Best Roles Quotes

When I see the leadership roles black women are taking today I am very encouraged.

The key to teamwork is to learn a role, accept a role, and strive to become excellent playing it.

I would never do a role where I’m naked in bed with a chick having sex.

I don’t like piracy but if anybody’s concerned about piracy, why don’t they pay attention to our role in it?

The outstanding coach is a teacher that gets all his squad to accept the role that he considers to be the most important for the welfare of all.

How ever sugarcoated and ambiguous, every form of authoritarianism must start with a belief in some group’s greater right to power, whether that right is justified by sex, race, religion or all four.

I think dogs are the most amazing creatures; they give unconditional love. For me they are the role model for being alive.

In microbiology the roles of mutation and selection in evolution are coming to be better understood through the use of bacterial cultures of mutant strains.

One of the best ways to elevate your character is to emulate worthy role models

I started out as a writer and a director. I started acting because I wanted to know how to relate to the actors. When people ask me what I do, I don’t really say that I’m an actor, because actors often wait for someone to give them roles.

I believe that everybody has the right to view his or her own body as a palette. However, I think intellectuals should at least try to be role models.

The attentions of others matter to us because we are afflicted by a congenital uncertainty as to our own value, as a result of which affliction we tend to allow others’ appraisals to play a determining role in how we see ourselves. Our sense of identity is held captive by the judgements of those we live among.

The words of language, as they are written or spoken, do not seem to play any role in my mechanism of thought. The physical entities which seem to serve as elements in thought are certain signs and more or less clear images.

I see myself as mom first. I’m so lucky to have that role in life. The world can like me, hate me or fall apart around me and at least I wake up with my kids and I’m happy.

I love vegan choices, raw food choices, and I’ll eat whatever I have to in order to get into whatever shape I need to get into for any one particular role.

I’m not attempting to be a role model but I accept that roles I’ve played put me in that position. I don’t feel a huge responsibility as an actress to put my young fan base first.

Everything changes with age. The parts change with age, your feelings about them change, roles that I would’ve wanted to play 10 years ago, I don’t want to play now.

Cool is the emotional straightjacket. It makes us less available for connection which makes us less equipped for leadership roles.

Writers perform an extremely important role: they make others dream, those who are unable to dream for themselves. And everyone needs to dream. Could there be any more important job in life than that?

The importance of high expectations plays a big role.

There are a lot of actors who wish there was a next play, a next musical. As an actor, I guess that’s all I can wish for – the next role, the next opportunity.

I’d love to be able to play all different roles, whether it’s Maureen in Rent or Maria in West Side Story. I would just love to be involved in this business forever.

When you are developing a character you have to bring so much of yourself to the role.

I can’t really connect with things unless they are spiritual in nature, so I have to make acting spiritual for myself, and each role a spiritual journey for me.

If, by the way I play, I can be a role model or encourage someone else, that would be great.

A critic often has to play the role of coroner, dissecting a work to find out why it died (or never lived).

I don’t really consider myself a celebrity. I consider myself more of a role model.

I had a mini marathon once I landed the role – going from ‘Splendor in the Grass’ to ‘Bonnie and Clyde’ to ‘Shampoo’ to ‘Reds.’ I watched them back to back. I found that when you’re in the mood for ‘Reds,’ you’re not in the mood for ‘Shampoo.’

You have actresses like Meryl Streep and Julia Roberts, who have roles specially written for them.

I usually don’t know how to fight hard for roles. I’ve certainly sent a passionate letter or two… which always leads nowhere.

I love characters that are very layered and complex. It’s more exciting and different than any simple role- plus, I love a good challenge.

When a man has written a role for you that you admire, the expectations are higher.

Fairy tales and folk tales have always played a role in my writing in one way or another.

Teachers were both blamed for everything that went wrong with kids and turned to for their every salvation. This dual role of scapegoat and savior was downright messianic but even Jesus was probably paid better.

I don’t see myself as a role model; people should look to mothers and sisters as role models.