Quotes About Roles

She knew that men cannot work as women do, but have the hearts of children always in them

Most companies have succession plans for their leadership ranks, but it devolves into a rote exercise, and the organization lacks a clear sense of who will fill key roles in case of departure. It's another instance of what I call "compliance with words rather than compliance with intent.

The whole world - theater, and the people in it - the actors

Y me sorprendió esa complementariedad que manteníamos a pesar de no entender por qué seguíamos juntos. Funcionábamos como si se hubiera perdido casi todo lo que alguna vez nos sostuvo, excepto la minuciosa y tácita distribución de roles y tareas que seguía apuntalando lo que habíamos armado juntos con voluntad más que con cualquier otra pasión o sentimiento.

We fell into our roles. Where there's a ventriloquist, there's a dummy. The latter word only sounds worse than the former. He disliked being told what to do. I disliked being pushed further into the shadows and speaking only through him.

I think we should consider our roles as monarchs to be largely decorative. It would be better for the low Courts and the solitary Folk to work things out on their own.

I decided to play the hero. See how it felt. To try.' 'And?' she asks. 'I didn't like it,' he admits. 'Henceforth, I think we should consider our roles as monarchs to be largely decorative. It would be better for the low Courts and the solitary Folk to work things out on their own.' 'I think you have iron poisoning,' she tells him, which could possibly be true but is still a hurtful thing to say when he is making perfect sense.

And I decided to play the hero. See how it felt. To try." "And?" she asks. "I didn't like it," he admits. "Henceforth, I think we should consider our roles as monarchs to be largely decorative. It would be better for the low Courts and the solitary Folk to work things out on their own." "I think you have iron poisoning," she tells him, which could possibly be true but is still a hurtful thing to say when he is making perfect sense.

The differences between a soldier, an artisan, a man of business, a lawyer, an idler, a student, a statesman, a merchant, a sailor, a poet, a beggar, a priest, are as great, though not so easy to define, as those between the wolf, the lion, the ass, the crow, the shark, the seal, the sheep, etc. Thus social species have always existed, and will always exist, just as there are zoological species.

Men were only made into "men" with great difficulty even in primitive society: the male is not naturally "a man" any more than the woman. He has to be propped up into that position with some ingenuity, and is always likely to collapse.

Hollywood is throwing action movies at me.

When you're in a relationship you get stuck playing out your different parts.

You know, when I first went into the movies Lionel Barrymore played my grandfather. Later he played my father and finally he played my husband. If he had lived I'm sure I would have played his mother. That's the way it is in Hollywood. The men get younger and the women get older.

I think of all the people playing roles, getting further and further away from themselves, from what moves them, what stirs them all up inside.

The father-daughter wound is not only an event happening in the lives of individual women. It is a condition of our culture as well.² Whenever there is a patriarchal authoritarian attitude which devalues the feminine by reducing it to a number of roles or qualities which come, not from woman's own experience, but from an abstract view of her—there one finds the collective father overpowering the daughter, not allowing her to grow creatively from her own essence.

For men, incompetence was a gambit: I'm terrible at this; you do it .

I have no problem doing the same type of roles. But those who understand acting technique, and watched me in 'Mardaani 2,' might have observed the nuances, variations I can bring into a character.

I don't get to play the same role over and over in different movies. The roles that I get to play are quite varied, which is great.

I try to keep things as varied as possible in my career, and after playing something as fun and over the top as Maryann on 'True Blood,' I wanted to find something antithetical to that.

I love to play varied roles. That's the most exciting thing for me.

As you know, before entering the glamorous world of Bollywood, I was into theatre, where I played varied roles, from a lover boy to a servant.

Just like how male actors get to play varied characters, I would also like to play characters that people don't normally see female characters portraying on screen.

I got an opportunity to do varied roles so early in my career.

Every movie that comes to me is an opportunity for me to show that I can play varied parts.