Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ray Charles

The role of the designer is basically that of a good host, anticipating the needs of the guest.

Mercedes Ruehl

Some roles require a building from the foundation up; it really doesn't come to you easily.

John Green

Our role as humans is to recognize the complexity of others.

John Green

I always wondered if there was a purpose to the universe, if there was a plan, if there was some sort of organizing factor, hopefully that I played a role in.

Dennis Haysbert

I like to think I'm multi-faceted. Actually, my favorite roles are roles like in 'Far from Heaven.' Y'know. Soft people. Loving people.

Darlene Cates

Im not opposed to doing science fiction or comedy, but there has to be respect. I refuse to be the joke, the fat woman joke, in any movie. Ive turned down roles.

J. B. Smoove

I would only take a role that I know I'm comfortable in and I can do. I've turned down plenty of things because I'd feel it's not me, and I wouldn't want to come on someone's project and flip that.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Scholars who become politicians are usually assigned the comic role of having to be the good conscience of state policy.

Isabelle Huppert

Some roles are easier to choose, some roles are more difficult because they are more daring. Sometimes you have to dare.

Guy Pearce

I don't want to make a habit of just playing small roles, because I really enjoy the process of being part of a film and staying on it for the length of time that everybody else is as well.

Guy Pearce

If it's a great role or a great film, then you're happy to be a part of it.

Gary Hamel

Over the centuries, religion has become institutionalized, and in the process encrusted with elaborate hierarchies, top-heavy bureaucracies, highly specialized roles and reflexive routines.

George W. Bush

I'm not so sure the role of the United States is going around the world saying this is the way its gotta be.

Hill Harper

I love making films, but the best roles are hard to come by.

Josh Brolin

When accepting or preparing for a role, fear is the motivating factor.

Joel McCrea

I turned down as many roles that I thought were beyond my abilities as I did ones I thought weren't good enough.

Garrett Hedlund

I've been told I'm too good looking for certain roles, but that's okay. It just motivates me to go deeper.

Gabrielle Reece

Family and the natural surroundings played a big role in shaping my values.

George Clooney

I am the least qualified person to comment on anyone playing the role of Batman since I so terribly destroyed the part,

Heath Ledger

It's rare that there's a role that requires an Australian accent.

Helen Mirren

I'm not a republican any more. Not so voraciously anyway - I'm not in favour of the concept of monarchy, but I do see the good in it if there's a good person in the role.

Heather Matarazzo

I don't really prepare for roles. I just kind of do them!

Henry Czerny

I've refused roles because they're too simplistic.

Mario Lopez

I'm proud of my background, so I hope there will be more roles where Hispanics are being portrayed

Nicholas A. Christakis

There are very fundamental reasons we live our lives in social networks, and if we really understood the role they're playing in our society, we would take better care of social networks and find ways to take advantage of their power to improve our society.

Neil Armstrong

Yeah, I wasn't chosen to be first. I was just chosen to command that flight. Circumstance put me in that particular role. That wasn't planned by anyone.

John Noble

A lot of the times, roles are chosen for us.

Paulo Freire

It is absolutely essential that the oppressed participate in the revolutionary process with an increasingly critical awareness of their role as subjects of the transformation.

Jon Heder

I know at some point I would like to take on more dramatic roles.

Jon Hamm

I don't have any sort of calculus in choosing film roles.

Louis Pasteur

The role of the infinitely small in nature is infinitely great.

Max von Sydow

I accept a role only if it's something I really, really like

Mary Tyler Moore

I loved working with Valerie. That was the most wonderful revelation to find that when we are on a set and we're playing our roles, we're like separated twins. We can almost finish each other's dialogue.