Quotes About Role

'Next to Normal' has challenged me as an actor because of how complex Diana is. And that's got me hungry for another character like that in a non-singing role because it would be interesting to express that same intensity in a different way.

Like every actor, I am always on the lookout for interesting characters.

It's an interesting thing when you're casting a film - especially when you're trying to discover someone - you're waiting for someone to step into the room in an audition process and claim the role.

The most interesting thing about movies is that with every role you get to play a different person.

The best characters to play are the ones who have deep internal conflict.

An actor cannot be a censor. I'm there to interpret.

I'm an actor and my job is to interpret.

There is no such thing as a Bollywood hero or Hollywood hero. All you see on the screen is the lead actor's interpretation of the role that has been conceived by the writer.

There are blessed intervals when I forget by one means or another that I am President of the United States.

Winthrop was arguing for nothing more than the role expected of any seventeenth-century Englishwoman.

I really want to play Princess Leia. Stick some big pastries on my head. Now that would be interesting.

Shit!" I shouted at him. "Now listen, my friend. The youth have no role. They have no jobs. They have no money. They are not in power and they do not make decisions. If there is going to be a war, they will be dumped into the army. And they will be killed like young men everywhere have been killed - whether or not they believe in the war. Having no role is their role.

As we walk on the stage of human agency otherwise known as history, we should remember that ours are but bit-parts, to be played only momentarily before we move on. The characters may change but the paradigm remains, every generation being the inheritor of the role of Hamlet, yearning and looking for lost fathers, weary of becoming broken men themselves.

The person who's receiving the food cooks as much as the chef. They have a very important role to play.... There's no other activity that the person who receives it can destroy the work, can participate in how it's being done. It's emotional. Sometimes journalists are going to have to start talking more about the diners than the chefs.

So she was 'my lady' now, not 'miss'. That was what she had always wanted, wasn't it? Why did the words chill her? There was something so cold and final about it, like the click of a door closing behind her. Her childhood was over, and now there was only her place in the 'great game', and whatever role Uncle Maxim had chosen for her. There was no going back.

A good father is one of the most unsung, unpraised, unnoticed, and yet one of the most valuable assets in our society.

buyout, a gift to your children, a liquidation of assets, or any of the other possible outcomes. Stage four is the transition. It begins with the completion of the deal and ends when you're fully engaged in whatever comes next. Until you've moved on—not just physically but psychologically—to a new venture, a new career, a redefined role, or even retirement, your exit isn't complete.

And whereas women had to fight to find their way into the workforce, men are now fighting to reclaim their place in the family structure.

The real test of a man is not when he plays the role that he wants for himself, but when he plays the role destiny has for him. Vaclav Havel

I was to be a ham

Just as I have my own role to play, so does time. And time does its job much more faithfully, much more accurately, than I ever do. Ever since time began (when was that, I wonder?), it's been moving ever forward without a moment's rest. And one of the privileges given to those who've avoided dying young is the blessed right to grow old. The honour of physical decline is waiting, and you have to get used to that reality.

Necessity is an independent concept. It has a different structure from logic, morals, or meaning. Its function lies entirely in the role it plays. What doesn't play a role shouldn't exist. What necessity requires does need to exist. That's what you call dramaturgy.

Sara said she has feelings for me. He had no reason to doubt it. But there are countless things in the world for which affection is not enough. Life is long, and sometimes cruel . Sometimes victims are needed. Someone has to take on that role. And human bodies are fragile, easily damaged. Cut them, and they bleed.

I knew I wanted to be in music, but I didn't know my role, so I did everything from interning at Rolling Stone to writing heavy metal fanzines to playing in a high-school band, and I think all those things probably helped in a way.