Quotes About Role

It was nice to play something that felt a little more muted or internalized in 'The Daughter.'

My mom is just incredible. She's delved into both the mother and father figure in my life.

There will only ever be 13 dwarves in 'The Hobbit' - and I was one of them. If I had my time again, would I do it? Yeah, I would.

It's a clique and I think a clique exists in every business. There's a circle of people that are guaranteed to open a movie and we all know their names and whether they're right or wrong for the role.

That's one thing I like to do before going in for a read - doing research once I actually have been granted the role - is to look up people's names.

The role of TV at the core of the family is that of an electric nanny.

Falling in love is a narcissistic endeavor. You play the role of lover, and you find someone to act it out on.

It's definitely a great honor to be the first Asian-American to win a NASCAR Cup Series Championship. It's not something that I set out to accomplish in that way, but now that I have, I know that I hold a much bigger role in the Asian community.

Well, Italy is huge for me. I've been going back every summer, not just to see my family, but play with the Italian National Team. So, Italy plays a huge role in my life. It will always play a huge role in my life.

A coach - any coach, not just a national team coach - should try to be exemplary. And a national team manager even more so.

I've been the captain at Ajax and once for the national team - it's nice and makes you an important player.

You don't get called up to the national team because you tell good jokes, you are funny, you are handsome or because you are Messi's friend. You are called up because you have a role at your given club and you have personality.

I think we have a big responsibility as the U.S. women's national team for women's football globally. I think everyone kind of looks up to us, whether they say they do or not. I think there is this awe and curiosity about what we've done in order to become as successful as we have.

Being a left back is a very important role, I'm happy to play there. Every time I get the call for the national team or Bayern to play left back, I'm willing to do it.

My first role was in a Nativity play. My mom was playing Mary, and I was crying backstage, so she brought me out as Baby Jesus.

I auditioned for the role of an angel in the Nativity play at school. I didn't get it. I auditioned for Mary; didn't get it. So I made up the character of the sheep who sat next to Baby Jesus.

I would have to say that I have to concentrate more when I'm doing comedy. There are so many details that make up any character, but developing a character for a dramatic role seems to come more naturally.

It's fun playing the bad guy. It comes naturally.

I've known one thing for a long time: there's a role in the big machine even for someone who makes fun of it.

George feels flattered and excited...He can't resist slipping into the role Kenny so temptingly offers him.

No time to worry about that now. In ten minutes they will have arrived on campus. In ten minutes, George will have to be George—the George they have named and will recognize. So now he consciously applies himself to thinking their thoughts, getting into their mood. With the skill of a veteran he rapidly puts on the psychological make-up for this role he must play.

The world is led by Alpha Males, but the machinery of the world turns on the bearings of the Beta Male.

The conclusion is inescapable: The U.S. social scientists active in psychological warfare were not ignorant of their role, or of the violence that usually accompanied psychological operations. They were, rather, insulated, just as Biderman and Crawford say, from consideration of the implications of their work.

I discovered ... that a novel has nothing to do with words in the first instance. Writing a novel is a cosmological matter, like the story told by Genesis (we all have to choose our role models, as Woody Allen puts it).