

Because the role-model pressure becomes so insane, the personal and private takes a backseat to whatever it takes to maintain that fame and to maintain that lifestyle, and before you know it you're not a human being anymore.

Andre Breton

It will in the end, be admitted that everything, in effect is an image and that the least object which has no symbolic role assigned to it is capable of standing for absolutely anything.

Amanda Peet

When I read "The Whole Nine Yards" I was like, 'Okay, this is a G-spot role'.

Christopher Walken

I have always refused to do something that has offended me. I have been offered potential roles that are totally vulgar.

Christopher Mintz-Plasse

It's always the script first choosing roles. [Then] whoever else is attached. I never like to be the first person attached, because I don't really trust what's going on, unless there's a really good director.

Donna Mills

You know, when they called me about the role, I thought Knots Landing was a show about a houseboat with Andy Griffith!

Colin Powell

It is not the role of the United States to dictate change, but to enter into discussions with our friends.

Andrea Riseborough

In my case, when you dive into a role, to do well and for you to do well in it, you have to put an enormous amount of faith in the director. But you also have to decide you're so interested in the material, this director, his work, and his process, that you don't care about the outcome.

Allyson Felix

Being a role model is a privilege.

Anthony Hopkins

I don't have any [favourite role]. I'm just a working actor.