Roles Quotes - Page 23

• I can't tell you how many couples I know where the husband and the wife are both in the military and have deployed together, and they've got kids, and so I think times have changed and gender roles have blurred when it comes to the military.

  Tanya Biank

  Husband, Couple, Military

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• Catholicism is a really mean religion, and it's incredibly hypocritical. But it plays a role in my life 'cause you can't really get a lot of things out of your head, such as what Jesus Christ looks like and that divorce is a horrible thing.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Jesus, Mean, Divorce

  Source: www.ultramadonna.com

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• I hope to never stop growing. I hope that with every role I play, I keep adding layers to my craft. I love acting and I study religiously with my coach.

  Eva Mendes

  Play, Acting, Layers

  Source: editorial.rottentomatoes.com

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• Working with Gabby [Sidibe], I realized immediately that she was amazingly talented. I could tell just by the way she'd get into the role.

  Lenny Kravitz

  Way, I Realized

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• There are children who recognize that they have a special role, and they enjoy it. But there are also many who sense that they can't do what the others can do, and they're happy to be placed in a protected school. It depends on their personalities.

  Gotz Aly

  Children, School, Personality

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• Some actors pride themselves on disappearing into a role. I'm into the game because I like experiencing and exploring themes, so I put a lot of myself into the person.

  Jake M. Johnson

  Pride, Games, Actors

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

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• You learn so much from making mistakes, not even necessarily mistakes that I've made, a lot of the time the films just don't work out because it's a really difficult process. And sometimes there's a certain person underlining process. But I've had an opportunity to work on all different types of films and I have had a lot of opportunities to stretch myself in different ways and now is the time where I get to try and figure out out the roles that I can really play well and play them well.

  Josh Hartnett

  Mistake, Opportunity, Play

  "Interview: Josh Hartnett Talks 30 Days Of Night". Interview with Joe Utichi, editorial.rottentomatoes.com. November 1, 2007.

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• After Princess Diaries, I was labeled a good girl, and for the first eight years of my career I had to fight to get any other kind of role. But I like fighting for a job, actually. Once you get it, you feel like you've emerged victorious from the scrap and you're like, "OK, this one's mine. Did it. Done."

  Anne Hathaway

  Girl, Jobs, Princess

  "Anne Hathaway Talks About Her Husband, Her Haters, and More in Her January 2013 Glamour Interview". Interview with Eve Ensler, www.glamour.com. December 4, 2012.

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• Too many young actors are strutting about and doing films without having developed some of the depth you need to bring off certain kinds of roles. I think that's the problem with the system, where a lot of younger actors who haven't had a chance to develop suddenly become stars.

  Christopher Walken

  Stars, Thinking, Depth

  Source: www.gamesradar.com

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• I'm a character actor. I have to find work in good movies where I can make something of my role. I'm a very lucky guy to be in that kind of position. It's like a kid who dreams of becoming a baseball player and then he gets to play for the Yankees.

  Christopher Walken

  Baseball, Dream, Character

  Source: www.gamesradar.com

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• I decided to become a teacher because I thought it would be a great career where I could wear different hats. You're an academic one moment, and you're a psychologist the next moment, an athlete the next moment... when you are out on the playground or coaching...so it enables you to play different roles.

  Erik Weihenmayer

  Teacher, Athlete, Play

  Source: www.afb.org

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• I do try hard to pick roles that differ. I love that about the job. I think the variety that's out there is to be taken advantage of and I enjoy that element of shape shifting with everything.

  Emily Blunt

  Jobs, Taken, Thinking

  The MoviesOnline Interview, www.moviesonline.ca. 2012.

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• Once you've created a connection of empathy, rational arguments can play a supportive role.

  Nicholas D. Kristof

  Play, Empathy, Supportive

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I also dreamt about finally meeting the leftist Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Žižek. He is a great role model for me.

  Nadezhda Tolokonnikova

  Role Models, Philosopher, Leftists

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I think it's impossible to actually be a role model. I think on some level, you'll have your flaws or defects of character, regardless.

  Curtis Jackson

  Character, Thinking, Role Models

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• The role that theater has placed in enhancing consciousness and moving systems ahead. I think of what South African theater meant for the apartheid movement, for example. I think of what music has meant for so many social movements across time.

  Saul Williams

  Moving, Thinking, Example

  Source: www.mtv.com

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• It was reported that Guy Ritchie has cast his wife Madonna in a small walk-on role in his new movie, Revolver. Madonna will play the part of the woman who ruins the film.

  Tina Fey

  Funny, Humor, Play

  "Saturday Night Live (TV Series) Robert De Niro/Destiny's Child". www.imdb.com. 2004.

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• One of my biggest role models was David Beckham because of how he performed on and off the pitch.

  Rafael van der Vaart

  Role Models, Beckham, And Off

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• I think the biggest thing that motivates me when I'm choosing a part is a role that will help me continue to grow as a person and as an artist, and a role that will deepen my understanding of humanity, and my connection to it.

  Forest Whitaker

  Artist, Thinking, Understanding

  "Forest Whitaker shares wit, wisdom in discussing latest film". Interview with Kam Williams, www.baystatebanner.com. February 27, 2014.

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• I don't have any sort of calculus in choosing film roles.

  Jon Hamm

  Film, Calculus

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• When you put your costume on and you get your hair and your makeup done [for a role] and you stare in the mirror you feel like a different person.

  Michael Shannon

  Makeup, Mirrors, Hair

  Source: variety.com

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• Production of identity is a resistance element, an aggressive element. Both a refusal and an affirmation and an assertion, and certainly, we in Jamaica were talking about black art. And the idea that there is a role for art in the civil rights revolution and in the successor to the civil rights revolution.

  Mark McMorris

  Art, Ideas, Rights

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• The greatest number of drug addicts are to be found in Teheran and in Karachi, not in the West. Not in New York believe it or not. It's the same with the roles of slavery, racism and imperialism in the world. These institutions were present in other cultures. However, it was Western civilization which did something about slavery, about racism and voluntarily dissolved its empires leaving behind a very positive legacy of institutions not to mention buildings and roadways.

  Ibn Warraq

  New York, Believe, Other Cultures

  Source: www.ruthfullyyours.com

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• I have been doing this since I was nine years old. So whatever the role is, I am going to do the best I can do. The only thing I am concerned with is stepping on the stage in front of that camera and giving the best performance I know I can give, day in and day out as an actor.

  Darius McCrary

  Years, Giving, Actors

  "The Darius McCrary Interview- The Young and the Restless". Interview with Michael Fairman, michaelfairmansoaps.com. December 22, 2009.

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• I would instill in my team an attitude of role modeling. We run to teach other people the value of physical activity. In all things, be humble and appreciative; hurt no one; help anyone you can.

  Gerry Lindgren

  Running, Hurt, Attitude

  Interview with Mick Grant, John Molvar, www.youthrunner.com. January 12, 2011.

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