Quotes About Role

Onstage, I was never the ingenue.

A woman is like an actress: she's always onstage.

Theatre comes alive when someone cross-dresses onstage.

I tend to - every time I step onto the set until the time I go back to the hotel, I just try to be in character all the time.

I lost myself, and a lot of characters I played, I have latched onto some of their identities just because I was so lacking in anything of my own.

I feel the dams of emotions open up more easily when one is acting.

Mike Nichols asked if I would do The Birdcage. Mike and I are dear friends but he had never offered me a feature role in a movie. My television career opened other doors for me.

It's amazing what it opens up in women when you tell them you've just played a midwife.

Perhaps one never seems so much at one's ease as when one has to play a part.

You're going to act like a happy man. I know, I know. It's the hardest role in the world.

Because she is an actress, she has fashioned an entire career out of identity theft.

This tension stimulated the gland of entertainment in me and I found myself in the role of master of revels, the evening fool, with cards in my sleeves and a ready joke for every interval of silence.

Creating alignment is one of the most important roles of leadership. It often falls to the team leader to ensure the purpose of the team is defined, clear, and communicated. He or she must make sure the team mission meets five criteria:

If I had to add anything, it would be that team leadership may be the most challenging of all leadership roles. In this arena, the team leader must lay aside his or her mantle of positional leader and take on the role of a servant leader, serving the task of the team as well as the individual members.

But for women, the conflict between sex role and artistic commitment goes much deeper: The successful woman is-almost by definition-the one who sacrifices her self, her creativity and intellectuality, who puts them into personal (read male) and not professional (read competition) commitments.

But specialization never answered the basic questions of life. Before that time, the fundamental role of education was to answer those questions. Unfortunately, the answers were often not good answers, and that put people in a position of saying, "Well, we don't even discuss this.

The cybrid allows me to carry out my role in the datumplane community." "As poet?" Johnny smiled again. "More as poem," he said. "A poem?" "An ongoing work of art Ã¢â'¬Â¦ but not in the human sense. A puzzle perhaps. A variable enigma which occasionally offers unusual insights into more serious lines of analysis.

Some people are all self-presentation, with no substance to back it up. The varieties of social intelligence are no substitute for the other kinds of expertise that a given role may call for.

Anna Bergman in Private Confessions], unlike her mother... has never been able to tame her fantasies of what life ought to be like, to adapt the role she yearns to enact to the play she finds herself in.

There is enormous pressure on you to take a place in the story your culture is enacting in the world— any place at all.

"Behind every successful man is a woman – with nothing to wear."

I never accept lengthy film roles nowadays, because I am always so afraid I will die in the middle of shooting and cause such awful problems.

You never play age, you play character.

It hasn't been until the last couple years that I've started playing close to my age. But it's fun playing the younger roles because it takes you back to the teen years.