Famous Quotes & Sayings

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 Lee

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Anthony Hopkins

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

Andy Stern

The question is always 'What is the role of a labor movement?' How much is about collective bargaining, how much is about social change for all workers?

Romeo Miller

I didn't even dance at my high school prom, and I have turned down so many movie roles because I didn't know how to dance.

Eleanor Robson Belmont

An actor rides in a bus or railroad train; he sees a movement and applies it to a new role. The whole garment in which the actor hides himself is made of small externals of observation fitted to his conception of a role.

Aubrey Plaza

I've always wanted to do all kinds of roles, dramatic roles and comedic roles, all kinds of roles.

Caroline Williams

Now we all know what our roles are now, each person. we're all working together better.

Ricky Gervais

There are so many films now where you know the story is a supporting role to the visual effects.

Brian Chesky

I had to learn to get comfortable in a role of ambiguity where I had to seek out advisers and learn quickly.

Charlotte Rampling

I don't want to play everything. So I'll seek out roles that I'll say, 'This is edgy. This is fun. This is wicked. This suits me.'

I only started singing the Russian roles when I came west.