Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kay Bailey Hutchison

The traditional role of the Senate has been to be the adult in the room.

James Toback

The collaborator has to be someone who understands that his role is to help you articulate what you want, but at the same time is not just going to be mechanically obeying, but adding to, supplementing, and coming up with stuff.

Tony Abbott

The role of CO2 is not nearly as clear as the climate catastrophists would suggest.

Reese Witherspoon

I got a role in this movie called Freeway playing this really angry, aggressive, violent young woman who believed wholeheartedly in the truth. I had such satisfaction afterward, and I thought, That's what I want to do.

Tim Roth

The first role I ever did... I played a Nazi skinhead.

Sean Penn

What happens is things come to you - director, script - and if you respond to it, it's because it's tapping into some part of what's inside you, and different roles tap into different parts.

Randeep Hooda

I overhaul myself for my roles. Sooner or later, I will get my due.

Selma Blair

Perhaps I have managed some sort of longevity because I haven't won the lead roles.

Leslie Caron

I longed to break out of the system and do different roles.

Laura Prepon

For some reason, I like to put myself in situations where I don't even know how I ended up there. I never want to be complacent or comfortable in a role.

Larry Elder

Welfare distorts behavior, makes one less personally responsible and reduces the role of private charity. This principle applies to corporate welfare.

Kylie Minogue

If I came across a role that is completely mainstream [and] commercial, but it's the right one, I'd jump at the chance.

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.

Kevin Hart

Take me and my role seriously. Take my talent seriously.

Jacob Latimore

I was in a movie called 'Vanishing on 7th Street,' and that was my first leading role in a movie. It's an apocalyptic thriller, and it's really cool. It's the first movie I ever shot.

Morgan Freeman

I avoid seeing myself while I'm working on role so I won't see "me."

Mila Kunis

I feel like every role you take, there's a part of you that obviously feels like you can do it.

Jordan Gavaris

I love Tom Wilkinson and Tommy Lee Jones as well as Jessica Chastain. But the person I look up to most, not because I identify with her roles but because of who she is as a person, is Sissy Spacek.

Johnny Depp

I guess I'm attracted to these off beat roles because my life has been a bit abnormal. The only thing I have a problem with is being labeled.

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.

Peter Asher

I have very much enjoyed being in the music business in different roles through five different decades.

Max Roach

I always resented the role of a drummer as nothing more than a subservient figure.

May Sarton

I sometimes imagine that as one grows older one comes to live a role which as a young person one merely 'played.

Max Ernst

The role of the painter . . . is to project that which sees itself in him.

Maureen O'Hara

After I got to Hollywood, I resented that I didn't get a crack at more dramatic roles because I photographed so beautifully.

Lucy Liu

I generally won't do a role unless I feel like it's in my system somewhere, even if it's just a molecule of it. Like I just felt like I knew it and if I talked about it or discussed it or tried to rehearse it that it would take away the energy from that scene so I went in there and just did it.

Persis Khambatta

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

Patrick Stewart

As the captain, I was going to be having the dominant role in most of the episodes, and that was appealing. I wasn't interested in coming to Hollywood to sit around.

Owen Wilson

I definitely would like to do some more dramatic roles.