Quotes About Role

I don't play any role; I just play golf. I love the competition. For me, the pleasure begins on Thursday morning when a tournament starts. I come along and try to win. And that's what I enjoy.

I'll be a wife and mother first, then First Lady.

When I got this role, my daughter Molly said, 'Dad, you've come full circle.

The goal of female education must invariably be the future mother.

My mother was the making of me.

I've often wanted to play the victim, or somebody who makes terrible choices. I would love to play the alcoholic mother who horribly lets down her children. That's a great morally imperiled role.

It's like kids playing house: 'You play the father, I'll play the mother.' You know, you dress up, you play, they pay, you go home. It's a game - acting's a game.

Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father.

Courtney Love is really cool and funny. I would like to meet Julia Roberts and Cameron Diaz. I think I could play their daughters.

There is no greater name for a leader than mother or father. There is no leadership more important than parenthood.

Mother' is not an identity one can just try on for size.

Motherhood is all-encompassing, and in a way, as the mother, you're the star of the household.

In the beginning, Adam was instructed to earn the bread by the sweat of his brow - not Eve. Contrary to conventional wisdom, a mother's place is in the home!

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

When an actor comes to me and wants to discuss his character, I say, 'It's in the script.' If he says, 'But what's my motivation?, ' I say, 'Your salary.'

Imagination plays too important a role in the writing of history, and what is imagination but the projection of the author's personality.

It is almost as difficult to keep a first class person in a fourth class job, as it is to keep a fourth class person in a first class job.

I really want to play Princess Leia. Stick some big pastries on my head. Now that would be interesting.

My music is homegrown from the garden of New Orleans. Music is everything to me short of breathing. Music also has a role to lift you up - not to be escapist but to take you out of misery.

I feel like music does have a role to play in waking people up; it can be an alarm clock or it can be a lullaby.

But I feel music has a very important role in ritual activity, and that being able to join in musical activity, along with dancing, could have been necessary at a very early stage of human culture.

I feel I have to play a role in the transformation of my thoughts. Music is the most powerful way for me to do that, through my own music, through listening to other people's music.

But Nature cast me for the part she found me best fitted for, and I have had to play it, and must play it till the curtain falls.

Curing environmental ills requires not a stance outside nature, but a stance within nature, a role not as onlooker without, but as an actor within.