Quotes About Role

I'm done trying to be nice. If I'm constantly get labeled as the evil one anyway, at least let me play the part.

I think you chose the wrong career path. You should have gone into acting because you're so good at pretending to be something you're not.

But hadn't it always been generally accepted that a policeman's lot was riskier and tougher and less well paid than any other? The answer was painfully simple. Yes, but only because no other professional group suffered from such role fixation or dramatized its daily life to the same degree as did the police.

A wise man can play the part of a clown, but a clown can't play the part of a wise man.

Prepare the ground as Firestone may, insisting on the sober materialist approach to analysis, tracking the history, there is a sense here, that despite all this, technology continually exceeds its assigned role — if that role is simply to be the instrument through which to realize the possible in the real. It contains something more, a desire: the state of feminism is such that it needs something, and technology becomes that, or comes to stand for that something.

Writing plays the role of ritual when ritual is effective and manages to give those participating or attending the feeling that it reopens time.

On the Continent, bishops did not spurn such creature comforts, and regarded splendour as an essential prerequisite of their public role.

For me, the lessons were irrefutable. Iran illustrated beyond any doubt that the United States was a nation laboring to deny the truth of its role in the world. It seemed incomprehensible that we could have been so misinformed about the shah and the tide of hatred that had surged against him.

It was a very cozy meeting. In addition to my role as visitor liaison, I was also, once again, supervising snacks.

Well, think about it. Maybe you're playing a part on a great stage with only yourself as audience.

I don't think a female running a house is a problem, a broken family. It's perceived as one because of the notion that a head is a man.

You were born to lead as mothers and fathers, because nowhere is righteous leadership more crucial than in the family.

Whatever role we were in our family of birth, we take on this persona and in your 20s and 30s in particular, you end up thinking that's you and that isn't necessarily you.

Many people's unhappiness is rooted in the habitual role they play. While our family role may have made sense growing up, it often wreaks havoc in our adult lives.

Today while the titular head of the family may still be the father everyone knows that he is little more than chairman at most of the entertainment committee.

I have always had this secret fantasy of being a Bourne girl or Bond girl, and I've never even gotten called in on one of those roles.

All I ever wanted, all I ever needed was a father.

A man doesn't need to be flawless to be a perfect father, but the commitment to his family is a precious responsibility.

A father is a man who expects his son to be as good a man as he meant to be.

It is much easier to become a father than to be one.

Well, I don't play heroes obviously. I never played the guy who gets the girl. It might be interesting to do a part where I was a father in a functional family.

Now, when Luke Skywalker unmasks his father, he is taking off the machine role that the father has played. The father was the uniform. That is power, the state role.

The director, of course, was Bob Fosse. But again, I worked with my father to prepare for the role.

Not every father gets a chance to start his son off in his own footsteps.