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I played a real nasty little girl but most of the roles I had up until then were very sweet and very nice.
No movie featuring either Harry Dean Stanton or M. Emmet Walsh in a supporting role can be altogether bad.
The first priority of any serious program against poverty is to strengthen the male role in poor families.
I'm quite a curious person. I don't mind being the one who doesn't know things, a role I often play in QI.
I'm not a snob. If I feel like there's a star that's the best person for that role, then that's who I get.
I tend to land roles that are somewhat villainous for some reason. Usually, people blame it on the accent.
The First Amendment has the same role in my life as a citizen and a writer as the sun has in our ecosystem.
To hurry through the rise and fall of a fine, full sentence is like defying the role of time in human life.
I have to be careful not to do so many comedy airhead roles from now on. I've turned down a couple already.
It's very, very rare to find five roles in one piece where we'd all jump at the chance to play any of them.
The artist's role is to invent rhythms and forms to reveal a deeper apprehension of reality for the viewer.
The role of inequity in society is grossly underestimated. Inequity is not good for your health, basically.
In fact, the socialization gives us the tools to fill our evolutionary roles. They are our building blocks.
Actually, my favourite roles have been in theatre, but on TV, my faves were Slap Maxwell and Larry Sanders.
Actors can become very involved in a role, but for a director or producer, that's your life for many years.
I've always thought Prince Charming in Cinderella was the most boring role; I'd rather be the Wicked Witch.
In a business society, the role of sex can be summed up in five pitiful little words. There is money in it.
A critic often has to play the role of coroner, dissecting a work to find out why it died (or never lived).
[Hillary Clinton] is hinted a little bit about what his[Bill Clinton] role might be, but just a little bit.
I don't choose characters according to looks. I'm comfortable doing both glamorous and non-glamorous roles.
My quest to find a great role for myself started long before this film [ "Our Brand Is Crisis"]came around.
If there's an interesting role that comes up as a great support role in a decent picture, then I'll do that.
I'd rather do theater and British films than move to L.A. in hopes of getting small roles in American films.
I've never seen a great actor do a major role that didn't cost a lot. They're sacrificial animals of a sort.
Girls are twice as likely as boys to avoid leadership roles for fear of being deemed 'bossy' by their peers.
I think anger does fuel a successful acting career. To play the great roles, you have to learn how to blaze.
I had to learn to get comfortable in a role of ambiguity where I had to seek out advisers and learn quickly.
As actors you're always going to take certain roles that are in your comfort zone and take ones that aren't.
It was an interesting way to come across in my first big role. To work with Robert DeNiro was very exciting.
Role models are fine. Roll models are better. Anyone who can do a forward roll is pretty awesome in my book.
I don't like piracy but if anybody's concerned about piracy, why don't they pay attention to our role in it?
The Supreme Court and courts in general have been usurping the role of the legislative branch of government.
There are some roles you just don't say 'no' to. Those compass points: you get them so rarely as an actress.
Without women taking an active role in Afghan society, rebuilding Afghanistan is going to be very difficult.
A leader's role is not to control people or stay on top of things, but rather to guide, energize and excite.
The idea of writer as sage is pretty much dead today. I would certainly feel very uncomfortable in the role.
It's a wonderful way to have a role on a series - you're not tied down totally and completely to a schedule.
When we met, my agenda was "Get Elle Fanning." I believe Elle's was "Get the role." But we didn't know that.
The three roles that I have always admired are Valjean, Phantom and Jesus and I've enjoyed them all so much.
It's not that I was not getting offers but I don't want to do petty and insignificant roles again and again.
I merely consider myself a father, and one role of a father is to provide financial resources for his family.
I've always chosen incredibly different roles and things that are quite offbeat. That way you're not limited.
We should all know this: that listening, not talking, is the gifted and great role, and the imaginative role.
When you act, you're always playing a version of yourself. You can't bring more to the role than what you are
One of the author's most ancient roles is to call the community to account for its hypocrisies and bad faith.
I feel very secure about the role of the actor in the future. They need us, because stories are about people.
I literally felt like a freak, which is another aspect of the role of Sally that I relate to: total outsider.
The Voice has always been an alternative paper. They have always understood that that was part of their role.
Canada is preparing to play a major role in the continued stability and security of Afghanistan through ISAF.
It is not the role of government to use the taxation and welfare system as a tool to level the playing field.