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Quotes About Roles

I think sometimes men find it easier to be a carer than an accessory. I mean, most women I know in bands are pretty lonely. Guys don't want to travel around with you. I know loads of women who do it, but guys don't do it. They're not brought up for it.
~ Viv Albertine
I don't think there are roles that would attract me to do a long run in the theatre.
~ Roger Allam
I have a strong accent; it limits the roles, of course it does. I guess if I had moved to America a long time ago maybe my accent would have got less.
~ Jean Reno
I never wanted to be famous. I want to be more famous than I am so I can get the roles. I hate losing the roles. I was famous more for being around people who were famous, and I hate that kind of fame.
~ Johnathon Schaech
I have not done too many fiction shows, yes, people love me for my roles on TV.
~ Karan Kundrra
I just don't think of myself as an actor much at all, so I don't lust after any particular roles.
~ Ron Howard
I want to do roles that are important for the story and not there for ornamental value or to just aid another character in the film which is often a 'friend's role' in mainstream films.
~ Rasika Dugal
TV does not have anything meaty to offer the male actors. It is a female-dominated industry.
~ Shaheer Sheikh
On November 9, the services of Peter Mayhew and David Prowse were legalized. "They told me that if I dawdled any longer, they would simply get someone else to play the role, so I signed," says Prowse. "I had to. Having no real identity in the films gives you a terrible feeling of insecurity. You are always aware that you are dispensable.
~ J.W. Rinzler
Age is the first limitation on roles that I've ever had to encounter, and I hit that awhile ago.
~ Jack Nicholson
At first I was always cast as the girlfriend. It was a long time before I got to play characters who were people.
~ Jacqueline Bisset
Men and women have been hardwired with distinctive gender traits that, when working together, serve the human race and display the glory of God.
~ Unknown
Men have broad shoulders and narrow hips, and accordingly they possess intelligence. Women have narrow shoulders and broad hips. Women ought to stay at home; the way they were created indicates this, for they have broad hips and a wide fundament to sit upon.
~ Unknown
If women become too much like men, men lose purpose, meaning, and inspiration in life.
~ John Gray
Men are motivated and empowered when they feel needed…. Women are motivated and empowered when they feel cherished.
~ John Gray
Sistrunk had made a decision. If possible, they would commandeer the table used by the prosecution and plaintiff, the one closest to the jury, and assert themselves as the true voice of the proponents of the will. Jake Brigance would probably throw punches, but bring it on. It was time to establish proper roles, and since their client was the
~ John Grisham
Gender mattered a whole lot less to Shakespeare than it seems to matter to us.
~ John Irving
I wanted to be on the stage, doing very important emotional roles.
~ Gloria Stuart
Quite often I play roles that require quite a degree of emotional exposure, and they can be very difficult to do.
~ Ian McLeod
there are the parents, then the sons, then the daughter, then the pigs in the pig-pen and the hens in the henhouse, then the apprentice and then, right at the bottom, the serving maids. Agnes believes her position, as new daughter-in-law, to be ambiguous, somewhere between apprentice and hen. Agnes
~ Maggie O'Farrell
Of course I acted in school plays but mostly as angels or mushrooms.
~ Maj Sjowall
Para qué sirve la mujer de su casa? Reflexiones de un filósofo": Una mujer de su casa, lo que se denomina así en todo el mundo civilizado, es un producto estúpido que no sirve para nada de lo que un hombre inteligente necesita en la vida, resumía el ignoto pensador, que firmaba José Lorenzo.
~ Unknown
blackballed from guild roles for two generations, because apparently mutiny is in the DNA, like eye color or a tendency toward irritable bowels. On
~ John Scalzi
Women in the scriptures were not systematically ignored any more than the majority of men were; they simply wielded their influence in a more intimate, less visible sphere.
~ Unknown