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Quotes About Role

I've no problem with dying my hair for a role. But in real life, forget it!
~ Shabana Azmi
She laughed, and I noted how different she was from the first night I'd met her. It was almost as though her uniform had the ability to transform her personality. But then I realized that the same was true about me. In a lab coat or scrubs, I was one person; dressed like a yachtsman, I was someone different. (p. 97, Trevor Benson)
~ Nicholas Sparks
I hadn't helped anybody learn anything, I'd just allowed them to be themselves; I was there for a day to ensure that room 18 didn't descend into utter chaos. My role was to function as straight man, to give these kids the pleasure of avoiding meaningless schoolwork. And that was maybe a useful role.
~ Nicholson Baker
It's like everyone's a supporting actor in the film of your life story.
~ Nick Hornby
It's like everyone's a supporting actor in the film of your life story. Of course. Isn't that how it works for everybody?
~ Nick Hornby
The role of intellectuals and radical activists, then, must be to assess and evaluate, to attempt to persuade, to organize, but not to seize power and rule
~ Noam Chomsky
What you have to understand, is your father was your model for God.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
The murderer, the victim, the witness, each of us thinks our role is the lead.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Our fathers were our models for God, if our fathers bailed, what does that tell you about God?
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Todas queremos ser yo, yo, yo la primera. La asesina, la víctima, la testigo, todas pensamos que nuestro papel es el protagonista.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
And better still, reference librarians served well in the role that the internet never did: They were the perfect bouncers at the door of bad information. Or, put differently, they were the best vectors to transmit truth.
~ Chuck Wendig
The pilot, Wedge Antilles, once Red Leader and now—well, now something else, a role without a formal title, as yet
~ Chuck Wendig
I have a distaste for the term "supporting characters." It's not that it's a bad term, exactly, but it does call to mind a jockstrap or a bra—something created only to lift and support something else, that's purely architectural and not alive with that precious spark of life we assume characters should have.
~ Chuck Wendig
But you see, everyone has a part to play. In this theater, I'm a daughter and a sister and a mother—never an artist. I could be, I don't know, Luc Tuymans, and it would mean nothing to them. They allow no room for anything but my duty.
~ Claire Messud
Gardening symbolizes our race's primordial acceptance of a responsibility and role in rectifying the harm done to the creation through sin.
~ Vigen Guroian
luck, of course, will always play a role, as it does with all strategies
~ W. Chan Kim
Their excesses were largely responsible for the anti-Jewish sentiment which permeated the British forces in Palestine. Those excesses had produced other fruits, however. They had helped disgust the British public with Britain's role in Palestine, and thus played an important role in leading Clement Attlee to his decision to leave.
~ Larry Collins
Armand's role in Lenin's life should not be reduced to her alleged stint as 'Lenin's mistress'.
~ Lars T. Lih
The weight of the current evidence should be regarded as strong enough to elicit widespread public health warnings about the suspected role of marijuana use in precipitating suicidal behaviors, since the mandate of the relevant authorities is to err on the side of protecting public health rather than to establish scientific certainty beyond a shadow of a doubt.
~ Laura Stack
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~ Celeste Ng
I did this role in Life Goes On as an HIV positive character and so emotionally that was the most challenging.
~ Chad Lowe
'A Guide To Recognizing Your Saints' was the first real actor-actor part I did, and I hope I to do more. Action movies are fun, but I'd be happy not to do them if there are better roles.
~ Channing Tatum
Women's natural role is to be a pillar of the family.
~ Grace Kelly
Since] a player controls every character, it is that player's intelligence that dictates the character's goals and actions, not an arbitrary number on a character sheet. Thus, in a sense, the player _is_ the character's "intelligence score"!
~ Greg Stafford