Quotes About Role

Im usually cast as the sassy, brassy best friend.

The best way of successfully acting a part is to be it.

Aaron Echolls is one of the best characters that I've ever played.

I will seek out the best advice, and I will create a strategy and I will persuade the American people what the role of America should be. I've laid out a policy of rebuilding our military.

I didn't really think of role in those terms, like 'quirky best friend', when I read the script and when I came to the project.

Pretending to be other people is my game and that to me is the essence of the whole business of acting.

ER was one of my favourites. I played a car accident victim who has leukemia. I got to wear a neck brace and nose tubes for the two days I worked.

If there ever was a time when character mattered, it was in Washington's role in the birth of America. If he had operated with a different set of moral values and a different personal character, America would have had a king or dictator instead of a federal Constitution and representative government.

after the Black Death, had materially changed the role of law. It was no longer an instrument of communal justice; it had instead become the machinery of exaction designed to control and discipline the lower classes.

Entrepreneurial management in the new venture has four requirements: It requires, first, a focus on the market. It requires, second, financial foresight, and especially planning for cash flow and capital needs ahead. It requires, third, building a top management team long before the new venture actually needs one and long before it can actually afford one. And finally, it requires of the founding entrepreneur a decision in respect to his or her own role, area of work, and relationships.

To quote Alfred Einstein: 'a follower tells, but a leader shows.

A job pays you for what the role/designation does rather than for what you can do, which is why the compensation it pays doesn't justify your capabilities.

I've married before and it was no better, and if I divorce Kathy I'll marry again—because as my brainbasher puts it I can't find my identity outside the role of husband and daddy and big butter-and-egg-man wage earner—and the next damn one will be the same because that's the kind I select. It's rooted in my temperament.

All I can tell you with certainty is that I, for one, have no self, and that I am unwilling or unable to perpetrate upon myself the joke of a self.... What I have instead is a variety of impersonations I can do, and not only of myself — a troupe of players that I have internalised, a permanent company of actors that I can call upon when a self is required.... I am a theater and nothing more than a theater.

Suicide is the role you write for yourself. You inhabit it and you enact it. All carefully staged—where they will find you and how they will find you. But one performance only.

If how we tell history is one of the ways we shape our present and future, we can do no better than to rethink the myth of the First Thanksgiving and its role in the Thanksgiving holiday.

If you do not influence them, someone else will. If you are not shaping their values, others will do it for you. The issue is not, Will my child be influenced? The issue is, Who will be that influence? Most parents I know prefer to wield the greatest influence in the lives of their children. They wisely want to make the major investment in their children's lives so that the values of their offspring largely reflect their own. That's the most basic rationale for investing

We were all actors, just as you are all actors now. But our audience wasn't as large as yours. And our performances, like those on a stage, were fleeting, uncaptured.

Je ne crois en rien. Certainement pas à toutes ces imbécillités religieuses. Mais un peu aux anges. Aux constellations. À mon rôle, même infinitésimal, dans le livre des causes et des effets. Il n'est pas interdit de s'imaginer partie d'un tout.

Ah'm uh man even if Ah is de Mayor. But de mayor's wife is somethin' different again.

America must not abdicate its global leadership role in the climate crisis to countries like China.

I never really absorbed myself in a role like some actors do.

I have always accepted films based on what my role is. Of course, I do look at who is playing the lead opposite me, the producer and the director.

I work according to the kind of character they want me to play.