Roles Quotes - Page 32

• I've worked for more than 50 years on the stage and I have played great, great, great roles, but I haven't played a great Shakespearean role because they're all male. I'm actually very proud of it.

  Ian McLeod

  Years, Males, Proud

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• Microsoft has one more shot at a role in smart phone software through its deployment on Nokia phones. Nokia is still the global market share leader in cell phones. Maybe it will work out, but this is hard to envision great success in the area coming on the heels of so much disappointment in missed opportunity in this important and visible category.

  David Einhorn

  Disappointment, Smart, Opportunity

  "Transcript of David Einhorn's Speech at the Ira Sohn Conference". www.businessinsider.com. June 2, 2011.

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• Mark Carwardine's role, essentially, was to be the one who knew what he was talking about. My role, and one for which I was entirely qualified, was to be an extremely ignorant non-zoologist to whom everything that happened would come as a complete surprise.

  Douglas Adams

  Talking, Ignorant, Zoologist

  Douglas Adams, Mark Carwardine (2011). “Last Chance to See”, p.10, Ballantine Books

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• You can't play everything you learn, anyway. You just try to bring it all on-board and use what's useful. In the end, it's your job to own the role and, in the end, you are playing certain aspects of your own self, even.

  Linus Roache

  Jobs, Self, Play

  "Interview: Linus Roache discusses his ‘Vikings’ King and his ‘Blacklist’ Kingmaker". Interview with Daniel Fienberg, uproxx.com. April 3, 2014.

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• At some point you realize, I have dreams. I would love to be working on wonderful roles, in wonderful films, with people I respect and admire. And that will come in its time. In the meantime, "Pay attention to your work. Get better at what you do." That's my job.

  Ann Dowd

  Dream, Jobs, People

  Source: deadline.com

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• Feminism is lesbian in the sense that lesbians have always hated the female role and coveted the male role. It is based on Marxist notions of "equality" and class conflict that have no relevance to mystical and biological phenomenon such as love.

  Henry Makow

  Class, Feminism, Female

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• I'm not a role model, nor have I ever tried to be a role model. The only thing about me as a role model is I've managed to stay here and be working and survive. For 40 years.

  Cher

  Years, Role Models, Models

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I think Pope Francis is our Pope Francis. I mean, the point of him is that he's a global leader, and he's trying, I think he's embracing that role.

  Naomi Oreskes

  Mean, Thinking, Leader

  Source: to.pbs.org

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• There's plenty of girlfriend roles out there. They've come my way, and many people have turned them down, and I think, "Oh maybe I could do something with this." It's interesting when you get those roles, which seem like nothing on the page, and you kind of subvert them. It's hard to say no.

  Cate Blanchett

  Girlfriend, Thinking, People

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• There's always male roles I want to play. I'm so annoyed when I watch movies and go, "That could have been played by a woman."

  Jennifer Lawrence

  Play, Annoyed, Males

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• I do think about The Flash often. I think that could be a really fun role to play at some point. That's right up my alley. I just want somebody to believe in me that I could be a Superhero.

  Zachary Levi

  Fun, Believe, Thinking

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• As far as comic books are concerned, I was always a Marvel guy for the most part, although I did follow DC a little. I don't know, honestly I'd just like to play whatever role [that] not just the studio, but the fans think I fit the best into. Because I think, especially in worlds like that, you've really got to do right by the fan base and stay in tune with what they are looking for and what they desire. I would just want to do right by them.

  Zachary Levi

  Book, Thinking, Play

  "Zach Levi on Being a Disney Hunk in ‘Tangled’, A Singer, A Superhero & ‘Chuck’". Interview with Roth Cornet, screenrant.com. November 18, 2010.

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• I personally think that Hollywood agencies ought to play a much better role in the development of Chinese films. Otherwise they're missing out on a lot of opportunities.

  Bruno Zheng Wu

  Opportunity, Thinking, Agency

  Source: deadline.com

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• I've dreamed landscapes for years, and my dreams play an enormous role in my work. In fact, when I first started doing landscapes I felt insecure about painting in this style, and the dreams were like positive omens for me, and I've done a few paintings that were exact replicas of images that came to me in dreams.

  April Gornik

  Dream, Insecure, Years

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• In some roles you do get into a mode of terror. It's always very frightening - the first audiences are frightening.

  Ian McLeod

  Firsts, Terror, Audience

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• Quite often I play roles that require quite a degree of emotional exposure, and they can be very difficult to do.

  Ian McLeod

  Emotional, Play, Degrees

  Source: www.sbs.com.au

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• There are so many actors that I've worked with that I'd like to work with again and there are so many girls. So often when you're up for a role, you're the only girl, and people think that a positive thing: "You get to be the only girl here!" That's not an exciting kind of idea to me.

  Emily Browning

  Girl, Thinking, Ideas

  "Emily Browning’s East End Girl". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 19, 2015.

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• As I got older, the role that I ended up (playing) on One Life to Live was a mother because, by then, I had a stable marriage - so I thought - and a beautiful son and mother roles became what I was doing well. I was still the Latina mom who very much related to people who love family. All those traditional values (were) coming back into my life.

  Patricia Mauceri

  Beautiful, Mom, Mother

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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• I've changed my ways - from what roles I was picking till now. I don't do straight "faith" movies. It's one thing I always tell people. I'm not a preacher, I'm a sinner. I'm still learning and falling in a journey that God has me on and doing the best I can.

  Drew Waters

  Fall, Journey, People

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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• When you say Sharia, even to a Muslim, it's understood in vastly different ways, in many ways it's part of an identity and most Muslims when they talk about wanting Sharia to play a role in their lives really mean it in so far as it talks about family law, you know, issues like, as I said marriage, divorce.

  Mark Durie

  Mean, Divorce, Law

  Source: www.sbs.com.au

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• I'm definitely a fan of sort of dramas, independent sort of social dramas where you play really challenging roles. Every actor wants to play those dark roles and it's definitely true for me and I'd love to kind of challenge myself in any way possible.

  Nathalie Emmanuel

  Drama, Independent, Dark

  Source: collider.com

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• People say, "How come you play bad guys so much?" And I say, "Well, have you seen many Asian good-guy roles?"

  Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa

  Play, People, Guy

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• ISIS has brought down a Russian airliner. ISIS has now attacked a western democracy in - in France. And we do have a role in this. Not solely ours, but we must work collaboratively with other nations.

  Martin O'Malley

  Isis, Democracy, France

  The CBS Democratic debate, www.washingtonpost.com. November 15, 2015.

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• Our role in the world is not to roam the globe looking for new dictators to topple. Our role in the world is to make ourselves a beacon of hope. Make ourselves stronger at home, but also our role in the world, yes, is also to confront evil when it rises.

  Martin O'Malley

  Home, Evil, Stronger

  The CBS Democratic debate, www.washingtonpost.com. November 15, 2015.

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• I had a caricature view of the guy in the beret with the big megaphone­­, but a movie director and writer was beyond my role of understanding.

  J. C. Chandor

  Views, Guy, Understanding

  "Rocking the Boat". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 16, 2013.

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