Roles Quotes - Page 27

• Everything has become so pop-rock oriented that finding a role for a soprano, and finding an audience for a soprano, is tricky. Unless you're dealing with a revival, which is why I do so many revivals - because my specific tone and vocal quality lends itself to that type of writing.

  Laura Benanti

  Writing, Rocks, Quality

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• There's no time in life to do all the roles I'd like to play.

  Bruce Dern

  Play

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I started to write songs. And I started to like what I was writing. I think it's a new way for me to express things that are closer to myself than when I play a role, because, of course, it's really not me. I'm finding a new way. I don't know what it's going to be. But I know that I will need to give it to people one day.

  Marion Cotillard

  Song, Writing, Thinking

  Interview with John Cameron Mitchell, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 20, 2014.

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• I think being an actor in general is acknowledging that we are constantly playing different roles, that we have all these different parts of ourselves and instead of pretending that you are just one thing, as an actor you get to admit that you've got all this stuff going on.

  David Hyde Pierce

  Thinking, Different, Actors

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• There are skeptics who do not come to their view because they have a source of income from carbon polluters. I don't mean to imply that they're all in that category at all. There are also those who are also not motivated by ideological resistance for any role of government. But I don't know of any arguments or any presenters of arguments that overturn the consensus that I think have gained any legitimacy.

  Al Gore

  Mean, Thinking, Government

  ""What in the Hell Do They Think Is Causing It?"". Interview with John Dickerson, www.slate.com. December 8, 2009.

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• I started doing roles and working with people that I really respected and became passionate about the art form of acting. And I'm still trying to figure it out. Still learning.

  Logan Lerman

  Art, People, Trying

  Interview with Michael Shannon, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 21, 2014.

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• There are these fantasies among people who watch movies where they're like, "Oh, there's a chemistry between them - something going on." And sometimes there is. But for me, it's more like, I go to work, I do a job, I play a role, and then I go home. I don't wear a cape at home. I'm not an invulnerable alien at home.

  Henry Cavill

  Jobs, Home, Play

  Interview with Elvis Mitchell, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 31, 2013.

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• I think I'm good with actors. I like directing actors. I also like to show up and just do an acting gig. Where I'm just a hired gun, I don't have to have an opinion on anything.I never got involved in all this stuff because I wanted to control stuff; I got involved in writing and producing because I wasn't getting interesting acting gigs. In a way I'm grateful that I didn't get interesting roles, because it made me pull my finger out and do some work.

  Steve Coogan

  Grateful, Writing, Gun

  Interview with Alfonso Cuarón, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 5, 2014.

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• When girls come up and say, "You're my role model," it's really flattering, but it's also really scary because I'm not perfect and I'm going to make mistakes.

  Ashley Greene

  Girl, Mistake, Role Models

  Interview with Michael Sheen, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 11, 2010.

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• I do just want to be an actor. The thing I get out of it is actually doing the job and inhabiting the world and the role - and I mean that genuinely. That's what I'm in it for.

  Andrew Garfield

  Jobs, Mean, Actors

  Interview with Terry Gilliam, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 17, 2010.

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• There was recently a story out that I turned down a role in a major franchise. That's not true. I refused to audition for it. I didn't get the part. I didn't even go in because I thought that the part was just a repackaged version of the parts I played before in these young adult films - sort of moody, masculine, but sensitive and all this kind of thing. It was just a repackaged, rather dull thing.

  Max Irons

  Auditions, Adults, Stories

  "Max irons assumes his throne". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 15, 2013.

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• I was not a vampire or werewolf fan at all. I'd never even heard of the series. I auditioned for the role, and as soon as I got it, I started reading the books. I'm not a reader, but I really did get hooked on them.

  Taylor Lautner

  Book, Reading, Vampire

  Interview with Michael Martin, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 6, 2009.

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• I think there's a lack of quality roles for women in comedies. Most actresses get cast as the "eye-roller" or "the serious one," while men in comedies get to do all the fun, silly stuff and muck around. Sometimes you just have to search hard for a role or create one for yourself.

  Isla Fisher

  Fun, Silly, Eye

  "Definitely Maybe - Isla Fisher interview". www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• In documentary, which is the only thing I'm really very familiar with, women are very easily relegated into a producer role.

  Liz W. Garcia

  Documentaries, Producers, Familiar

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• I think my role as a musician is much more reactionary than that of the creative personality type who locks himself in a tower and then comes out with Pet Sounds or something. I just respond to stimuli more than anything.

  Blake Mills

  Thinking, Personality, Creative

  "Contact: Guitar Wunderkind Blake Mills". Interview with Jacob Blickenstaff, www.motherjones.com. February 24, 2015.

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• Sometimes I think people are famous because they're themselves and they do a role and you see them do it.

  Kelli O'Hara

  Thinking, People, Sometimes

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• I got a phone call from George Miller [the director] asking me to play this role. We sat down and he showed me on his computer a documentary-type montage sequence of real penguins swimming, in an Esther Williams synchronized sort of way, and doing things I have never seen them do. Then he explained his vision of the film, asked me to read the script and to voice the character. I was cast a little bit later, and he let me do the singing as well!

  Brittany Murphy

  Real, Character, Swimming

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• Family and the natural surroundings played a big role in shaping my values.

  Gabrielle Reece

  Natural, Surroundings, Bigs

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• We've figured out our roles: I wanted someone to take care of the male roles - the big stuff - and Laird [Hamilton] does that very well. I'm here to be the mom and make it better for him, and that's my choice.

  Gabrielle Reece

  Mom, Choices, Care

  "Laird Hamilton and Gabby Reece for the Winter cover of Inspirato Magazine". Interview with Grant Davis in Malibu, California, shop.lairdhamilton.com. December 1, 2014.

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• The primary role of professional societies is the lobbying of the government for special advantage

  Richard Lindzen

  Government, Special, Lobbying

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• I would tell kids not be like me, but to try and be better than me. Because I always wanted to be better than everyone I was around. That's what drove me. I wanted to be better than my role models. I'm super competitive.

  Danica Patrick

  Kids, Role Models, Trying

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• All I've ever wanted to do is entertain people - make them laugh, think, smile, feel creeped out or scared; whatever it is. I'm getting the opportunity to do that in various roles.

  Eric Stonestreet

  Opportunity, Thinking, People

  Source: www.etonline.com

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• I've reprised roles in the theatre, which is somehow more accepted, and where one can automatically go deeper and further into the role.

  Cate Blanchett

  Theatre, Accepted, Deeper

  "Elizabeth: The Golden Age - Cate Blanchett interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• With a role like Hedda Gabler, which is incredibly complicated, you often feel that you haven't even scratched the surface the first time around, so you relish the opportunity to do it again, particularly with an ensemble of actors and the company we assembled. But when you do that in films you somehow have to make some attempt to uncross people's arms and you have to justify why you're doing it.

  Cate Blanchett

  Opportunity, People, Ensemble

  "Elizabeth: The Golden Age - Cate Blanchett interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• The role of a trainer or consultant is to empower the customer, not to make himself indispensable

  Bertrand Meyer

  Empowering, Indispensable, Trainers

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