Quotes About Role

I've never had any problem with criticism. I've given a lot, and I've copped a lot. But I believe I've got a role to play by insisting that women be judged by their contribution - not somebody's view of what they should be about.

I go by my judgement when a role is offered to me.

I can't play a character that I am judging.

My role in the business is to use my judgment. All these years of experience have given me a clear head, and I can give a nonpartisan view with a sense of distance.

As I understand, the role of the federal judiciary, the role of our court system, is to provide justice.

I did one of the 'Amazing Stories.' That was the first time I got to play a character who was a dumb blonde. I actually channeled Judy Holliday.

I don't do Judy Garland or Mae West, and I'm not a female impersonator. I'm an actor.

That's an actor's dream to get something meaty and juicy and challenging to work on.

It's easy to diet or get off a diet when you've got a juicy role to play.

I have no 'dream role.' It just comes to me; it's very intuitive, and I say, 'OK, I have to do this now.' It's not logical; just, 'I have to jump into this very strange character,' or something like that. I can't even explain it.

I adored my years playing Rodney McKay and I would jump at any chance to reprise the role!

I usually played out and out heavies. No one else 'saw' me in any other role. No one else had ever believed I could be anything but a heavy. It was a heavy in a picture with Clara Kimball Young that June Mathis saw me and decided to cast me as Julio. 'There is the man for Julio,' she said, 'He, and no one other.'

You can be the lead in a movie just for the sake of being a lead in a movie, or you can just be in a good movie.

I don't want to just be the guy to dump the ball off to or the guy who can do the checkdowns.

With Daphne, there was a huge part of me going, This is my dream job, literally my dream role, but there's no way I'm going to get it. So I may as well just do it how I want to do it, and not think about anyone else.' That was quite a good thing.

When you see Robert Englund in a movie, you think he is the bad guy, but if I'm not the bad guy, and I'm supposed to just kind of fool the audience, it makes it a lot easier for whichever actor is the bad guy. So I find myself doing a lot of those, I think they're called red herring characters, faking out the audience.

You need a director, a script, and a role to justify a risk.

I took karate classes for a few years. Taekwondo. I'd love to do a movie role where I could do some karate.

I am keen on doing a comedy in a full-fledged positive role.

I believe one of the main roles of Government is to keep our economy free and fair.

I think football is evolving, and I think the role of the keeper is becoming more and more important in the game in general.

At Kentucky, I was kind of a role player.

Race has clearly played a role in Kentucky's Obama-phobia, as it has in other swaths of Appalachia. The Obama administration's supposed 'war on coal' is a big factor too.

When I played Ivanhoe, kids used to come along and kick me because they thought I wore armour under my clothes. When I was Maverick, I was accepted as a cowboy. And in 'The Persuaders,' I became Lord Brett Sinclair. In other words, I am what I am for as long as I am.