Roles Quotes - Page 34

• I want roles that challenge people to question where they are in life.

  Maggie Gyllenhaal

  People, Challenges, Want

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The poet's function is to make his imagination . . . become the light in the mind of others. His role, in short, is to help people to live their lives.

  Wallace Stevens

  Light, People, Imagination

  Wallace Stevens (2011). “The Necessary Angel: Essays on Reality and the Imagination”, p.29, Vintage

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• Today we are living in an intellectual and technological paradise and a moral and social nightmare because the intellectual level of evolution, in its struggle to become free of the social level, has ignored the social level's role in keeping the biological level under control.

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Struggle, Intellectual, Levels

  Robert M. Pirsig (1991). “LILA An Inquriry into Morals”

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• It's funny because when I first met with Carmen, she said, "Have you ever thought about doing TV?" And I was like, "No, not really, but I'd audition for TV." And she said, "That's where the roles are for women now. That's where you can go and get a really great part."

  Eve Hewson

  Firsts, Auditions, Tvs

  Source: collider.com

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• I've always been a big fan of comedy and sketch comedy, and I like to laugh, but you can't just be funny. You do have to work at it, and you have to try to know what your role is and when you can insert humor, or when it's best not to.

  Colin Hanks

  Laughing, Trying, Fans

  "Colin Hanks Talks FARGO, Preparing for the Project, His Liberating Role, His Frustrating Character, Working in Calgary’s Cold, and Taking on Varied Roles". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. May 6, 2014.

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• Family is hugely important to me. Having kids is the best possible way to shake off any kind of darkness that might accompany a role that you're playing.

  Dan Stevens

  Kids, Darkness, Important

  Source: collider.com

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• He's [Captain Cold] not the big bad, but he's certainly playing a pretty big role. Especially in the early part of the season, he's Barry's main nemesis. There is a very definitive big bad in Season 1 that will become apparent as you watch the show. How's that for saying nothing?

  Andrew Kreisberg

  Watches, Saying Nothing, Captains

  Source: collider.com

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• One of the views of the [actor's] job is that whatever age you are, there's a role that's about who you are and where you are. There are parts for that age that you can bring things to.

  Clive Owen

  Jobs, Views, Age

  Source: www.gq.com

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• When you choose to do a role, I think you can either be that person or have the potential of being that person.

  Mia Maestro

  Thinking, Persons, You Choose

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• It's nice to be given a role where you can really find the strength from within, as a woman, and to be heard.

  Nicky Whelan

  Nice, Given, Heard

  Source: collider.com

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• It was a surprise to me and a happy accident that it was such a skill [natural falsetto] - a latent skill and that there was a way to exploit it. And it was a key to playing great role Frankie Valli in such a huge show.

  John Lloyd Young

  Keys, Skills, Way

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• Indeed, there were times when it was quite worrying that after hitting a certain age, you wouldn't hear from a lot of actresses anymore. But that's when women hit their stride and get a lot more interesting. You see that in roles for males but it's slowly getting better for women too.

  Christine Bottomley

  Interesting, Worry, Get Better

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• I've done a lot of things for a very young audience so far, such as The Sarah Jane Adventures. I'm tiny and petite and I look very young, so I tend to attract those kinds of roles.

  Yasmin Paige

  Adventure, Looks, Done

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• We all have those dreams of going back in time and seeing what it was like when our parents were younger. Maybe we don't all have that dream. I don't know. Getting to role play or step back to a different moment in time and see things through a different lens is something that resonated with me, for sure. We don't get to do that, generally, but when the right neurological disorder lines up with the right unstable woman, that moment presents itself. Getting to know where we come from is a really profound way of getting to look at who we are.

  Simon Helberg

  Dream, Play, Profound

  Source: collider.com

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• I'm someone who is quite uncomfortable if something is different. I like doing things I'm used to in everyday life. So, I always try to push myself outside of that when looking for roles, otherwise I would never do anything different.

  Yasmin Paige

  Everyday, Trying, Different

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• There's always room. That's what the directors usually want. They want the performer to bring themselves and give what they have to give for the role. The smart ones allow that to happen because then it becomes even more organic within the performer's imagination. It becomes even more real. It's not always a given in other films, but when Gunn works, and we all work together in a collaborative way like that, it becomes a given that you bring it. It becomes a lot of fun.

  Michael Rooker

  Fun, Real, Smart

  Source: collider.com

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• It's important to keep auditioning. If you're auditioning for something, you're auditioning for a role that people can't see you in and you need to convince them that you're the right person.

  Jared Harris

  People, Important, Needs

  Source: collider.com

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• The most important role of managers is to create environment in which people are passionately dedicated to winning in marketplace.

  Andy Grove

  Winning, People, Important

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• Oh, I haven't reached any peak. I hit the bottom in the '60s. When a certain actress undertook the leading role in a recent play of mine, she referred to me as "that old derelict." Not to my face, but behind my back.

  Tennessee Williams

  Play, Faces, Actresses

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• When you were growing up, your mom and dad told you to look both ways before crossing the street or not to get into a car with a stranger. It's the same with the internet. We have a big responsibility and a huge role in bringing all the stakeholders to the table - users, parents, educators, law enforcement, government organisations.

  Chris DeWolfe

  Mom, Growing Up, Dad

  "The man who put teenagers' lives online". Interview with Owen Gibson, www.theguardian.com. July 3, 2006.

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• I don't believe in being lazy, but I do think that this "big kid" thing may just be misinterpreting people who are taking advantage of all their opportunities and not tying themselves down to traditional gender roles or traditional life roles.

  Desiree Akhavan

  Believe, Kids, Opportunity

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• There aren't a lot of movies being made about women, period. Most of the time, the roles that are available are the sidekick, the friend, the girlfriend or the wife, and they just aren't that interesting.

  Zoe Kazan

  Girlfriend, Interesting, Wife

  Source: collider.com

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• I don't want to make a habit of just playing small roles, because I really enjoy the process of being part of a film and staying on it for the length of time that everybody else is as well.

  Guy Pearce

  Want, Film, Habit

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• If it's a great role or a great film, then you're happy to be a part of it.

  Guy Pearce

  Film, Great Film, Ifs

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• The role always attracts me. Sometimes I can read something and I can barely see the rest of the script.

  Brigid Brannagh

  Scripts, Sometimes, I Can Read

  Source: collider.com

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