Quotes About Role

I'm interested in playing old ladies because I am becoming one. And I want to become a very good one!

We become actors without realizing it, and actors without wanting to.

God loves us all, wants us all to share his kingdom, has a role for us all.

What if Woody Allen called me and said, I'm working on this movie and there's a really divine role for you. We want exactly you! It would be such a fantasy. Forget it! My idol, Woody Allen!

I wanted to do an acting role in a movie that had nothing to do with the music business or in which I would play a singer or a songwriter. When I act, I don't even want to be thought of as Ne-Yo.

You cannot embrace the action or play the role correctly if you're having someone else do the movements for you. I want to be doing it myself, unless it's going to be a train wreck.

Grace Portolesi is a strong, assertive passionate young woman and she is precisely the sort of person I want in my cabinet and she will have a senior role.

And I had a lot to play, which is what you want as an actor.

People are saying, "Oh my God, Saudi Arabia has changed." It's a contradiction. Do you want us to lead, or do you want us to play a supporting role?

Progressive Conservative candidates from Quebec want to exert real power in Ottawa, not simply be content with playing a secondary role.

An actor always wants to sink his teeth into something.

It sounds maybe a little old fashioned, but the parts I want to play and I do play, you don't want to inject too much of your own personality. What you sacrifice then is a slight mystery.

I'm a character actor, so I don't take the hit if the movie's bad, the lead does. So, I don't want to be the lead. He takes the hit, I don't.

I'd like to do a play, but I can't find the right thing. I don't want it to be a starring role. I just want to play a really interesting character.

As an actor, you're pretty much a hired gun. You are reading other people's words off of a page and doing what they want you to do.

I think that each character has fascinated and interested me enough to want to play him.

In the daytime, you act the way you should act because that is what people pay you for, or want from you.

the role of artists is to attend the funerals. They are the pall-bearers of failure, and every wonder they raise high in celebration harks back to a time already dead.

how much a person's identity depends on what role he is playing.

For those who care deeply about Zen and its place in Japan and the world, the challenge is to help define Zen's role creatively lest the tradition get buried under the avalanche of criticism.

Healthcare authorities neglect the role of psychological factors in pandemic­ related infection even though these factors are important for many reasons.

The episode with the American woman had shaken him as much as he sensed it had shaken her. It had been unexpected, a total, disorienting yanking-back to act out an archetypical role. He'd had as little volution in it as she, as if they'd been the puppets of higher purposes.

Let her be. We must wait for the time when she's mature enough to take on the role we have created for her. If we intervene before that time, we could ruin everything.

She had a part of part to play, involuntarily, and had already embarked upon it.