Quotes About Roles

A family is something very static and hard to escape, so everybody has a certain role over the years, no matter if you like it or not.

Nowadays it's not who wears the pants in the family, but who carries the credit cards.

I love being a great-grandparent but what I hate is being the the mother of a grandparent.

Mothers are a biological necessity; fathers are a social invention

People always have many different roles to play. The crucial thing is to be determined to make a wholehearted effort in everything and be fully engaged in what we are doing at any given moment.

Everyone you know is a character in the movie of your life. You just have to decide who are the STARS and who are the EXTRAS!

The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast.

I don't think the relationship between novels and realities are one to one. Of course novels play different roles. It's essentially just a long narrative form. What you use that long narrative form for can be very different.

In organizations, real power and energy is generated through relationships. The patterns of relationships and the capacities to form them are more important than tasks, functions, roles, and positions.

'Chasing Amy' was an amazing role, but then after that, I went and did 'Big Daddy' and you're the girlfriend or you're the best friend. I wasn't getting the Nicole Kidman roles.

I was never the 'babe,' so I knew I'd never get those big roles. I'd always be the best friend or the quirky sidekick.

To others we are not ourselves but a performer in their lives cast for a part we do not even know that we are playing.

Whenever men appeared in breast stories, they were usually on the receiving, rather than the giving end.

I was often getting hired to play sociopaths and psychopaths and stuff, which is really funny.

I had to do two roles in two days, I'm in a hairflux.

If we can change our priorities, achieve balance and understanding in our roles as human beings in a complex world, the coming era can well be that of a richer civilization, not its end.

I don't want to do panel games or adverts. I really like challenges. I always get roles as an art teacher or a photographer. In the future I want to play something like a mugger/assassin/pastry chef.

I am happy being able to play roles with people my age because once you do something really mature there is no turning back.

There are only three ages for women in Hollywood -- Babe, District Attorney, and Driving Miss Daisy.

A woman with a woman's viewpoint is of more value when she forgets she's a woman and begins to act like a man

Marriage, Sir, is much more necessary to a man than to a woman; for he is much less able to supply himself with domestick comforts.

Nobody objects to a woman being a good writer or sculptor or geneticist if at the same time she manages to be a good wife, good mother, good looking, good tempered, well groomed and unaggressive.

The scorn men express for a male who does housework is exceeded only by their aversion to a woman who doesn't.

The man flaps about with a bunch of feathers: the woman goes to work softly with a cloth.