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Quotes About Roles

As an actor, you can play different age ranges and different ethnicities.
~ Justin Chon
As you get older, there are different types of roles in people's lives at certain ages.
~ Logan Lerman
It is easy enough to see why women came to object to the role of Blondie, a mostly decorative custodian of a degraded, consumptive modern household, preoccupied with clothes, shopping, gossip, and outwitting her husband. But are we to assume that one may fittingly cease to be Blondie by becoming Dagwood? Is the life of a corporate underling — even acknowledging that corporate underlings are well paid — an acceptable end to our quest for human dignity and worth?
~ Wendell Berry
The first sexual division comes about when nurture is made the exclusive concern of women. This cannot happen until a society becomes industrial; in hunting and gathering and in agricultural societies, men are of necessity also involved in nurture.
~ Wendell Berry
Laney had recently noticed that the only people who had titles that clearly described their jobs had jobs he wouldn't have wanted.
~ William Gibson
But in some way, they remained shadowy figures, their thoughts and motives mysterious, their emotions portrayed only when they affected the lives of the male heroes, their roles ultimately subservient to those of their fathers or husbands, brothers or sons.
~ Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Scrum recognizes only three distinct roles: product owner, scrum master, and team member
~ Chris Sims
We have seen a few examples of teams trying to have one person serve as both scrum master and product owner. In all the cases we have seen, this has failed.
~ Chris Sims
Although she can function extraordinarily well in other roles, mothering is the single most daunting task for the borderline female.
~ Christine Ann Lawson
la opinión común a todos los hombres es que las mujeres nunca sirvieron para otra cosa que para traer hijos e hilar la lana.
~ Christine de Pizan
Le] couple mère-enfant ne désigne pas une association d'individus mais essentiellement un système de rôles et d'obligations : une formation sociale. De surcroît cette formation sociale est le résultat empirique - en termes d'associations d'individus physiques - d'une structure d'exploitation : le système politique patriarcal.
~ Christine Delphy
You aren't a true husband/man until you've done the work of a wife/women
~ Leon Uris
I didn't know what types of movies I wanted to do. I want to do things that are different. I want to take my time with each role.
~ Leonardo DiCaprio
I don't want to limit myself. I want to keep doing all sorts of roles. I guess what lies behind this urge is the conviction that movies have changed my life. And certain performances have inspired me to try to be someone different.
~ Rinko Kikuchi
You can really get your chops in shape in the resident theatres, and I urge anyone to investigate them and to be willing to go anywhere to pursue the great roles.
~ Jefferson Mays
I think politics and films are a great combination. Still, I have the urge in me to do really good roles. But I feel isolated at times when politicians treat me like a film star and the industry treats me like a politician.
~ Jaya Prada
Fame is useful in certain ways, because it helps you get more roles.
~ Mia Wasikowska
We were using Brooke as an actress; she was playing different roles: a liberated woman, a teenager, a vamp.
~ Calvin Klein
There was the usual summer stock, the New England tours and then I started doing all kinds of roles for CBS after moving to California.
~ Amanda Blake
Having spent almost 25 years in different roles within Investor, I have truly enjoyed working with creating long-term value in our companies.
~ Borje Ekholm
If their own duplicity deserts human beings, then the roles are reversed: it is the machine that goes gaga, that falters and becomes perverse, diabolic, ventriloquous. The duplicity merrily goes over to the other side. If subjective irony disappears - and it disappears in the play of the digital- then irony becomes objective. Or it becomes silence.
~ Jean Baudrillard
Soldiers and women. That's how the world is. Any other role is temporary. Any other role is a gesture.
~ Jeanette Winterson
I've done approximately 15 films, and most of the things I've done have either been stunt or costume work.
~ Verne Troyer
In a band that works out well, everybody has a certain role to fulfill.
~ Gavin Rossdale